Prior to the emergence of rhythm & blues as a musical genre in the 1940s, "race music" and "race records" were terms used to categorize practically all types of African-American music. Race records …

Race records is a term for 78-rpm phonograph records marketed to African Americans between the 1920s and 1940s. [1] . They primarily contained race music, comprising various African-American …

Race music is a term that was coined in the early 20th century, predominantly in the United States, to categorize and market music produced by African American artists. The genre encompassed a wide …

Race records, sound recordings of the early 20th century that were made exclusively by and for African Americans. The term was used especially from the 1920s to the 1940s to indicate the audience for …

May 21, 2020 · Most twentieth-century white, popular music—especially rock ‘n’ roll and country—has roots in race music, in particular jazz, swing, and blues. The terms “race music” and “race records” …

Aug 7, 2018 · “Race” media—music, films, and publications—was created by and for African-Americans, and white audiences seldom knew or cared about these creative art forms. Record Rendezvous in …

The term "rhythm and blues," often called "R&B," originated in the 1940s when it replaced "race music" as a general marketing term for all African American music, though it usually referred only to secular, …

Multilayered and masterfully written, Race Music provides a dynamic framework for rethinking the many facets of African American music and the ethnocentric energy that infused its creation.

Multilayered and masterfully written, Race Music provides a dynamic framework for rethinking the many facets of African American music and the ethnocentric energy that infused its creation.

Ramsey provides vivid glimpses of the careers of Dinah Washington, Louis Jordan, Dizzy Gillespie, Cootie Williams, and Mahalia Jackson, among others, to show how the social changes of the 1940s …