How Hard is Hardcore? The Emotional Styles of Oi and Emo.

Activity: Academic Talks or PresentationsConference Presentation

Description

A comparison of the emotional styles of oi and emo, examining music, lyrics, and performance in order to analyse the roles that emotions perform, and how they are evaluated, and embodied, by the genres. This analysis is grounded in Sara Ahmed's research into emotional hardness, and her notion of bodies as surfaces.
Period2 Dec 2022
Event titlePunk Scholars Network Conference 2022: Resilience
Event typeConference
LocationLondon, United KingdomShow on map
Degree of RecognitionInternational

Keywords

  • Punk
  • Oi
  • Emo
  • Emotion
  • Music
  • Popular Music
  • popular culture