R&B Music

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Codes and convention

• They all have either one main artist or one group on the font cover.• They are all in front of the masthead, and the masthead is always at

the top.• Usually the artists tend to be wearing skimpy clothing, so either a

really tight or short dress or sometimes even a bikini. If it’s a guy they tend to either be topless or are dressed smart but in a more casual way.

• They never seem to have any smaller images, and a lot of them don’t have many sub-lines

• The main colours seem to be: red, black, white and yellow

It was originally created by African-Americans in the 1940’s for the migrators into Chicago, Detroit, LA and New york.

However a new variation of R&b called contempary r&B came around in the 1980’s after the fall of Disco. It combines R&B, contempary, hip hop and other urban genres.

Contempary R&B is popularised by Michael Jackson, Whitney Houston, Stevie Wonder etc, so there is a wide audience. Traditional R&B was made popular by Elvis and Jimmy Witherspoon.

The reasons for such a wide audience is that there is such a wide range of articts

Audience