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R&B first emerged as a defined, commercially prominent genre out of African American creative communities in the mid-20th century United States, built on core foundations of blues, jazz, and gospel that shaped its earliest thematic and structural identities. What began as a regional sound quickly expanded beyond local audiences, spreading across the United States to become a staple of national radio and popular culture by the 1950s, before crossing international borders to reach creators and listeners across every inhabited continent. This global spread transformed R&B from a single regional genre into a flexible, adaptable framework that creators from vastly different cultural contexts could reimagine to fit their own creative impulses, local artistic traditions, and personal storytelling needs.
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