rhythm and blues

English

Etymology

From early 1940s, replacing earlier race music.

Noun

rhythm and blues

1. (music) A style of music combining elements of jazz and blues, with syncopated rhythms and a strong backbeat, originating among African Americans in the 1940s.

   Synonym: R & B

2. (Cockney rhyming slang) shoes

Derived terms

• contemporary R&B

Translations

rhythm and blues

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 節奏布魯斯／节奏布鲁斯 (zh) (jiézòu bùlǔsī)

• Esperanto: ritmenbluso
• Finnish: rhythm and blues
• Georgian: რიტმ-ენდ-ბლუზი (riṭm-end-bluzi)
• German: Rhythm and Blues n
• Japanese: リズム・アンド・ブルース (ja) (rizumu-ando-burūsu)
• Korean: 리듬 앤 블루스 (rideum aen beulluseu)
• Maori: puoro ūngeri kōrangaranga
• Russian: ритм-энд-блю́з (ru) m (ritm-end-bljúz), ритм-н-блю́з (ru) m (ritm-n-bljúz)
• Swedish: rhythm and blues c

See also

• race music

Further reading

• rhythm and blues on Wikipedia.Wikipedia