The term "urban contemporary" is heavily associated with African-American music, particularly for Contemporary R&B in African-American Afro beat contexts. Urban contemporary is a music radio format. The term was coined by New York DJ Frankie Crocker in the mid-1970s.
Urban contemporary radio stations feature a playlist made up entirely of hip hop, R&B, grime, electronic dance music such as dubstep, UK garage and drum and bass (often with hip hop vocalists or rappers), and Caribbean music such as reggae, dancehall, reggaeton, zouk, bouyon, and sometimes Soca.
(In Toronto, London, new York city, Boston and Miami). Urban contemporary was developed through the characteristics of genres such as R&B and soul.
Virtually all Urban contemporary formatted radio stations are located in cities that have sizeable African-American populations, such as New York City, Atlanta, Chicago, Washington, D.C., Philadelphia, Detroit, Cleveland, Cincinnati, Dallas, Houston, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Baltimore, Memphis, Boston, New Orleans, Oklahoma City, and Charlotte.
For the Latinos, the music is more Latin urban, such as Reggaeton, Latin hip hop, or bachata. Their playlists are dominated by singles by top-selling hip hop and R&B performers.
On occasion, an urban contemporary station will play classic soul songs from the '70s and early '80s to satisfy the earlier end of the genre.
Most Urban formatted stations such as KJLH, KPRS, KMEL, KDAY, and WVEE will play gospel music or urban contemporary gospel music on Sundays.
Mainstream urban is a branch of urban contemporary, and rhythmic contemporary is also a branch.
Article taken from Wikipedia.org
The drum beating or the type of pop music or urban music which derives it's inspiration and instrumental structure from the mother land of Africa.The type of music which is inspired by the rhythmic drum beating or music structure, originating it's roots from Africa.
Afro beat or rhythmic type of music has emerged forth from the different parts of the world where the black race or descendants of Africa have been scattered.
In places like North America (USA), the art of Hip hop, Jazz, RMB music was brought into existence by the African Americans.
In different places where the Africans dwelt after their scattering through slave trade, in that same location or part of the world, there emerged forth a type of music genre which suited the social life experience that they lived in.
There are different types of music genre which have been inspired by the rhythm of Afro (African) beat: music genre like: dancehall, Salsa, Samba, Reggae, Jazz, Hip hop, RMB, funk, merenque music, Rock n roll, Dancehall, etc.
The word Afro beat was coined by an African artiste called Kuti from Nigeria.
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