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Jerry Wexler, who invented the term rhythm & blues as a Billboard journalist in the late 1940s and went on to cultivate the careers of Ray Charles, Aretha Franklin and Led Zeppelin as a partner at Atlantic Records, died Friday at his home in Siesta Key, Fla. He was 91.
The term, Soul, was adopted to describe Black popular music as it evolved from the 1950s into the socially conscious 1960s, and through to the early 1970s. There are those who saw it as simply a new term for Rhythm and Blues but this interpretation does miss one of the most important facets of the soul era.owever, it's clear that R&B has its origins in the secular folk music of Black American culture-the Blues. From its origin in the South, during the early 20th century, the Bluesâ simple but expressive forms had become, by the 1960s, one of the most important influences on the development of popular American music.