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Music genre derivative of punk rock music
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Emo is a music genre characterized by emotional, often confessional lyrics. It emerged as a style of hardcore punk and post-hardcore from the mid-1980s Washington, D.C. hardcore scene, where it was known as emotional hardcore or emocore. The bands Rites of Spring and Embrace, among others, pioneered the genre. In the early-to-mid 1990s, emo was...

Instance of
Music genre
Subclass of
punk music
Rock music
Country of origin
United States
References
Wikidata