We turn our attention to Rhythm and Blues. In the late forties, white record companies labeled commercial black music 'race music'. Eventually, Jerry Wexler, then working at Millboard magazine as a reporter, thought of the phrase, 'rhythm and blues' and it caught on. Before long, numerous other descriptions appeared, Motown, the Philadelphia sound, Soul, but all had in common that the music expressed the rising aspirations of the ghetto.
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