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early 1940's by slaves in the south. This phenomenon brought about new music,
fashion, and dance styles. The white people thought of R&B as black music during
the 1940's and early 50's. It has the single greatest influence on music worldwide for
most of the 20th century. Its influence can be traced in forms of rock music, country,
gospel, jazz even Nigerian Juju -a style of dance music. So it included many different
musicstyles and because of that it likes many different humangroups. Rhythm and
Blues was started in the South, but later moved to Midwest, Northeast, and West
Coast cities due to the shift in American demographics, after World War II. One of two
significant developments, which occurred that had an effect on R&B was the
invention of the Magnetic Tape, the other was the formation of broadcasting
companies. Over the decades, thanks to different artists and their styles, R&B has
evolved into what it is today