Remember, you're researching the original emotive hardcore movement in the 80s. You're not looking for emo pop punk, the emo phase or anything which states that it means " emotional ".
[header] How to understand what emo is [title] Find out the real meaning of emo. [step] You can find reliable sources by typing in keywords generally known to the mainstream like " skramz ", " emocore " and later " emoviolence " and " powerviolence ". Doing so will bring up pages untainted by mainstream definition.