What is Emo. Emo is style of rock music characterised by melodic musicianship and expressive, often confessional lyrics презентация

MUSIC Emo is style of rock music characterised by melodic musicianship and expressive, often confessional lyrics it originated in the mid 1980’s hardcore punk movement of Washington D.C. and it was known as emotional hardcore or ‘EMOCORE’ Emo music is often use more generally to signify a particular relationship between fans and artist and to describe related aspect of fashion, culture and behaviour http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qcOK_YATp6U Examples of Band Jimmy Eat World Green Day Dashboard Confessional Screamo - sub-genre if hardcore punk that predominantly evolved from emo My Chemical Romance Secondhand Serenade Red Jumpsuit

The Emo sub-culture is very much based around emotional rock, sexual blurring & the colour black. Emo style does not differ from males & females. As shown from the images below, male & female Emos look very similar in the sense of clothing, piercings, dyed black hair, pail skin colour & dark eye make up for boys & girls. This is referred to as ‘sexual blurring’, which means that there is no difference between men & women. EQUALITY! The Emo sub-culture is very much based around emotional rock, sexual blurring & the colour black. Emo style does not differ from males & females. As shown from the images below, male & female Emos look very similar in the sense of clothing, piercings, dyed black hair, pail skin colour & dark eye make up for boys & girls. This is referred to as ‘sexual blurring’, which means that there is no difference between men & women. EQUALITY!

Fashion: Fashion: As shown from the picture below, Emo fashion revolves around dark colours (i.e. black, red, purple, etc.). Emos are also fond of images that symbolise emotion & death. Because of the type of style they mix with & the type of music they listen to, Emos have developed a sense of despair & misery as they seem to believe that there is no point to life. As an extreme measure to this, Emos find a fetish in self-harming themselves. The best known aspect of this idea is self-cutting on the wrist, causing extreme pain, but in the sense of pleasure.

Emo’s values and beliefs

Values and beliefs according to music and styles Their music styles are very loud and express how they feel by the songs they sing. So they feel anger as their music is very high pitch with screaming and the lyrics are overwrote They feel pain of their past so their values and beliefs link in as they believe that they can share with people how they feel through music  They wore black clothing to show their pain and depressed feelings. Stereotypically they clit there wrists so that they look depressed and suicidal which reinforces their stereotype

The emo culture The emo subculture got very popular in the last years with some negative events that had shaken the parents and the society. It is found to be that the values and beliefs of the emo culture preaches extremely dangerous for the health of young people. But it is not about: alcohol Cigarettes Sex but for something more dangerous and frightening, called suicide or ‘self harm’ The emo communities decide their problems as they commit suicide by rituals.

Research In some districts, administrators seek to define the line between classroom distraction and the student’s need for self-expression. ... Often a student’s clothes, intended as a fashion statement can be misread as a billboard about sexuality. - Hoffman (2009) The term Emo usually is depicted as originating from a melodic subgenre of punk rock music first called “emocore” or “emotional hard-core” and “has evolved to become a well recognized slang term to describe a group with particular preferences in clothes, music and behaviours” (Scott & Chur-Hansen, 2008).

Functionalist view: Functionalist view: Functionalists believe that youth sub-cultures serve a purpose. They are useful because they solve a purpose of identity for young people as it provides them with a group that they can associate to. In the case of Emos, functionalists would say that their sub-culture solves a crisis of identity for young people who are still finding themselves in the world. Although they are a resistance group (Marxism), they still serve as a benefit for youths that need a sub-culture that they can belong to. Also because their culture is based on sexual blurring, it is an ideal form of functionalism, as it supports the idea of unity and harmony. It also provides harmony for the Emos, as it provides them with a culture that they can conform to.

From the Marxist perspective about THE ‘EMO’ SUBCULTURE Marxist might see the emo subculture as a form if ideological resistant to the capitalist society. E.g. not being ‘ordinary’ They might argue that Emo's fashion, music and styles is only to be incorporated by the ‘bourgeoisie’ so that they can make profit. Feel pressure of conforming to body image and materialism. Oppression of the capitalism.