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Rhythm & Blues

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A few of the words

BACKBEAT
The heavy accent on beats two and four is the engine of R&B — the pulse that made it impossible to stay still.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
FALSETTO
Singers like Jackie Wilson could leap into a soaring falsetto mid-phrase, turning a line of lyric into something almost otherworldly.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
GOSPEL
Many of the greatest R&B artists — Ray Charles, Sam Cooke — came directly out of gospel, and the music never let go of those roots.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
HOLLER
The field holler is one of the oldest African American vocal traditions, a raw, free-form cry that lives at the very heart of the blues.Find this word in the grid to read its note.

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Rhythm & blues word search — free and large-print — where the backbeat rolls deep, the horns cry out, and every note carries the weight of something real.

About Music & Film

Rhythm and blues grew from the church, the field holler, and the Saturday-night juke joint — a music that wore its heart on its sleeve and refused to be quiet. By the late 1940s the term was being used by Billboard to describe a sound that fused gospel fervor with swinging, propulsive grooves, giving the world a heartbeat it could feel in its chest before it ever reached the ear. The great voices — tenors who could shake a room, belters who could break one — built a tradition of pure, unguarded emotion that would course through every genre that followed.

How to play

  1. 1
    Find a word from the list.Press the first letter and drag to the last — across, down or diagonally, forwards or back. Or tap the first letter, then the last.
  2. 2
    It stays marked.Found words get a soft teal line through them, on the grid and in the list.
  3. 3
    Make it comfortable.Use the A / A+ / A++ size control any time, or pinch the grid for a closer look.

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