Hardcore, hard-core i hardkor
HARDCORE, HARD-CORE I HARDKOR

Summary/Abstract: Internet users mainly consider ‘hardcore’ in connection with somethingextreme (eg. sports), which ensures maximum intensity of dangerousexperience or resistance to change. ‘Hardcore’ is also name of the stylein music, which in the 1980s was initiated by the second wave of punkbands. At the same time it applies to the genre of electronic music.Inhomogeneous concept of hardcore is associated with its earlier usethan those that we now know. The word ‘hardcore’ was also used as thename of a base for road construction (eg. small stones, pieces of brickand grits), and/or to describe difficult/extreme physical exercise. However,before the term ended up in the language of culture, it was an economicterm, meaning people who were not only unemployed, but thoseunemployed who have been out of work for a year or longer. The wordappears in the Oxford English Dictionary (1936) in a phrase ‘hard-coreunemployment’ (hard core of unemployed) which can be traced to thedifficult situation of people. In general, the first time it appears in 1930in the texts by Irish parliamentarians. Then, after 1950, it is more oftenused to determine former prisoners, terrorists (pro-segregation), peopleaddicted to hard drugs, and even ... Republicans.Associations with ‘hard’ pornography or hardcore bands of music meantthat deadline was not included in the art and did not function as anaesthetic category. At the same time hardcore, in all its manifestations,the term exists because of its diverse literary layer, as ‘cute’ word, andmany references that make it difficult to ignore.

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