What's a moshpit?

All of a sudden I found myself thinking sociologically when I was looking for one of my favorite DVD's at home. While I was trying to find the DVD, I found my Quinceañera video from 2009. I then remembered that at the end of one of my dances, my guy friends who dancing with me wanted to do a "moshpit". I at that time had no clue whatsoever what a moshpit even was. Even though I didn't know what it was, I still said it was fine if they did it (conformity). I later found out during our dance rehearsals what a moshpit was. They tried it and I was scared out of my mind because most of the guys were way taller than me (I'm only 5 feet). They were jumping around and surrounding me at the same time. I thought to myself "I'm going to die if I don't get out of here!!!".

This reminded me of the types of crowds that we were discussing in class this week (or half a week). A moshpit would probably be an expressive crowd because a lot of emotion is attached to it. It shows the energy and joy that the people involved in the moshpit . Maybe the people watching the moshpit are part of the casual crowd since they just look at the moshpit for a while and just leave. The people at my Quinceañera would be a conventional group because they have interests that are similar. I will never look at crowds the same way, unless it's a moshpit, then maybe I'll join in :). (I got over my "fear" of moshpits after the Powder Puff moshpits).