It’s Not a Phase, Mom: The Emo Genre and Its Complicated Identity

📚Lecture: "It’s Not a Phase, Mom: The Emo Genre and Its Complicated Identity"

🎤Speaker: Edward Stewart (Musicologist & Self Proclaimed Lifelong Emo)

From small basement shows to dominating the 2000s airwaves, the emo genre has become a household name; for better or for worse. Contrary to media representations, emo has a complex identity that rarely matches the studded belts, black nail polish, and swooped bangs they have come to define emo by. Thanks to these representations and the Satanic Panic that the genre invoked, emo has been left to be just “a phase” for edgy teenagers to grow out of; a statement that is more than wrong.
To understand what it is to be emo, one must look to history, to the music, and to the culture that is hidden behind the public’s Satanic Panic infused perceptions. In this presentation, these questions and more will be answered, all before the alcohol kicks in!

Edward Stewart (they/them) is a self-proclaimed lifelong emo and interdisciplinary PhD student at the University of Ottawa. Growing up in southern Saskatchewan, a chance encounter with Gerard Way’s whiny, aggressive screams changed everything sending them down a rabbit hole of listening, dissecting, and ultimately researching the emo genre. Edward’s work explores gender, sexuality, identity, and culture through lyrical content and community across punk, alternative, and pop music, and they’ve presented at conferences across Canada and at Emocon in St. Louis.

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Agenda

6:15pm - Doors open: Grab a seat, order drinks and food and settle in.

6:55pm - Host Introduction

7:00pm - Lecture starts

7:45pm - Q&A with Audience

8:00pm - Socialize and make friends, grab drinks

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