Facts About Urban Music

URBAN MUSIC consists of many different categorises, however the main one is R&B MUSIC, which I will include in my magazine to appeal to my target audience. c

R&B stands for Rhythm and blues music.

History:

Rhythm & blues music was one of the most popular genres of music in the African-American community from the 1940s to the 1960s. This was because of the huge job growth that took place during World War II, a younger black audience rapidly moved from rural towns to urban communities. In 1949, Billboard magazine renamed its "race records" chart to "rhythm and blues," as the social and economic landscape began to change for African-Americans. From then on, this music continued to develop into one of the most largest music industries in the world. However, URBAN music we have to day differs from the original in many ways. The modern day music has a much more upbeat rhythm including mixtures of singing and rapping within

the same song, where as originally, URBAN music mainly consisted of music genres such as REGGAE.

Consequently,

R&B music broke away from the more traditional "big band formula" of earlier years, and

R&B artists began performing in small, musical combos. The music tended to emphasize blues-style vocals and song structures. Like in the bands of the big band era, saxophone and piano were still present, but electric guitar and bass started to add a different power and electricity to the music, which translated well to radio and jukebox play.