What is the difference between R&B and Rock and Roll?

Oversimplified difference:



R%26amp;B: soul music, mostly performed by blacks.

R%26amp;R: mostly performed by whites.What is the difference between R%26amp;B and Rock and Roll?
rock %26amp; roll is highly involved into rockabilly music, so if has to do with country music fused with rock, and the r%26amp;b is often related to blues and it's melancholic, so there are two very different genres in the result, odelay!!What is the difference between R%26amp;B and Rock and Roll?
R%26amp;R started as R%26amp;B in latee 40's,early 50's. As R%26amp;B generally meant popular black music,which included nearly all genres apart from gospel and jazz,a new name was needed,alan freed used R%26amp;R in 51 for a particular style of black R%26amp;B. Songs like.

The record that is generally noted as first R%26amp;R hit..Rocket88 by Jackie Brenston ( part of Ike Turners band) was R%26amp;B. Rock around the clock. Hound Dog were originaly by black artists. The likes of Chuck Berry could be classed as both.

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