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<p><b>Rhythm and blues</b>, frequently abbreviated as <b>R&B</b> or <b>R'n'B</b>, is a genre of <a href="page.php?w=popular_music">popular music</a> that originated within <a href="page.php?w=African_American">African American</a> communities in the 1940s. The term was originally used by record companies to describe recordings marketed predominantly to African Americans, at a time when "rocking, <a href="page.php?w=jazz">jazz</a> based music&nbsp;... [with a] heavy, insistent beat" was starting to become more popular.In the commercial rhythm and</p><p>
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