Simone's Travels through Music

                 Today’s blog is about the roots of emo rock. I’m going to go over some history on the genre, such as how it got started, which genres fed into it and some of the early bands of the genre. I’m also going to cover what instruments are used as well as the vocal style and typical lyrics of this genre. I want to also go over my experience with this genre and why I chose to do a blog on it.                Emo is short for emotional hardcore or emocore. Emo rock music is a subgenre of punk rock that was created in the mid-1980’s in Washington DC. Though that was only the first wave. The second came from America’s Midwest. Though some say that it was California then in the Midwest, and I the Midwest is where it changed. Throughout the 90’s it spread across the country. As the new millennium came in emo rock had come away from its roots, mixing with alt-rock ...

                I honestly hadn’t thought about gender expectations in music before. I don’t know if I see expectations in gender in music, but I do see gender norms. Maybe those are the same things, I’m not completely certain. Like I don’t see many females in rock music. And I don’t really see a lot of males in pop music, at least now a days.                 I think in dealing with sound equipment, it is mostly males. But I’ve never seen sound equipment or even the instruments being set up before so I really couldn’t say one way or the other. I couldn’t say one way or the other in regard to conducting because I don’t go to the orchestra of any kind. Teaching in general seems to be a more female dominated area while managing seems to be more male dominated. I don’t think that most men have the patience to teach.           ...