Article: What's the Deal with Emo Music?

RACHEL MARTIN
NPR The Bryant Park Project
05-30-2008
What's the Deal with Emo Music?

Host: RACHEL MARTIN
Time 7:00-8:00 AM


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RACHEL MARTIN, host:

So the emo protest in England isn't the first time the concept of emo has come up in the news in recent months. If you remember in Mexico earlier this year, violence against emo-identified, makeup-wearing teens resulted in serious demonstrations. And the Internet is like emo heaven, awash in websites telling you both how to look emo, how to identify someone who looks emo. But I'm pretty sure this is music, too. Right?

Who better to ask than BPP director Jacob Ganz? He's our resident expert on all things music. He listened, apparently, ...

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