RB 美国音乐历史培训资料.ppt

RB RB=rhythm and blues 节奏极强的一种美国音乐 RB的全名是Rhythm Blues，一般译作节奏怨曲。广义上，RB可视为“黑人的流行音乐”，它源於黑人的Blues音乐，是现今西行流行来和摇滚来的基础，Billboard杂志曾介定RB为所有黑人音乐，除了Jazz和Blues之外，都可列作RB，可见RB的范围是多么的广泛。近年黑人音乐圈大为盛行的Hip-Hop和RAP都源於 RB，并且同时保存着不少RB成分。 English introduction: Rhythm and blues (also known as RB, RnB or RnB) is the name given to a wide-ranging genre of popular music, originally created by African Americans in the late 1940s but which has subsequently had a number of shifts of meaning. The term was originally used by record companies to refer to recordings bought predominantly by African Americans, at a time when urbane, rocking, jazz based music with a heavy, insistent beat was becoming more popular. After this style of music contributed substantially to the development of rock and roll, the term RB was then used from the 1960s particularly by white groups to refer to musical styles which developed from and incorporated electric blues, as well as gospel and soul music. By the 1970s, the term rhythm and blues was being used as a blanket term to describe soul and funk. Since the 1990s, the term Contemporary RB is now mainly used to refer to a modern version of soul and funk-influenced pop music. Late 1940s In 1948, RCA Victor was marketing black music under the name Blues and Rhythm. In that year, Louis Jordan dominated the top five listings of the RB charts with three songs, and two of the top five songs were based on the boogie-woogie rhythms that had come to prominence during the 1940s.[13] Jordans band, the Tympany Five (formed in 1938), consisted of him on saxophone and vocals, along with musicians on trumpet, tenor saxophone, piano, bass and drums. Lawrence Cohn described the music as grittier than his boogie-era jazz-tinged blues.Robert Palmer described it as urbane, rocking, jazz based music with a heavy, insistent beat.Jordans cool music, along with that of Big Joe Turner, Roy Brown, Billy Wright, and Wynonie Harris, is now also referred to as jump blues.