Rhythm and Blues <Tab/>What is Rhythm and Blues? Rhythm and Blues, or R and B, can be used to describe the stylish urban music that grew out of the urbanization of the blues. It is a form of popular music based on a mixture of blues and black folk music. Its melody is simple, but has strong repetitious rhythms. It has been influenced by jazz, jump music, as well as …showed first 75 words of 425 total…

…showed last 75 words of 425 total…band formations. The surfacing of rhythm and blues was influenced musically, by the blues. <Tab/>Some feel that rhythm and blues is a way to approach music, a philosophy. And some hold a wider view that rhythm and blues is an entire musical tradition that has rooted in the black experience of the post South war. R and B music is gaining more and more popularity as the years go by.