Positive hardcore

Positive hardcore (sometimes shortened to posicore or posi-core) is a branch of the hardcore punk music scene, that is socially aware, or focuses on values, such as being inclusive, community-oriented, and anti-violent.^[1][2] The genre was created as a backlash to the violence and negativity in the straight edge scene.^[3]

Since the term was coined in the 1980s, it has been applied to a divergent group of musical styles and bands including 7 Seconds,^[4] Youth of Today,^[5] Good Clean Fun,^[6] and The Wonder Years.^[7] Early positive hardcore bands in the 1980s and 1990s sang about social issues such as the treatment of the LGBT community by the hardcore punk scene^[4] as well as non-violence and scene unity.^[8] These were topics that the hardliners rejected. In the late 2000s through the 2010s there has been a renaissance in the genre.^[9] Instead of being a backlash against hardline, the renaissance comes from a backlash against the (2010s) dominant metalcore bands in the scene.^[10]

Notes

1. Haenfler, 2006, pp. 92-96
2. Kuhn, 2010, p. 16
3. Reyes, 2008, p. 112
4. Ensminger, 2011, p. 162
5. Wood, 2006, p. 50
6. Haenfler, 2006, p. 93
7. Martin, 2011
8. Haenfler, 2006, pp. 94-95
9. Reyes, 2008, p. 116
10. Reyes, 2008, p. 114

References and Bibliography

• Ensminger, D. A. (2011). Visual Vitriol: The Street Art and Subcultures of the Punk and Hardcore Generation. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi.
• Haenfler, R. (2006). Straight edge: Clean-living youth, hardcore punk, and social change. Piscataway: Rutgers University Press.
• Kuhn, G. (2010). Sober Living for the Revolution: Hardcore Punk, Straight Edge, and Radical Politics. Oakland: PM Press.
• Martin, T. (2011). Like Rats is an unlikely opener. Accessed from Northern Star http://northernstar.info/dekalb_scene/article_edf0bc0a-63dd-11e0-bf9c-001a4bcf6878.html
• Reyes, I. (2008). Sound, technology, and interpretation in subcultures of heavy music production. (Doctoral dissertation). Retrieved from ProQuest. (AAT 3322362)
• Wood, R. T. (2006). Straight Edge Youth: The Complexity and Contradictions of a Subculture. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press.