The roots of the emo music goes back to the 80's. The emo genre is a subdivision of the punk, wich is a subdivision of the goth. The popular hardcore punk rockbands were the first emo bands. After that they called it emocore, a word mare up from the emotional and hardcore words.emo
The first breath of the emocore was the first part of the emo story, the first period. Just to mention them: Rites of Spring, Embrace, One Last Wish, etc...
They were really cool until the beggining of the 90's, after they split up, we can say that the first period was over.
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In 1994, in the garden of underground indie the emo music style just reborned, cause of Fugazi and the Dischord records. The second wave or period was still just inside the USA. But the third wave was sentenced for world popularity! It caused by the record companies that tried to made up a lot of emo formations, and bands, and bulid emo communities all around the world.emo
We are still in this period, and that is the hottest little fashion on the streets right now. From nowdays, just to mention some bands: My Chemical Romance, Fall Out Boy, AFI, etc... But that is the point when you can't be up to date, cause emo bands going down, and coming up every week, so just keep looking on the web for emo music, or emo bands and listen'em!this post if from http://jherson84.blogspot.com/2008/04/emo-music.html