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Emo (/ ˈ iː m oʊ /) is a music genre characterized by emotional, often confessional lyrics. It emerged as a style of hardcore punk and post-hardcore from the mid-1980s Washington, D.C. hardcore scene, where it was known as emotional hardcore or emocore. The bands Rites of Spring and Embrace, among others, pioneered the genre.
Emo is a style of rock music characterized by melodic musicianship and expressive, often confessional lyrics. It originated in the mid-1980s hardcore punk movement of Washington, D.C., where it was known as "emotional hardcore" or "emocore" and pioneered by bands such as Rites of Spring and Embrace.
Though rooted in the loud-and-fast style of hardcore punk, Rites of Spring is to be among the first bands who played music in the emotional hardcore genre, [12] or what is now commonly and retrospectively called emo-core, a precursor of screamo. Jenny Toomey notes that, "Rites of Spring existed well before the term did and they hated it." [9]
Screamo (also referred to as skramz [1]) is a subgenre of emo that emerged in the early 1990s and emphasizes "willfully experimental dissonance and dynamics". [2] San Diego–based bands Heroin and Antioch Arrow pioneered the genre in the early 1990s, and it was developed in the late 1990s mainly by bands from the East Coast of the United States such as Pg. 99, Orchid, Saetia, and I Hate Myself.
In Nothing Feels Good: Punk Rock, Teenagers and Emo, Greenwald recounts the origin point of emo, starting with the hardcore punk scene in Washington, D.C. [1] He pinpoints the origin of the genre's name to 1985, when it was originally referred to as "emotional hardcore or emocore". [2]
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Electronicore – a fusion of electronic and post-hardcore/metalcore music. Electropop – a style of synth-pop that leans more towards the electronic music side than the pop music side. Electropunk – a fusion of electronic and punk music. Emo – heavily emotional and pessimistic style of post-hardcore, as well as indie rock in its ...