What is pbrb

I think that the only reliable setting one could assume he or she can use this word is in the realm of WCWM, the campus radio station. Do you think it is possible that the word would be whitewashed used more in the White American community , like the word bro? I had never heard this term before reading your post but most of the artiest Adam mentioned are ones I listen to.

I think this is definitely current and relevant to the new music industry. You must be logged in to post a comment. A random group of vaguely similar artists who would not necessarily be associated, because of the far reach of the internet, are categorized together. Some artists have taken offense to the categorization. Rhythm and Blues is a genre that originally stems from African slave spirituals, and it is still dominated by African American singers and listeners. That was coined by Atlantic Records executive Jerry Wexler in , to replace "Race Records", the offensive name of a chart used at the time to rank the popularity of music made by African-Americans.

A decade earlier, the story goes, young white people—often referred to with the even vaguer term "hipster"— started co-opting a Milwaukee-brewed beer founded in because it was inexpensive and not incessantly target-marketed toward them which, of course, then started target-marketing them. But the evidence is there, on Wikipedia: My silly pun made this music easier to discuss for a lot of people.

This is what genres do really well, for good and for ill: They make large amounts of music easier to talk about and, by extension, sell. Particularly with the infinite online options for music access and conversation, pithy and memorable genre names can make it easier if not necessarily accurate to classify, discuss, and compare music.

Remember "witch house"? People have lengthy, years-long arguments using genres as combatants. If nothing else, genres make music easier to fight about.

Things get passed around online because people have specific reasons to do so—whether citing them and adding to the conversation, fiercely disagreeing with them, and so on. About Zemira. Zemira's Music Journey. Music Opt-In H. Contact Zemira. Social Media. Log in. Close cart. Back to the blog: So there you have it!

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