Emo: Emo Musical Groups, First-Wave Emo Bands, Screamo Musical Groups, List of Emo Artists, Jawbreaker, Silverstein, You Me at Six

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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 40. Chapters: Emo musical groups, First-wave emo bands, Screamo musical groups, List of emo artists, Jawbreaker, Silverstein, You Me at Six, Funeral for a Friend, The Juliana Theory, Vendetta Red, Ten Second Epic, Fresno, Boysetsfire, Dag Nasty, Rites of Spring, I Am Ghost, Men As Trees, Eyeball Records, Envy, Gray Matter, Pay Money to My Pain, Shotmaker, Snow White's Poison Bite, Her Bright Skies, The Class of 98, Jade Tree, Fire Party, Embrace, Brandtson, Policy of 3, Salem, Nitro Mega Prayer, Raein, La Quiete, Farside, Pop Unknown, Grown Ups, JR Ewing, Mihai Edrisch. Excerpt: Emo ( ) is a style of rock music typically 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. As the style was echoed by contemporary American punk rock bands, its sound and meaning shifted and changed, blending with pop punk and indie rock and encapsulated in the early 1990s by groups such as Jawbreaker and Sunny Day Real Estate. By the mid 1990s numerous emo acts emerged from the Midwestern and Central United States, and several independent record labels began to specialize in the style. Emo broke into mainstream culture in the early 2000s with the platinum-selling success of Jimmy Eat World and Dashboard Confessional and the emergence of the subgenre "screamo." In recent years the term "emo" has been applied by critics and journalists to a variety of artists, including multiplatinum acts and groups with disparate styles and sounds. In addition to music, "emo" is often used more generally to signify a particular relationship between fans and artists, and to describe related aspects of fashion, culture, and behavior. Emo emerged from the...

66 pages, Paperback

First published May 20, 2010