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western Africa. So music from Western Africa had a deep effect on the original Soul song. Ray Charles, the first Spiritual song artist combining gospel with R&B, developed this kind of powerful music style. The novel music style sucked the core of gospel, which was the production of religious music both from western African and American, and at the same time it also possessed the feature of R&B. These idiosyncrasies made Spiritual song powerful and impressive, which can touch the audiences’ soul. So it was also called Soul song. The full name of R&B was Rhythm and Blues, and it merged urban Blues and big—band sounds. It was different from Blues in that it put stress on the sorrowful feelings. It paid more attention to the rhythm, featuring huge rhythm units smashing away behind screaming blues singers. R&B, which came from Blues and was regarded as one of the popular music of Afro-Americans, was also the origin of the current pop music Rock. In recent years, the famous music style—Hip-Hop and Rap originated from R&B, and kept some features of it. As for the origin of R&B, it could be traced back to the middle time of the 1940s. At that time, it was called Jump Blues. Jump Blues, which absorbed the performance style of horn-driven lineup and swing rhythm of Jazz, and also combined riff and string accompaniment of Blues, was a new style, and also could be considered as the product of Rhythm Jazz and Blues. Although Jump Blues sucked the features of Blues in a great degree, Rhythm Jazz was the dominant style, which formed its final style. Compared with Jazz, Jump Blues put more emphasis on the faster rhythm and more raucous voice. As to the instruments, the performance of piano became more intense, and the performance of sax became sharper. Originally, both the performers and the audiences were only black people, so Jump Blues was labeled as a pure black American music. But with the appearance of the important singer—Louis Jordan, whose lyrics were so humorous that it was fit for dance, the status of Jump Blues changed. More and more white people especially the youth were fond of it. And Jump Blues became all-pervading. In the 1950s, Jump Blues broke the limit of different races, owing to the great efforts made by those top musicians, which meant Jump Blues was no longer only the music of Afro-Americans. More white musicians and audiences took part in it. Thus, Jump Blues had “R & B” as its new name. Since then it held the champion in the Billboard, and kept the predominance for a long time, even now it was also one of the dominant styles in the pop music circles. Today, R&B becomes the symbol of black people’s pop music, though it was a specific music style that is different from Rap, Soul and Hip-Hop music. The early Rock & Roll was the extension of country music and western music, and was based on R&B. So, R&B was not only the significant transitional music style between Blues and Rock & Roll, but also the main embranchment of Blues and Spiritual song. Hip-Hop, which was believed to have sprung from New York City in 1970s, specifically from the club DJs of the era, was a type of popular culture. The term appeared in the lyrics of some of the earliest rap hits, including “Rapper’s Delight (1979)” by the Sugarhill Gang. It included music, dance styles, graffiti art and fashion, hitting in modern American, and then all over the world. Break-dance became a very popular form of Hip-Hop dance in the 1980s. The formation of Hip-Hop had so