The term that I chose to search was “screamo” music, which to be honest I know nothing about but I thought it would be interesting to see where it was first mentioned, because as far as I know it’s a fairly recent genre. I found the first use of the word in 1969, which I really wasn’t expecting, I thought I’d find the first mention at least a decade later, it then dips back down to 0% after 1976, has a resurgence from 1980 to 1994 with a peak in 1986, and then reemerges again in 1999, and shoots up until 2008, where it’s projected to keep rising. Although upon further investigation I found that the word itself wasn’t used to describe the actual music genre until around the late nineties, and previous uses of it meant anything from cigar brands, porcelain, and even a name of a pet in a novel. The quotes I found about the actual music were in articles without ebooks, so it was kind of hard to get better quotes, and they didn’t really give me much besides listing some band names with a brief description of the style of music, and the importance of fashion to the genre: (Although I did get a great description of traveler’s diarrhea from an infectious disease handbook referring to it as “the hot galloping screamos”)

“So last week the New York Times ran an article called “Summer of Screamo.” It was a poorly researched article that was mostly about bands that have had some mild level of mainstream success such as The Used and Thursday.”

“The angry planets have aligned so that three of screamo’s primo torchbearers have dropped major-label platters just in time to save the day from the nii-metal backlash.”

“Posters, banners, table tents and the ScreamO-Meter backbar piece encourage customers to compete in the most blood-curdling scream contest to win T-shirts, bandannas, eye patches, tattoos, pirate earrings, and mustaches and beards.”