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artists and charts from music references with attribution, and distinguish R&B from blues, soul and contemporary R&B as chart categories.", "definition": "A genre of African American popular music that emerged in the 1940s from jazz, blues and gospel, named by Billboard in 1949 to replace the term race music, encompassing early R&B and jump blues, doo-wop vocal groups, soul, funk and disco-funk, Latin boogaloo and Latin disco crossovers, and later contemporary R&B, with Christian R&B as a gospel-oriented branch; rhythm and blues shaped rock and roll, soul and hip hop and remains a major chart category.", "what_it_is_for": "Not applicable; a music genre.", "affordances": [ "explain the genre and styles", "relay history and artists", "relay chart categories", "distinguish related genres" ], "distinguishing_features": [ "Blues and gospel roots", "Strong rhythm and vocals", "Chart category", "Wide stylistic range" ], "appearance": "Not a visible object; recordings and performances.", 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R&B charts", "Copyright and licensing for recordings", "Award categories such as Grammy R&B awards" ], "failure_modes_and_hazards": [ "Confusing historical R&B with contemporary R&B", "Erasing the genre origins in African American communities", "Stale chart and artist information" ], "in_scope": [], "out_of_scope": [], "characteristics": [] }, "sources": [], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "understand", "name": "Understand", "description": "What R&B is.", "rationale": "Definition.", "layers": [ { "id": "definition", "name": "Definition", "description": "Definition and origins.", "findings": [ { "id": "definition-finding", "name": "Definition", "description": "Definition.", "questions": [ { "text": "What is rhythm and blues, and how did it emerge from jazz, blues and gospel?", "kind": "definition" }, { "text": "Is the question about historical R&B, contemporary R&B or a related genre?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] }, { "id": "styles", "name": "Styles", "description": "Styles.", "findings": [ { "id": "styles-finding", "name": "Styles", "description": "Styles.", "questions": [ { "text": "What styles fall under R&B, from doo-wop and soul to boogaloo, disco-funk and Christian R&B?", "kind": "definition" }, { "text": "Which entry fits the specific style?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "history", "name": "History", "description": "History.", "rationale": "Attribution.", "layers": [ { "id": "eras", "name": "Eras", "description": "Eras.", "findings": [ { "id": "eras-finding", "name": "Eras", "description": "Eras.", "questions": [ { "text": "How did R&B develop by decade, as music historians describe?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "text": "Which sources are cited?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] }, { "id": "artists", "name": "Artists", "description": "Artists.", "findings": [ { "id": "artists-finding", "name": "Artists", "description": "Artists.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which artists and labels defined R&B in each era?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "text": "Which entry fits the specific artist?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "industry", "name": "Industry", "description": "Charts and industry.", "rationale": "Sources.", "layers": [ { "id": "charts", "name": "Charts", "description": "Charts.", "findings": [ { "id": "charts-finding", "name": "Charts", "description": "Charts.", "questions": [ { "text": "How have R&B charts and the category itself changed since 1949?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "text": "Which references are standard?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] }, { "id": "awards", "name": "Awards", "description": "Awards.", "findings": [ { "id": "awards-finding", "name": "Awards", "description": "Awards.", "questions": [ { "text": "What awards recognise R&B, and how are they judged?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "text": "Which entry fits the specific award?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "context", "name": "Context", "description": "Influence and culture.", "rationale": "Context.", "layers": [ { "id": "influence", "name": "Influence", "description": "Influence.", "findings": [ { "id": "influence-finding", "name": "Influence", "description": "Influence.", "questions": [ { "text": "How did R&B shape rock and roll, soul, hip hop and global pop?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "text": "Which entry fits the influence of R&B?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] }, { "id": "culture", "name": "Culture", "description": "Culture and society.", "findings": [ { "id": "culture-finding", "name": "Culture", "description": "Culture.", "questions": [ { "text": "How does R&B relate to African American history, race and the music industry, with attribution?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "text": "Is the presentation respectful and attributed?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "openQuestions": [ "Should doo-wop and contemporary R&B be separate primary entries?", "How should music references be linked?", "The registry entry has merged aliases naming subgenres and crossovers; should they be split off?" ], "statistics": { 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Applied to this entry by rule. No source was read for this thing and no claim here is researched. This entry carries no facets of its own, so they were inferred from its domain - a guess about a whole domain applied to one thing.", "facetsInferred": true, "nextPass": "A researcher replaces this draft with a sourced specification. Treat every sentence below as a proposal to argue with.", "purpose": "Give an agent a durable, checkable way to recognise a rhythm and blues, record what state it is in, and decide what may be done with it.", "whatItIs": "Let an agent explain rhythm and blues and its history, relay styles, artists and charts from music references with attribution, and distinguish R&B from blues, soul and contemporary R&B as chart categories.", "characteristics": { "substance": "information", "origin": "conceptual", "agency": "inert" }, "whatYouCanDoWithIt": [ "read and interpreted", "observed and measured" ], "distinguishingFeatures": [ "Names folded into this entry, which a task may need to split apart again: doo-wop, Latin disco, boogaloo, disco-funk, early R&B, Christian R&B, beach music, boogie, disco, nu-disco, electro-disco, disco-pop.", "18 finer distinctions are held as aliases rather than separate entries, because telling them apart needs a task that asks for it.", "Described in 84 Wikipedia languages, which is a measure of how widely the thing is known, not of how important it is." ], "openQuestionsForResearch": [ "Which of the bundles below does a real task actually need, and which are ceremony?", "What does this thing have that the facets do not capture at all?", "Which neighbouring kind is most often confused with a rhythm and blues, and on what evidence are they told apart?" ], "whatItIsMadeOf": "content that has to be carried by something else", "physicalCharacter": [ "Does nothing on its own; everything it does, something else did to it.", "These come from the domain this entry sits in rather than from the entry itself, so treat them as a first guess about the whole domain applied to one thing." ], "whatCanBeDoneWithIt": [ "read it and act on what it says", "observe it, measure it, record its state" ], "howItIsRecognised": [ "What is seen is a copy or a performance, not the work. Recognising the work means recognising the content through whatever is carrying it." ], "relatedModels": [ { "relation": "covers", "note": "Finer kinds folded into this entry because telling them apart needs a task that asks for it. Each is a model waiting to be split out when one does.", "targets": [ "doo-wop", "Latin disco", "boogaloo", "disco-funk", "early R&B", "Christian R&B", "beach music", "boogie", "disco", "nu-disco", "electro-disco", "disco-pop" ] } ], "standing": "Described in 84 Wikipedia languages, which measures how widely it is written about rather than how important or how common it is. 18 finer distinctions are held inside this entry as names rather than as separate models.", "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "identity-and-classification", "name": "Identity, naming and classification", "description": "How an agent tells one rhythm and blues from another, and a rhythm and blues from things that resemble it.", "rationale": "Recognition comes before every other claim. Without stable identity nothing else in the model can be trusted to be about the same thing twice.", "layers": [ { "id": "naming-and-identifiers", "name": "Names and identifiers", "description": "The names this thing goes by and the identifiers that survive translation and time.", "findings": [ { "id": "preferred-name-and-aliases", "name": "Preferred name, aliases and local names", "description": "Which name to use, which names mean the same thing, and which merely sound similar.", "questions": [ { "id": "preferred-name-and-aliases-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the name of a rhythm and blues, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "preferred-name-and-aliases-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the name of a rhythm and blues, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "preferred-name-and-aliases-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the name of a rhythm and blues is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] }, { "id": "stable-identifiers", "name": "Stable identifiers and external keys", "description": "Identifiers that keep pointing at this kind of thing across systems and languages.", "questions": [ { "id": "stable-identifiers-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes an identifier for a rhythm and blues, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "stable-identifiers-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about an identifier for a rhythm and blues, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "stable-identifiers-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once an identifier for a rhythm and blues is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "classification-and-granularity", "name": "Classification and granularity", "description": "Where a rhythm and blues sits among kinds, and how finely a task needs to cut it.", "findings": [ { "id": "kind-and-parents", "name": "Kind, parents and neighbouring kinds", "description": "The classes this thing belongs to and the ones it is next to.", "questions": [ { "id": "kind-and-parents-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the kind of a rhythm and blues, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "kind-and-parents-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the kind of a rhythm and blues, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "kind-and-parents-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the kind of a rhythm and blues is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] }, { "id": "distinguishing-features", "name": "Distinguishing features", "description": "What separates a rhythm and blues from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a rhythm and blues, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "distinguishing-features-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about what distinguishes a rhythm and blues, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "distinguishing-features-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once what distinguishes a rhythm and blues is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "state-and-lifecycle", "name": "State and lifecycle", "description": "The states a rhythm and blues passes through and the events that move it between them.", "rationale": "Most decisions about a thing depend on what state it is in now, which is a claim with a time on it, not a property.", "layers": [ { "id": "lifecycle-stages", "name": "Lifecycle stages", "description": "From coming into existence to ceasing to be one of these.", "findings": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions", "name": "Stages and transitions", "description": "The stages worth naming and what 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"refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "content-and-access", "name": "Content, encoding and access", "description": "What a rhythm and blues says, how it is encoded and who may read it.", "rationale": "An informational thing carries content that can be copied, versioned and withheld, none of which its physical carrier explains.", "layers": [ { "id": "content-and-encoding", "name": "Content and encoding", "description": "The content itself, its format and its language.", "findings": [ { "id": "content-and-format", "name": "Content, format and language", "description": "What a rhythm and blues contains and in what form it is held.", "questions": [ { "id": "content-and-format-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the content of a rhythm and blues, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "content-and-format-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the content of a rhythm and blues, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "content-and-format-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the content of a rhythm and blues is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "access-and-rights", "name": "Access, rights and retention", "description": "Who may read, copy or change it, and for how long it is kept.", "findings": [ { "id": "access-rules", "name": "Access rules and retention", "description": "The permissions attached to a rhythm and blues and the period it survives.", "questions": [ { "id": "access-rules-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes access to a rhythm and blues, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values 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"provenance" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "authorship-and-rights", "name": "Authorship, rights and permitted use", "description": "Who made rhythm and blues and what may be done with it.", "rationale": "Rights are jurisdictional, time-limited and attached to a level, and an agent that ignores that will copy what it may not.", "layers": [ { "id": "authorship", "name": "Authorship and contribution", "description": "Who contributed what, and in what capacity.", "findings": [ { "id": "contribution-record", "name": "Contributors and roles", "description": "The people and bodies behind it, with their roles.", "questions": [ { "id": "contribution-record-q01", "text": "Who authored or contributed to rhythm and blues, in what roles, and how is that attested?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "id": "contribution-record-q02", "text": "Where authorship is disputed or anonymous, what is recorded instead?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] }, { "id": "rights", "name": "Rights and permissions", "description": "Which rights subsist, where, until when, and what they permit.", "findings": [ { "id": "rights-record", "name": "Rights, term and permitted acts", "description": "The regime in force and what it allows.", "questions": [ { "id": "rights-record-q01", "text": "What rights subsist in rhythm and blues, in which jurisdictions, and until when?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "rights-record-q02", "text": "Which acts are permitted without further permission, and which must an agent refuse?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "provenance-and-evidence", "name": "Provenance, evidence and time", "description": "Where every claim about a rhythm and blues came from and when it held.", "rationale": "A claim without a source and a time cannot be superseded, only overwritten, and an agent that overwrites loses the ability to explain itself.", "layers": [ { "id": "source-and-authority", "name": "Source and authority", "description": "Who said it, on what evidence, and how strongly.", "findings": [ { 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