![]() The term “urban contemporary” is heavily associated with African-American music, particularly for Contemporary R&B in African-American contexts. 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, Los Angeles, Baltimore, Memphis, Boston, New Orleans, Oklahoma City, and Charlotte. Urban contemporary was developed through the characteristics of genres such as R&B and soul. Urban contemporary radio stations feature a playlist made up entirely of hip hop, R&B, electronic dance music such as dubstep and drum and bass (often with hip hop vocalists or rappers), and Caribbean music such as reggae, reggaeton, zouk, bouyon, and sometimes Soca (In Toronto, London, New York City, Boston and Miami). The term was coined by the late New York DJ Frankie Crocker in the mid-1970s. Urban contemporary is a music radio format.
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