Uncovering Mexico

Uncovering Mexico

Jeremy Schwartz is the Mexico correspondent for Cox Newspapers. He is based in Mexico City.

What's on this page?

The entry titled "Cutting to the heart of the Mexico City emo question."

Categories

• Central America
• Mexico

More recent entries

• Mexico prepares for massive return of migrants
• Marion Jones update - after prison, she bears all to Oprah
• Mexico embassy spy case: Burn after reading
• Felipe: the spy who infiltrated the U.S. embassy?
• Belize: life between Venezuela and the United States
• More entries...

Home > Uncovering Mexico > Archives > 2008 > July > 23 > Entry

Cutting to the heart of the Mexico City emo question

By Jeremy Schwartz | Wednesday, July 23, 2008, 11:48 AM

Former AP journo turned freelancer-extraordinaire Ioan Grillo has produced this excellent video on the emo ruckus that consumed Mexico City a couple months ago. The mini-doc for current.com has one of the better definitions of what emo means in Mexico City as well as some jarring footage of a run-in between punks and emos.

For more insight into the emo phenomenon and subsequent attacks on them, blogger Daniel Hernandez (featured in the video) meticulously chronicled the emo saga during the dog days of the Mexican spring at his culture blog Intersections

Permalink | Comments (0) | Post your comment