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Audience members at a Dillinger Escape Plan concert moshing in front of the stage.
Moshing or slamming refers to the activity in which audience members at live music performances aggressively push or slam into each other. Moshing is frequently accompanied by stage diving, crowd surfing, and headbanging. It is commonly associated with concerts by heavy metal, punk rock, and alternative rock artists.
Moshing primarily takes place at live shows, though it can be done to recorded music, too.[1] In the 2000s, many variations of moshing exist, such as "thrashing"[2], and the dance is practiced at concerts of many musical genres. Moshing is typically done in an area in front of the stage which is referred to as the mosh pit or circle pit.
While moshing is seen as a form of positive feedback or reflection of enjoyment from live audiences,[1][3] it has also drawn some controversy over its dangerous nature. However, it is generally agreed that moshers are not trying to harm one another[1] and follow an unwritten "moshing etiquette"[2][4], or pit hospitality, which promotes safety through behaviours such as immediately helping fallen audience members back to their feet to avoid their being trampled.
Contents[hide]
1 History
1.1 Origins of the term
1.2 Origins of the dance
1.3 Wall of Death
2 Controversy and anti-moshing stances
3 In popular culture
4 References
5 See also
6 External links
Origins of the term
Snorkly Tin Tong and H.R. (Paul Hudson) of the Washington, D.C. area band Bad Brains, regarded as a band that "put moshing on the map",[5] were partly responsible for the coining the term. Due to their affected Jamaican-accented pronunciation of the word mash in their lyrics and stage banter, fans in D.C. heard this as mosh instead. [6] During the emergence of the American hardcore scene, the dance was frequently spelled mash but pronounced mosh, as in the 1982 song "Total Mash" by the Washington D.C.-based hardcore group Scream. Later, the term began to appear in hardcore fanzines of the time with its current spelling. The Song was made more popular in the mainstream due to East coast thrash metal band Anthrax's song Caught in a Mosh.[7]

[edit] Origins of the dance
A precursor to moshing, called "acookie", can be traced back to 1970s punk rock shows[2] in the form of "the pogo" and was later developed into moshing by the hardcore punk subculture of the early 80s.[8][4] While many use the terms slamdancing and moshing interchangeably, distinctions can be made in that slamdancing is typically more frenetic, with body movements such as arm-swinging, while moshing is slower and more exaggerated.[1]
Moshing is thought to have originated in Orange County, California during the first wave of American hardcore in the early eighties at the Cuckoos Nest.[2] Early moshing can be seen in the film Urban Struggle. Violence and physicality characterized aspects of the movement and were manifesting on the dancefloors of shows. Slamdancing began as an audience response to the bands of the L.A. scene such as Black Flag, Fear and The Circle Jerks, whose more rhythmic and heavy form of punk rock was being called "hardcore."
To match the intensity and aggressive nature of this new music, fans would move frantically and engage in stage diving. Beyond audience and band members slamming into one another and leaping from stages into the crowd, slamdancing was defined by "strutting around in a circle, swinging your arms around and hitting everyone within your reach."[9] This aspect of slamdancing was termed the "Huntington Beach Strut" (or "HB Strut") after the neighborhood of Orange County where it originated. Author Steven Blush writes of the HB Strut:
“
According to lore, Mike Marine, a former U.S. Marine and star of The Decline of Western Civilization, performed the first slamdance in 1979. Marine created a vicious version of punk dancing. He'd smash the fucking face of anyone who would get near him--especially some Hippie, who'd get pulverized.
”
Marine and others in the Huntington Beach and Long Beach areas invented this violent dance and soon exported it to the San Francisco and Bay Area scene, where pogoing was still the prevalent form of dance. From there, it spread to the East Coast scenes through national acts such as Bad Brains and other D.C. area natives such as Henry Rollins and Ian MacKaye who witnessed the HB Strut while traveling.[10]
Because the early American hardcore scene gave way to and coexisted with the burgeoning crossover thrash scene, it, too, became defined in part by slamdancing, although for a while, according to They Might Be Giants' John Linnell, it reached a point where "it didn’t matter what kind of music you were playing or what kind of band you were; everybody moshed to everything. It was just kind of the enforced rule of going to concerts."[11]
[] Wall of Death
The Wall of Death is a form of moshing in which the audience divides into two sections, with a significantly wide gap between them. The two groups then "violently ram into each other".[12]
As with other forms of "extreme dancing", the wall of death has raised safety concerns among concert staff and venue owners, particularly those in charge of crowd regulation. Concert-goers, however, speak positively about the experience and consider it healthy social behavior.[13]
Some bands have developed adaptations of the wall of death such as the "wall of carnage" and "tsunami of death".[12]
Another name for this style of moshing is "Braveheart", likely gleaned from the slow-motion imagery found in this movie of two armies rushing full speed towards one another across an open space and the members crashing violently into each other.

Controversy and anti-moshing stances

Some concert venues do not allow moshing. This notice at a Pearl Jam concert prohibits moshing and crowd surfing in the venue.
Among the first musicians to publicly take issue with moshing was longtime punk singer and songwriter Ian MacKaye, founder of Dischord Records, frontman for such seminal bands as Minor Threat, and early promoter of the straight edge lifestyle. Beginning in the late 1980s, during his time with Fugazi, MacKaye became well known for his opposition to "violent dancing" at shows.
In the 1990s, bands like The Smashing Pumpkins also took a stance against moshing, following some especially tragic incidents. At a 1996 Pumpkins show in Dublin, Ireland, 17-year-old Bernadette O'Brien was crushed by moshing crowd members and later died in the hospital, despite warnings from the band that people were getting hurt.[14] Singer Billy Corgan was heard at another time on stage saying on behalf of his band:[14]
“
I just want to say one thing to you, you young, college lughead-types. I've been watchin' people like you sluggin' around other people for seven years. And you know what? It's the same shit. I wish you'd understand that in an environment like this, and in a setting like this, it's fairly inappropriate and unfair to the rest of the people around you. I, and we, publicly take a stand against moshing!
”
More recently, on September 24, 2007, another fan died at a Smashing Pumpkins concert in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. The man, aged 20, was dragged out of the mosh pit, unconscious, to be pronounced dead at St. Pauls' Hospital after first-aid specialists attempted to help him.[15][16][17]
In another incident, Jessica Michalik died of asphyxiation after being crushed in a mosh pit during the 2001 Australian Big Day Out music festival. The coroner's findings into her death criticized the crowd control measures in use at the time, and also criticized Limp Bizkit lead singer Fred Durst for "alarming and inflammatory" comments during the rescue effort.[18]
Cedric Bixler-Zavala of At the Drive-In and The Mars Volta has been known for his criticism towards moshing due to it's 'conformist nature' and displays a 'lack of Development in Individuality' , He asked crowds to calm down and act safely most famously at Big Day Out 2001 . After the refusal of the crowd, Zavala told the crowd, "I think it's a really sad day when the only way you can express yourself is by slam-dancing!", followed by cries of, “You're a robot, you're a sheep!” and proceeded to baa like a sheep at the crowd several times before the band left the stage around 10 minutes into their set.[19]
Other bands have expressed varying degrees of disapproval regarding mosh pits. Mike Portnoy of Dream Theater, in an interview published on his website, described mosh pits as a "problem":[20]
“
I think our audience have become a little bit more attentive and less of that type of [mosh] mentality [...] I understand you want to release that energy... [but] once people start doing that during "Through Her Eyes" it gets ridiculous [...] So this time around we're consciously aiming at theaters that people can actually sit down and enjoy the show and be comfortable [...] without having to worry about their legs falling off or being kicked in the face by a Mosh Pit. So [that] will probably eliminate that problem anyway.
”

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Moshing is seen or spoken of in various media. The dance is mentioned in a large number of songs by many acts, even directly in the song title as seen in "Caught in a Mosh" by Anthrax, "Milano Mosh" by S.O.D., "Megamosh" by Hyades, "Circle Pit" by Refused, "Thank You For Not Moshing" (Originally "In The Pit") by Reel Big Fish, and "Into the Pit" by Testament. UK indie extreme metal/hardcore label Earache Records always used the word "mosh" as catalogue number signature, while Norwegian black metal label Deathlike Silence Productions used 'Anti Mosh' in their catalogue IDs. Moshing has appeared in cartoons and television series such as South Park[21], Futurama[22], Metalocalypse [23], Mighty Moshin' Emo Rangers and The Awful Truth[24] as well as in video games such as World of Warcraft[25] and Mario Party 8[26]. In World Wrestling Entertainment, superstars Mosh and Thrasher named their tag-team "The Headbangers" and had finishing moves such as the "Stage dive" and "Mosh pit".
During an episode of American sitcom Frasier, Daphne persuades Niles to see Billy Joel, but Niles proclaims "as long as I don't have to go in any moshpit."

^ a b c d Tsitsos, William (1999) Rules of Rebellion: Slamdancing, Moshing, and the American Alternative Scene Popular Music, Vol. 18, No. 3, pp. 397-414
^ a b c Nussbacher, Mike (2004) A Survivor’s Guide To The Mosh Pit. YPP.
^ Pogrebin, Robin (May 9, 1996). "Hard-Core Threat to Health: Moshing at Rock Concerts". The New York Times. Retrieved on 2007-12-14.
^ a b Sacahroff, Reaz (1996) Music: Pit Etiquette. Tucson Weekly.
^ "Bad Brains biography". From 2004's The New Rolling Stone Album Guide. Rolling Stone (2004). Retrieved on 2007-05-14.
^ "Bad Brains - History". peacedogman.com (2002). Retrieved on 2007-05-14.
^ Sound of the Beast: The Complete Headbanging History of Heavy Metal, by ian christie
^ Irvine, Martha (1996) Moshing Exciting but dangerous. Associated Press. at rockmed.org
^ Blush, Steven (2001). American Hardcore: A Tribal History.
^ Rachman, Paul (2006). American Hardcore: The History of American Punk Rock 1980-1986.
^ http://gothamist.com/2008/01/22/john_linnell_th.php The Gothamist, Interview with John Linnell of They Might Be Giants
^ a b Staff (2008-06-02). "'Death circle' raises risks in the mosh pit". The New Zealand Herald. Retrieved on 2008-06-05.
^ Staff (2008-05-30). "Deadly dancing", The Gold Coast Bulletin, p. 31.
^ a b Unknown (May 19, 1996). "Fan Crushed at Smashing Pumpkins Show". MTV.com. Retrieved on 2006-06-23.
^ "Man dies in Smashing Pumpkins mosh pit". yahoo.ca (2007). Retrieved on 2007-09-27.
^ "Man Dies After 'Crowd-Surfing' At SMASHING PUMPKINS Show". BLABBERMOUTH.NET (2007). Retrieved on 2007-09-27.
^ "B.C. man dies after crowd-surfing at rock show". cbc.ca (2007). Retrieved on 2007-09-27.
^ Weir, Ian (2002-11-08). "Findings and Recommendations by the Coronial Inquest into the Death of Jessica Michalik" (PDF). Venue and Event Management Services Pty Ltd.. Retrieved on 2007-03-14.
^ [1] At the Drive-In at Big Day Out, 2001
^ John Kotzian (11 January 2002). "An Interview with Dream Theater's Mike Portnoy". mikeportnoy.com.
^ "Clubhouses", South Park. Original airdate September 23, 1998. The character Kenny dies in a mosh pit at a party.
^ "Hell Is Other Robots", Futurama. Original airdate May 18, 1999. Moshing to the song "Super Disco Breakin" is featured when Fry, Bender and Leela enter a mosh pit at a Beastie Boys concert. Leela hated it, and ended up using martial arts to violently knock nearby moshers unconscious.
^ "Religionklok", Metalocalypse. Original airdate November 19, 2006. Dethklok goes to a Christian rock concert featuring fictional band Prayer Bolt when Toki Wartooth starts a "Christian Rock mosh pit," killing Prayer Bolt's lead singer.
^ Filmmaker Michael Moore attempts to get a presidential candidate of the 2000 primary elections to jump into a traveling mosh pit, with music by Rage Against the Machine.
^ World of Warcraft - Dancing - the undead male character model headbangs/moshes for its dance animation
^ The videogame features a mini game called "Mosh Pit".