Contemporary R&B
music genre that combines elements of rhythm and blues, pop, soul, funk, hip hop, and electronic music
Contemporary R&B is a music genre of R&B. It mixes rhythm and blues, soul, funk, pop, hip hop, electronic and dance. Contemporary R&B is currently a dominant music genre for the Top 40 radios. Artists of this type of music includes, Beyoncé, Michael Jackson, Mariah Carey, Stevie Wonder, and Whitney Houston. Contemporary R&B became a popular music genre after the disco era in the 1980s. Contemporary R&B is an African American type of music, however, there has been other artists who are not African American that record contemporary R&B.
| Contemporary R&B | |
|---|---|
| Stylistic origins | Rhythm and blues, soul, funk, pop, hip hop, electronic, dance |
| Cultural origins | Early 1970s North America; New York City, Los Angeles, Atlanta, Chicago, Houston, Montreal, Toronto |
| Typical instruments | Synthesizers, keyboard, drum machine, vocals, talkbox piano |
| Mainstream popularity | Moderate since 1980s worldwide, mainstream in the 1990s and 2000s especially in the United States, declining in early 2010s |
| Subgenres | |
| Hip hop soul - Neo soul - G-funk - Nu-funk | |
| Fusion genres | |
| Quiet storm - New jack swing – 2-step – Grime - G-funk – Crunk&B – Snap&B - PBR&B - Zouk R&B | |
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