Emo Style Overview
Emo Music Description
Emo is a genre of rock music characterized by an emphasis on emotional expression, sometimes through confessional lyrics. It emerged as a style of post-hardcore from the mid-1980s hardcore punk movement in Washington, D.C., where it was known as emotional hardcore or emocore, and was pioneered by bands such as Rites of Spring and Embrace (notably not the British band of the same name). In the early 1990s, emo was adopted and reinvented by alternative/indie rock and pop punk bands such as Jawbreaker, Sunny Day Real Estate, Weezer and Jimmy Eat World. By the mid-1990s, emo bands such as Braid, the Promise Ring and the Get Up Kids emerged from the burgeoning Midwest emo scene, and several independent record labels began to specialize in the genre.
In the 2000s, the term became associated with a particularly youthful strain, which gained some crossover status and was connected to widespread fashion and sociological trends. Provided by Wikipedia under Creative Commons Attribution CC-BY-SA 4.0
