GENRE RESEARCH

By Chloe, Clara and Ashleigh.

OUR GENRE.. We decided to create an R&B magazine.

We chose this genre as it’s very popular with our generation as we can relate to the lyrics and we listen to this type of music which helps as it’s useful to have knowledge for the topic. Also when we were researching we found that most music magazines genre was R&B which would make the practical task easier for us.

R&B

Rhythm and blues, often abbreviated to R&B and RnB, is a genre of popular African-American music that originated in the 1940s. The term was originally used by record companies to describe recordings to urban African Americans, at a time when "urbane, rocking, jazz based music with a heavy, insistent beat" was becoming more popular. By the 1970s the term ‘rhythem and blues’ was being used as a blanket term to describe soul and funk.

COMPARINGPop R&B

Popular music which is heard on the ‘top 20’s’.Tempo is faster.Features a noticeable rhythmic element, melodies and hooks, a mainstream style and a conventional structure.Target audience: Less specific as this genre is heard on the radio a lot

Rhythm and blues, not rap, not hip-hop.Tempo is more slow.Target audience: teenagers and older as the topics are quite deep and some of the lyrics may be explicit.

I am pleased and confident with our genre as we have enough knowledge already as we listen too this music, also I like how the R&B magazine covers are in a close up to contrast with their rap image as it makes them look vulnerable.