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Emo is a style of rock music which describes several independent variations of music with common stylistic roots. As such, use of the term has been the subject of much debate. In the mid-1980s, the term [E]mo described a subgenre of hardcore punk which originated in the Washington, DC music scene of the mid-1980s. In later years, the term emocore, short for "emotive hardcore"[1][2] or sometimes "emotional hardcore", was ... used to describe the emotional performances of bands in the Washington DC scene and some of the offshoot regional scenes such as Rites of Spring, Embrace, One Last Wish, Beefeater, Gray Matter, Fire Party, and later, Moss Icon.
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Emo is a spin off of the indie rock and punk music genres. Early indie dates back to the mid to late 1970s with the band Mission of Burma. Punk goes back even further with bands such as The Ramones, and MC5. Emo didn’t show up until the early 1990s with bands like Superchunk and Sunny Day Real Estate. Those bands paved the way for today’s emo superstars.
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Emo-core as introduced by the pioneering Rites of Spring in the mid-’80s seemed revolutionary in the face of prevailing hardcore punk sounds. Here was a reflective band that expressed its intimate sentiments in a style that was never sappy, thanks to music that was both pulverizing and delicate. Rites of Spring broke up and vocalist Guy Piciotto went on to form Fugazi with Ian MacKaye in 1987. To some extent Fugazi moved the legacy of Rites of Spring and Embrace forward, though its music was never quite as emotionally exposed. It would fall on the bands that followed to fashion emo into the style heard today.
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