R&B is a genre that originated in the 1940s as a softer form of rhythm and blues music focused on African American styles. It emphasizes melody and vocals over beats. Popular modern R&B artists include Rihanna, Beyoncé, and The Weeknd. Their album covers often reveal personal aspects of themselves and stories behind their music. Hip hop originated in the 1970s and focuses more on beats than melody. Popular artists are Drake, Lil Wayne, and Jay-Z. Their album covers tend to have basic or minimal designs that represent aspects of the artists' lives.
Within this slideshow I will present my research into my chosen genre (R&B) and I will research into it’s conventions. Within this research I will analyse 2 music videos (By R&B artists)
Within this slideshow I will present my research into my chosen genre (R&B) and I will research into it’s conventions. Within this research I will analyse 2 music videos (By R&B artists)
Genre of AnalysisRhythm and Blues (vocal performance) Rhyt.docxhanneloremccaffery
Genre of Analysis
Rhythm and Blues (vocal performance)
Rhythm and Blues (r&b) which also overlaps as “Soul Music” started in the South during the 20th century in the late 1930s and early 1940s. It was created by and for African Americans. Gospel music is a heavy component of R&B, even ministers would have the members of the church “testify”. Testimonies are people speaking on something that happened in their life and God turned it around for the better. Most of the pioneers of R&B like Ray Charles, B.B. King, James Brown etc. were black children that grew up in church and branched off into R&B which was seen as unholy to religious folk. It was deemed secular because churchgoers felt as if the music was blasphemous. This act of testifying is the base of rhythm and blues lyrics. In R&B you release bottled up emotions, but through song you “testify” and tell personal experiences. R&B also came from African folk songs called “work songs”. Work songs use “call” and “response”, which has a leader who calls out a word or sentence and the group responds back. Work songs were therapeutic and helped the shift go by. Eventually, the “call” and “response” method of R&B, which involves a crowd turned into a solo performance. R&B lyrics, as I said earlier are heavily influenced and derived from gospel. The instrumentation comes from Blues and Jazz causing the instruments to mirror the words.
In 1947, Jerry Wexler, who was at the time a reporter for billboard, named “R&B” as a genre while editing the charts for the magazine. Wexler is credited for the term. Before the term Rhythm and Blues, all music made by blacks had an offensive category name called “race music”. R&B came from African American’s merging Gospel, Jazz, and Blues. In the 1950s, R&B was considered a lower class style of music compared to Jazz which was considered a high class form of black expression. R&B was apart of the social scene for black youth especially in clubs.
In classic R&B, the “Rhythm” is from the strong use of backbeat and four-beat measures. The “Blues” is about expressing how you feel, which was usually “blue” and “sad”. Why was the music blue and sad ? Racism was a huge issue, this affected the African American community. Also, this music’s rise was among the World War II era. People were being killed because of the war, experienced mental issues because of the trauma of war and hate crimes because of the color of their skin. Majority of the music reflected the times. Instruments like the electric guitar, piano, harmonica, bass, drums, blues harp, slide guitar, and xylophone were used but the main focus is the singer. The singer expresses how they are feeling and set the tone of the song. There are many instrumentals of rhythm and blues but most of the time they are imitating a singer’s voice.
Ray Charles is one of the key players in R&B music. In several songs he collided gospel and blues together to make masterpieces. Evident in “I Got A Woman” (1954), in 1959 “What’d ...
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2. R&B GENRE
The R&B Genre is similar to the Hip Hop genre however, as R&B stands
for rhythm and blues, it is more of a soft genre. Artists such as Rihanna
and Ne-Yo are examples of R&B artists.
R&B was originated in the 1940’s and is a genre of popular African-
American music. Rhythm and Blues music used to be called Race music
which then people got offended by because of cultural and racial issues
and focused on colour rather than the genre so it then got changed to
R&B.
The biggest R&B stars today are Rihanna, Beyonce, The Weeknd John
Legend and there is so much more.
3. Examples of R&B genre album covers
The most recent album cover by Beyonce is of herself, However her face
doesn’t show which shows that there is something hidden about her. This is
also reinforced in her songs in the album, for example, in sorry, where she got
cheated on and therefore, it shows that it is a personal album and she reveals
things about herself, although they are not true.
Similarly in Rihanna’s most recent album Anti, she reveals things about
herself. Although it is young Rihanna in the album cover, she has a crown
which symbolises her personality. Rihanna herself claims, that the crown is a
metaphor to appreciate small things in life and the balloon is lighter than air
and is a metaphor for escaping reality.
This shows that R&B artists have meaningful stories behind their music most
of the time, as this might not always be the case.
4. HIP-HOP GENRE
The hip-hop genre is more about the beats. Artists like Drake, Lil Wayne
and and Jay-Z are big examples of Hip-Hop stars.
The hip-hop genre was formed in the United States in the 1970’s even
though it was mainly originated in Jamaica and mainly involves rhythmic
styles such as rapping.
One of the main artists who had made Hip-Hop famous was Tupac Shakur
and is now most-known by 50-Cent, Jay Z, Eminem, Kanye West and
Black Eyed-Peas
5. Examples of Hip-Hop genre album covers.
Kanye West’s most recent album The Life of Pablo has a basic album
cover with the repetition of ‘THE LIFE OF PABLO’ all over it. This already
shows that Kanye West’s album is all about his life, such as family, as
there is also an image of his family on his cover which shows how much
they mean to him
Similarly, one of Drake’s albums, ‘IF YOURE READING THIS ITS TOO
LATE’ is also a basic album cover, black and white with the title written
messy and a little image of a pair of hands.
According to the research I have done, most hip-hop artists are seen to be
male and a distinctive style they use for their album covers are basic.
