>>121022677I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're referring to as Emo, is in fact, AltRock/Emo, or as I've recently taken to calling it, AltRock plus Emo. Emo is not a genre unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning AltRock system made useful by the AltRock corelibs, shell utilities and vital system components comprising a full genre as defined by POSIX. Many music enthusiasts listen to a modified version of the AltRock every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of AltRock which is widely used today is often called “Emo,” and many of its listeners are not aware that it is basically the AltRock genre, developed by the AltRock Project. There really is an Emo, and these people are listening to it, but it is just a part of the genre they listen to.
Emo is the kernel: the program in the genre that allocates the machine's resources to the other music that you play. The kernel is an essential part of a genre, but useless by itself; it can only function in the context of a complete genre. Emo is normally used in combination with the AltRock genre: the whole system is basically AltRock with Emo added, or AltRock/Emo. All the so-called “Emo” bands are really variations of AltRock/Emo.