Hardcore Ethnography

I believe that hardcore music overall has impacted today’s youth in a positive way. Speaking from experience, hardcore music and the community, or scene, surrounding it have impacted me in a very positive way. Throughout high school, and for a little while after, I never thought I belonged anywhere. I never thought people were happy to see me or know I was around. Then I happened across the scene, and it was like I found what was missing from my life. I finally found a group of people who were happy to see me, who called me their friend and didn’t just say it because I was around. It’s a community, and that’s how many of the scenes around the country, and the world are - a group of kids hanging out with and protecting kids that are just like them. That’s how the scene was always supposed to be, and, hopefully, the way it’ll stay. Hardcore was created as a marriage of the “angst, social themes, and three chord progression” of Punk music and the speed and anger of Heavy Metal music, …show more content…
It’s still that way to a point now, with shows happening in bars and 21+ venues, but back in the 80’s and parts of the 90’s, alcohol and drugs ruled the scene. That was until Minor Threat came around. Minor Threat was a hardcore band from the 1980’s who pioneered the Straight Edge movement with a song called “Straight Edge”, which told kids that it was okay not to do drugs. That in turn gave birth to something of a sub-genre, straightforwardly named, “Straight Edge Hardcore”, which include other hardcore pioneering bands such as Gorilla Biscuits and Youth of Today, which introduced vegetarianism and animal rights to the Straight Edge community, with their 1988 song, “No More”, which included the lyrics, “Meat-eating, flesh-eating, think about it. So callous this crime we