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The 56 pages that link to Rhythm and blues, each with the reason it gives.

• BluesRelated: Rhythm and blues developed partly from blues performance and song practices.

• Rock musicRelated: Its vocal styles, rhythms, and electric bands supplied central ingredients of early rock.

• Rock and rollRelated: Its vocal styles, rhythms, and electric instrumentation supplied much of rock and roll’s foundation.

• Twelve-bar bluesRelated: Its early styles frequently used blues-based chord cycles, including twelve-bar forms.

• RockabillyRelated: Its strong backbeat and vocal intensity helped give rockabilly its rhythmic force.

• American popular musicRelated: It carried Black musical innovations into a major postwar commercial genre.

• MelismaRelated: Contemporary R&B often features elaborate melismatic vocal runs.

• BackbeatRelated: Its recordings helped popularize the backbeat before and alongside rock and roll.

• Hard bopRelated: Its grooves and popular-music energy fed hard bop’s rhythmic feel.

• Jimi HendrixRelated: Hendrix developed as a working musician in rhythm-and-blues bands.

• Ray CharlesRelated: Its rhythms and blues forms supplied much of Charles’s musical foundation.

• Motown SoundRelated: Motown drew on its grooves and vocal traditions while refining them for pop audiences.

• The Apollo TheaterRelated: R&B performers and styles have featured prominently in the Apollo’s stage history.

• MerseybeatRelated: American rhythm and blues records shaped the repertoire and rhythmic feel of Liverpool groups.

• The Blues BrothersRelated: Its grooves and arrangements underpin much of the group’s sound.

• Alan FreedRelated: Freed’s broadcasts introduced many white listeners to this music.

• Billy EckstineRelated: Eckstine’s career bridged jazz, pop, and the market later categorized as rhythm and blues.

• Jay ChouRelated: R&B harmony and vocal phrasing inform many of Chou’s ballads and grooves.

• Rock bandRelated: Its amplified ensembles and rhythmic drive influenced rock’s early instrumentation.

• Sister Rosetta TharpeRelated: Its rhythmic drive and blues vocabulary met gospel in Tharpe’s performances.

• The Everly BrothersRelated: Its rhythmic energy helped shape the rock and roll context in which the duo emerged.

• Wanda JacksonRelated: Its rhythmic energy was one ingredient in the rock and roll sound Jackson adopted.

• Andraé CrouchRelated: Its grooves and instrumentation helped inform Crouch’s contemporary gospel arrangements.

• Kim Gun-moRelated: R&B vocal phrasing and rhythms inform parts of the Korean pop landscape surrounding his work.