EMOS

Emo is a subculture or urban tribe born in the mid 1980's in America, more precisely in Washington D. C. as a musical genre derived from post-hardcore. Generally, it usually takes the band My Chemical Romance as the best known representative of this subculture.


HISTORY

Throughout its history, emo has gone through several stages. In the late 80s the term emo was used to describe bands from the underground music scene of Washington DC as Rites of Spring and Embrace, among others. In the mid-'90s, the genre took the sound patterns created by Sunny Day Real Estate. Today, the term is wrongly used to label bands of different styles like alternative rock, pop punk, post-hardcore and even metalcore.
The most popular bands usually listed within this musical style are Dashboard Confessional, Saves The Day, Thursday, Amber Pacific, Jimmy Eat World, Escape The Fate and Alesana.
As a result of substantial change and the poor relationship between the sound of bands emo-core scene of the '80s and early '90s with the bands current label within the genus, two sides have been generated in the use the term "emo". While some argue that gender disappeared in the late '90s (along with the album Clarity Jimmy Eat World), others accept their use to categorize the style of various popular bands of the scene.


CHARACTERIZATION


CLOTHING
Emo icon have often characterized by black clothing combined with pink (sometimes purple, red or white) and a lock of hair that usually taparles one eye (or both), most times the izquierdo.1 Clothing emo is often confused and / or combined with the Gothic and the scene.

SOCIAL REJECTION

The subculture often results in rejections of certain sectors of society by criticism over allegations that being emo is the first step or a way to hide homosexualidad.3
Part of the urban myth woven around this group revolves around an alleged incitement to suicide or self-flagellation, inside of it, but it is clear that were the mass media who exploited this stereotype, formerly attributed to the darks and goths.