Editing Hardcore punk (section)

===Dancing===
{{Further|Moshing}}
[[File:TH - Mosh Pit (5370150223).jpg|215px|thumb|right|Audience members moshing to [[Toxic Holocaust]]]]

The early 1980s hardcore punk scene developed [[slam dancing]] (also called moshing), a style of [[dance]] in which participants push or slam into each other, and [[stage diving]]. Moshing works as a vehicle for expressing anger by "represent[ing] a way of playing at violence or roughness that allowed participants to mark their difference from the banal niceties of middle-class culture".<ref name=BRMartin>{{Cite book|last=Martin|first=Bradford|date=March 1, 2011|title=The Other Eighties: A Secret History of America in the Age of Reagan|publisher=Macmillan|page=111|isbn=9781429953429}}</ref> Moshing is in another way a "[[parody]] of violence",<ref name=PTWilliams/><ref>Palmer, Craig T. (Spring 2005). "Mummers and Moshers: Two Rituals of Trust in Changing Social Environments." Retrieved November 29, 2014</ref> that nevertheless leaves participants bruised and sometimes bleeding.<ref name=PTWilliams>{{Cite book|last=Williams|first=J. Patrick|date=April 17, 2013|title=Subcultural Theory: Traditions and Concepts|publisher=John Wiley & Sons|page=111|isbn=9780745637327}}</ref> The term ''mosh'' came into use in the early 1980s American hardcore scene in Washington, D.C. A performance by [[Fear (band)|Fear]] on the 1981 [[Halloween]] episode of ''[[Saturday Night Live]]'' was cut short when moshers, including [[John Belushi]] and members of a few hardcore punk bands, invaded the stage, damaged studio equipment and used profanity.<ref>{{AllMusic|class=artist|id=p4240|label=Fear}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.culturebully.com/fear-on-saturday-night-live-and-ian-mackaye |archive-url=http://arquivo.pt/wayback/20090701195213/http://www.culturebully.com/fear-on-saturday-night-live-and-ian-mackaye |url-status=dead |archive-date=July 1, 2009 |title=Fear on SNL and Ian MacKaye |work=culturebully.com |date=March 1, 2006 }}</ref>