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==Etymology== Steven Blush states that the [[Vancouver]]-based band [[D.O.A. (band)|D.O.A.]]'s 1981 album, ''[[Hardcore '81]]'', "was where the genre got its name".<ref name="Greenroom">{{cite web |url=http://greenroom-radio.com/2016/03/02/what-is-hardcore/ |title=What is Hardore? |last=Blush |first=Steven |date=March 2, 2016 |website=greenroom-radio.com |access-date=July 1, 2017 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170809212902/http://greenroom-radio.com/2016/03/02/what-is-hardcore/ |archive-date=August 9, 2017 }}</ref> This album also helped to make people aware of the term "hardcore".<ref>{{cite web | title=D.O.A. To Rock Toronto International Film Festival | work=PunkOiUK | url=http://www.punkoiuk.co.uk/news/details.asp?newID=1267 | access-date=December 22, 2006 | url-status=dead | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070311005211/http://www.punkoiuk.co.uk/news/details.asp?newID=1267 | archive-date=March 11, 2007 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web | title=D.O.A. | work=punknews.org | url=http://www.punknews.org/bands/doa | access-date=December 22, 2006 | url-status=live | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070227174018/http://www.punknews.org/bands/doa | archive-date=February 27, 2007 }}</ref> Konstantin Butz states that while the origin of the expression "hardcore" "cannot be ascribed to a specific place or time", the term is "usually associated with the further evolution of California's L.A. Punk Rock scene", which included young skateboarders.<ref name="auto1">Butz, Konstantin. ''Grinding California: Culture and Corporeality in American Skate Punk''. Verlag, 2014. p. 79</ref> A September 1981 article by [[Tim Sommer]] shows the author applying the term to the "15 or so" punk bands gigging around the city at that time, which he considered a belated development relative to Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Washington, D.C.<ref>Tim Sommer ''Sounds'' October 10, 1981 {{cite web |url=http://20thcpunkarchives.tripod.com/id62.htm |title=New York Hardcore |access-date=February 17, 2016 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150722065126/http://20thcpunkarchives.tripod.com/id62.htm |archive-date=July 22, 2015 }}</ref> Blush said that the term "hardcore" is also a reference to the sense of being "fed up" with the existing punk and [[new wave music]].<ref name="duo.uio.no">{{cite web |url=https://www.duo.uio.no/bitstream/handle/10852/26264/BrockmeierxDUO.pdf?sequence=1 |title=Archived copy |access-date=May 20, 2014 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131102213941/https://www.duo.uio.no/bitstream/handle/10852/26264/BrockmeierxDUO.pdf?sequence=1 |archive-date=November 2, 2013 }} p. 9</ref> Blush also states that the term refers to "an extreme: the absolute most Punk".<ref>Steven Blush. ''American Hardcore: a Tribal History.'' Feral House, 2001. p. 18</ref> Kelefa Sanneh states that the term "hardcore" referred to an attitude of "turning inwards" towards the scene and "ignoring broader society", all with the goal of achieving a sense of "shared purpose" and being part of a community.<ref name="auto2">{{cite magazine |url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/03/09/united-blood/ |title=United Blood: How hardcore conquered New York |last=Sanneh |first=Kelefa |date=March 2, 2015 |magazine=The New Yorker |access-date=June 15, 2017 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170617173916/http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/03/09/united-blood |archive-date=June 17, 2017 }}</ref> Sanneh cites [[Agnostic Front]]'s band member selection approach as an example of hardcore's emphasis on "scene citizenship"; prospective members of the band were chosen based on being part of the local hardcore scene and being regularly in the [[moshing]] pit at shows, rather than based on a musical [[audition]].<ref name="auto2"/>
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