What is the difference between Rhythm and Blues today and History of Rhythm and Blues before (1900’s) HELP!?

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1. Pookie says:

   January 20, 2010 at 4:19 am

   Rhythm and blues (also known as R&B) is the name given to a wide-ranging genre of popular music first created by African Americans in the late 1940s and early 1950s. (Prior to this, in the late 1800’s to early 1900’s, this type of music was just known as the blues). The term was originally used by record companies to refer to recordings bought predominantly by African Americans.

   The term has subsequently had a number of shifts in meaning. Starting in the 1960s, after this style of music contributed to the development of rock and roll, the term R&B became used – particularly by white groups — to refer to music styles that 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 R&B is now mainly used to refer to a modern version of soul and funk-influenced pop music.
2. hynroc says:

   January 20, 2010 at 4:25 am

   Before the 1900s??? Dude, R&B was founded until the late 40s early 50s.