Few musicologists have taken a genre’s pulse as literally as Richard J. Ripani, who has counted the number of beats per minute in a half-century of rhythm-and-blues hits, from the Johnny Otis ...

The 1950s brings to mind poodle skirts, sock hops, and drive-in movies. I Love Lucy, The Honeymooners, and Leave It to Beaver were popular television shows, and Marilyn Monroe, Frank Sinatra, and ...

Ruth Brown, the pioneering singer whose 1950s hits including “Teardrops From My Eyes” and “(Mama) He Treats Your Daughter Mean” helped establish both the rhythm-and-blues form and Atlantic Records as ...

Revisionism alert: The propulsive 2 and 4 of rock ‘n’ roll-rhythm and blues wasn’t the only big beat shaking America from the doldrums of the late 1950s, and these recent reissues are the forceful ...

You can’t talk about music from this era without including Little Richard, a famed artist from Macon, Georgia. The track, "Tutti Frutti," was written by Richard and Dorothy LaBostrie and recorded in ...

Rock & Roll and Country Music Hall of Fame's, but where is the R&B Hall of Fame 2013 the Inaugural R&B Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony was hosted, 12 induction ceremonies, later and with 300 ...