Bashment Music

Bashment may refer to:

• another name for dancehall, a type of Jamaican popular music which developed around 1979
• a term meaning 'party' in Jamaica, with Sound System that was developed in the late 1940's, also sometimes used to denote a particularly good party
• "Bashment Boogie," a song by Roots Manuva, produced by Lotek from his 2001 album Run Come Save Me
• Bashment, Play by British playwright, Rikki Beadle-Blair, exploring the controversy around dancehall reggae music and the consequences of homophobic lyrics

R&B Music Genre

Rhythm and blues, often known as R&B, is a genre of popular African American music that originated in the 1940s. The term was originally used by record companies to describe recordings marketed mostly to urban African Americans, at a time when "urbane, rocking, jazz based music with a heavy, insistent beat" was becoming more popular.

From the early 1950s, the term rhythm and blues was frequently applied to blues records. Starting in the 1950s, after this style of music contributed to the development of rock and roll, the term "R&B" became used to refer to music styles that developed from and incorporated electric blues, as well as gospel and soul music. By the 1970s, rhythm and blues was used as a blanket term for soul and funk. In the 1980s, a newer style of R&B developed, becoming known as "Contemporary R&B".