Understanding moshing dance

Understanding Moshing Slam Slam Dancing or Dancing (moshing)

Moshing is a dance typical to enjoy aggressive music genres, such as hardcore punk and heavy metal. In the 2000s, more and more kinds of moshing, such as thrashing, or more extreme Wall Of Death, and is usually performed in front of the stage area known as the moshpit or simply pit. In Wall Of Death, participants are directed away from the central region can be said to stand or split into two areas by members of the band, then the band plays after the beginning of the next track, the two sides perpendicular to one another sprint stage and collided in the middle. Moshing is seen as a form of positive feedback or expression of pleasure, it is also a critique of a dangerous nature. Injuries and several deaths have been reported. However, it is generally agreed that moshers are not trying to hurt each other, and that they have agreed to follow the "moshing etiquette" unwritten.

According to the history and etymology, the term began to be used in the Mosh hardcore punk scene in the early 1980s in Washington DC, USA, first dance is often spelled mash in some fanzines and record liner notes, but the time was not yet pronounced mosh word, as in 1982 song "Total Mash" by the hardcore band, Scream. Then as accent pronunciation of the Jamaican people, the fans when they heard this as mosh instead. In the 1980s, the term Mosh appeared in print with the current spelling. Anthrax is the time it used the term in their song "Caught In Mosh", said it has become a mainstay in hardcore and thrash scene.Through the mainstream success of bands like Anthrax, Nirvana and The Melvins, the term Mosh becoming increasingly popular. Slam dance, can be traced back to the 1970s, punk rock show in the form of the Pogo. Slam dance during the first wave of American punk and England in 1977 was marked by stage diving, frenetic jumping, and chaotic motion. Pogo and slam dance, both a part of the punk movement at this time, and evolved into a form that is more harsh and extreme, that is moshing, as the first wave of punk died out and gave way to hardcore punk subculture that emerged in the late 1970s and early awal1980 . The first dance is identified as moshing may have originated in Orange County, California, during the first wave of American hardcore. An example of this early moshing can be seen in the documentary Urban Struggle, The Decline of Western Civilization, and American Hardcore, as well as some footage of some of the shows in that era. According to the story, Mike Marine, former U.S. Marine and star of The Decline of Western Civilization, slam dance first performed in 1979. Marine created a vicious version of punk dancing. He destroyed the fucking face anyone who would approach him-especially some Hippie, beat up anyone who can crushed. More virulent version soon exported to San Francisco and the Bay Area punk scene, where pogoing was still prevalent form of dance. From there, it spread to the east coast of the U.S. through touring hardcore musicians such as Bad Brains, Henry Rollins and MacKaye, having witnessed the HB Strut while traveling. Slam dance also become popular in the development of the crossover thrash scene. Here are a variety of moshing:

POGO DANCE ® Pogo is a movement jump up and down, while remaining in the same location. Pogo dance is often performed by players and spectators at the punk rock show.Pogo Mob is as blind to a group of people who do the pogo dance to punk gigs. It was the forerunner of the "mosh pit".

® STAGEDIVING Stage diving is jumping off the stage into the crowd to crowd. If the dense crowd of people usually do stage diving will be retained by the person underneath and malakukan CROWD SURFING (moving on from person to person). Although it looks confrontational and extreme, stage diving is often done in any event hardcore punk.

® headbanging stomp head movement up and down the tempo and rhythm of the music to follow. Headbanging is usually performed on rock music and heavy metal.

® SKANKINGDANCE skanking consisted of leg movements to the music with a bent posture while swinging left and right elbow. Skanking is often practiced in the ska, ska punk, hardcore punk, reggae, grime, dub, dubstep and other music.

® CIRCLEPIT Crowd moving in a circle usually run counter-clockwise. Can also be done with Skank dance movement. Circle pit started by a few people in response to the speed and rhythm of music. This movement is said to be taken from Indian tribes when his spirit ritual summon rain.

® HEADWALK / STEPAHEAD Running and jumping off the stage and looking for a foothold to step from one head to head next.

® WALLOFDEATH Before the music started the crowd was divided into two parts, the right and left with a limit distance of several meters were emptied. And when the music starts playing, the crowd will separate immediately ran at high speed into the middle of the crowd and mingle with others. This movement in the mean of simulation clashes between protesters and security forces who attacked each other in the middle of a demonstration. HARDCORE DANCE:

* 2-Step That movement backward move-fore legs are crossed and arms swinging in rhythm with the music, like skanking dance.

* BACKWARD KICKS / SPIN KICKS kicking motion while rotating the movement was also known as kungfu DANCE

Understanding of the genre of hardcore

Hardcore ..! The word that is often called a lot of people, especially the youth is actually not just a type of music, but a strong sense of who are sensitive or who dngn behavior accompanied by a love of life. Exactly a soul emotion. The meaning of the word hardcore is 'most' or 'essence' .. But not the essence / inek, brand beverages.
Another meaning dr hardcore mrupakan a form of expression that is issued in the form of lifestyle with fore thought and attention to the environment they live. Hardcore is also a lifestyle, behavior, open community, feelings, emotions spirit, togetherness, unity and oneness, true friendship, kinship terms which do not look any thing.
The origin of the rise of hardcore music that is about 1970 and the early 1980s, in America there is a group of young people who consist of remaja2 poor who make a living as laborers, some of them are street skateboarders, gangsters or thugs and several other youth unemployment rata2 who drop out of school. They are all huge fan of punk rock and oi.! And they had the same band group. The teens here who would later become the foundation of the early history of the movement of the hardcore community in the world.
Music sources mention as many hardcore underground music, because most of these communities are not published to the general public. People will not know anyone who is engaged in this hardcore music behind. Because the music that they do not have a subjective character, punk music here published and verifiable unrecognizable from their characteristic and style. And the hardcore community is not looking at the profession, who and where it came from and their age.
Founder hardcore music stream consists of 3 bands, namely: First, the Bad Brain hardcore flow that spread with konser2 held in most cities, so the hardcore music began in the know by audiences and the community at large.
Both are Bad Flag, the band began to form aransmen hardcore music track by changing step by step to be faster, so hardcore music too has its own character. And the third is Minor Threat, the band is this apparent difference between music and hardcore punk, Minor Threat Age called Straight to the community is invited with the hardcore community for more positive life.Because in the era of the 1970's many of the teens who died for - it due to drug use that too far.
Straight Age then split into two parts, namely the positive parts that are followers of the vegetarian and anti-smoking, while the negative reply .. Yes, the opposite donk ...!