80. "1. LOL for using wikipedia to define R&B, 2. even that definition " In response to In response to 71
does really help because it by the definition you listed it describes R&B as term for who the music is marketed "TO" not who the creators are and 3.) the origins of a term determine define a term. You've described where the name comes from but you didn't describe what it means.
It's just silly to say that you can listen to a Jon B album. Think it's an R&B album, and then decide it's not when you find out the singer is white.
Also, for example how many black people do you need on an album to make it R&B? Justin Bieber had some black songwriters. That's not enough? Is it the one drop rule for R&B or does it have to be more than 50% created by Af-Ams? What if a Bi-racial person makes the record? Come on man.
>It actually does.. > >From wiki ". The term was originally used by record >companies to describe recordings marketed predominantly to >urban African Americans, at a time when "urbane, rocking, jazz >based music with a heavy, insistent beat" was becoming more >popular." > >It has evolved sonically and other people are involved but R&b >is a technical term for a genre made up by a journalist to >replace "black music" or "race music".. So it matters whose >involved
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