The goth subculture is a youth subculture that started in England during the early 1980s, where it evolved from a gothic rock audience, an offshoot of the post-punk genre. The name, the gothic subculture, comes directly from the music genre. Post-punk and seminal gothic artists who helped develop and shape subcultures including Siouxsie and Banshees, The Cure, Joy Division, and Bauhaus. The gothic subculture has lasted longer than others in the same era, and continues to diversify and spread throughout the world. His imagination and cultural tendencies show the influence of 19th century Gothic literature and gothic horror films. The scene centers on music festivals, nightclubs and organized meetings, especially in Western Europe.
The gothic subculture has an associated taste in music, aesthetics, and fashion. The music preferred by the goth subculture includes a number of different styles, eg. rock goth, death rock, post-punk, new wave, gothabilly, cold waves and dark waves (eg smooth and neoclassical waves). The style of dressing in the subculture draws on punk, new waves and new romantic modes as well as past-period fashions like the Victorian and Edwardian (Belle ÃÆ'â € ° poque), or a combination of the above. Style usually includes dark clothes (often black), makeup pale face and black hair. Subcultures have continued to attract interest from large audiences several decades after its emergence.
Video Goth subculture
Music
Origin and development
The term "gothic rock" was invented in 1967, by music critic John Stickney to describe the encounter he did with Jim Morrison in the dimly lit wine cellar he called "the perfect space to honor the Gothic stone of the Door". In the same year, Velvet Underground with songs like "All Tomorrow's Parties", created a kind of "gothic-rock masterpiece" according to music historian Kurt Loder. In the late 1970s, the words "gothic" were used to describe the atmosphere of post-punk bands such as Siouxsie and Banshees, Magazine, and Joy Division. In a live overview of Siouxsie and the Banshees concert in July 1978, critic Nick Kent wrote that regarding their music, "parallels and comparisons can now be drawn with gothic rock architects like Doors and, of course, the Early Velvet Underground". In March 1979, in his review of second album Secondhand Daylight Magazine, Kent noted that there was "a new, tough sense of authority" in music, with "dank neo-Gothic sound". Later that year, the term was also used by Joy Division manager Tony Wilson on September 15 in an interview for the BBC TV program, Something Else. Wilson described the Joy Division as "gothic" compared to mainstream pop, just before the band's live performances. The term is then applied to "new bands like the Bauhaus that have arrived in the middle of Joy Division and Siouxsie and the Banshees". The first single Bauhaus released in 1979, "Bela Lugosi's Dead", is generally credited as the starting point of the gothic rock genre.
In 1979, Sounds described Joy Division as "Gothic" and "theatrical". In February 1980, Melody Maker qualified the same band as this "Gothic gothic master". Critics Jon Savage later said that their singer Ian Curtis wrote "a definite North Gothic statement". However, it was not until the early 1980s that gothic rock became a coherent subgenre of music in post-punk, and that followers of these bands began to join as a clearly recognizable movement. They may have taken the "goth" coat from a 1981 article published in the British rock weekly Sounds: The Face of Punk Gothique, written by Steve Keaton. In a text about Decay's English audience, Keaton asked: "Could this be the Punk Gothique? With the Bauhaus flying over the same wing, can it be the next big thing?" In July 1982, the Batcave opening at Soho London provided a prominent meeting point for the emerging scene, to be labeled a "punk positive" short by NME in a special edition with a front cover in early 1983. The term " Batcaver "is then used to describe old school goths.
Independent of the British scene, in the late 1970s and early 1980s in California, deathrock evolved as a different American punk rock branch, with acts such as Christian Death and 45 Grave.
Gothic Genre
The bands that define and embrace the genre of gothic rock include Bauhaus, early Adam and Ant, Healing, Birthday Party, Southern Death Cults, Specimens, Kids Sex Gang, UK Decay, Virgin Prunes, Killing Joke, and the Damned. Near the peak of the first generation of gothic scenes in 1983, Paul Rambali recalled that there were "some strong Gothic characteristics" in Joy Division music. In 1984, Joy Division bassist Peter Hook named Play Dead as one of their heirs: "If you listen to a band like Play Dead, which I like best, Joy Division plays the same thing as Play Dead playing.
In the mid-1980s, the band began to multiply and became increasingly popular, including Mercy Sisters, Mission (known as British Mission in the US), Alien Sex Fiend, the March Violets, Xmal Deutschland, the Membranes, and Fields of Nephilim. Recording labels such as Factory, 4AD and Beggars Banquet released much of this music in Europe, and through the dynamic import music market in the US, growing subcultures, especially in New York and Los Angeles, California, where many nightclubs feature "gothic/industrial" night. The popularity of 4AD bands resulted in the creation of the same US label, Projekt, which produces what is called the ethereal wave, the subgenre of dark wave music.
The 1990s saw further growth for several bands of the 1980s and the emergence of many new acts, as well as new goth-centric US record labels like Cleopatra Records, among others. According to Dave Simpson of The Guardian , "in the 90s, goths all but disappeared as dance music into a dominant youth cult". Consequently, goth "underground and erroneous movements for cyber goth, Shock rock, Industrial metal, Gothic metal, Medieval folk metal and latest subgenre, horror punk". Marilyn Manson is seen as a "goth-shock icon" by Spin .
Maps Goth subculture
The influence of art, history, and culture
The Goth subculture of the 1980s was inspired by various sources. Some are modern or contemporary, others are centuries old or ancient. Michael Bibby and Lauren M. E. Goodlad likened the subculture to bricolage. Among the subcultures of music that influenced him were Punk, new waves, and Glam. But it also gets inspiration from B movies, Gothic literature, horror movies, vampire cults, Neo-noir science fiction films like Ridley Scott Blade Runner and traditional mythology. Among the myths proved influential in Goth are Celtic mythology, Christian mythology, Egyptian mythology, and various Pagan traditions.
The numbers calculated by the movement between his ancestral historical canons are equally varied. They included the Pre-Raphael Brethren, Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900), Comte de Lautrà © amont (1846-1870), Salvador DalÃÆ' (1904-1989) and Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980). Authors with significant influence on movement also represent multiple canons. They included Ann Radcliffe (1764-1823), John William Polidori (1795-1821), Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849), Sheridan Le Fanu (1814-1873), Bram Stoker (1847-1912), Oscar Wilde (1854- 1900), HP Lovecraft (1890-1937), Anne Rice (1941-), William Gibson (1948-), Ian McEwan (1948-), Storm Constantine (1956-), and Poppy Z. Brite (1967-).
18th and 19th centuries
Gothic literature is a fictional genre that combines romance and dark elements to produce mystery, suspense, terror, horror and supernatural. According to David H. Richter, the arrangement is framed to take place in "... a destructive castle, a dreary church, crowded monasteries, and lonely mountain roads." Typical characters consist of cruel parents, evil priests, brave winners, and helpless female heroes, along with supernatural figures such as demons, vampires, ghosts, and monsters. Often, the plot focuses on badly characterized, internally opposed, and accidentally victimized by harassing evil characters. In addition to the bleak plot focus, the tradition of gothic literature also focuses on individual characters who gradually become insane.
The English writer Horace Walpole, with his 1764 novel The Castle of Otranto is one of the first authors to explore this genre. The American Revolutionary War-era "American Gothic" story of Headless Horseman, enshrined in "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" (published in 1820) by Washington Irving, marks the arrival in a dark New World, a romantic story. The story was composed by Irving when he lived in England, and is based on the popular stories narrated by Dutch Dutch settlers in the Hudson Valley of New York. The story will be adapted to the film in 1922, in 1949 as animated The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad , and again in 1999.
Throughout the evolution of the gothic subculture, romantic classics, Gothic and literary horror have played an important role. ETA Hoffmann (1776-1822), Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849), Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867), HP Lovecraft (1890-1937), and other tragic and romantic writers have become symbols of subcultures as the use of dark eyeliner or dressed in black. In fact, Baudelaire, in his foreword to Les Fleurs du mal, writes a line that can serve as a kind of goth malediction:
Visual art effects
The gothic subculture has influenced different artists - not just musicians - but also painters and photographers. Especially their work is based on mystical, morbid and romantic motives. In photography and spectrum paintings vary from erotic artwork to romantic vampire or ghostly images. There is a marked preference for color and dark sentiments, similar to Gothic fiction. At the end of the 19th century, painters such as John Everett Millais and John Ruskin created a new type of Gothic.
20th century influences
Some people praised Jalacy "Screamin 'Jay" Hawkins, probably best known for his 1956 song "I Put A Spell On You," as a foundation of goth styles and modern music. Some people praised the band's first single Bauhaus "Bela Lugosi's Dead", released in August 1979, with the commencement of the gothic subculture.
21st century
The British sitcom, The IT Crowd features a recurring goth character named Richmond Avenal, played by Noel Fielding. Fielding said in an interview that he himself was a goth at the age of fifteen and that he had a series of gothic boyfriends. This is the first time she has dabbled in makeup. Fielding said he loved his girlfriends.
Scenery characteristics
Icons
Notable examples of goth icons include several bandleaders: Siouxsie Sioux, from Siouxsie and Banshees; Robert Smith, of The Cure; Peter Murphy, from Bauhaus; Rozz Williams, of Christian Death; Jonathan Melton aka Jonny Slut, of Specimen (who created the clothes and style of "Batcave"), Ian Curtis, of Joy Division; and Dave Vanian, of The Damned. Some members of the Bauhaus are, themselves, art students or active artists. Nick Cave was dubbed the "great master of gothic lushness". Nico is also a famous icon of gothic and musical fashion, with pioneering notes such as The Marble Index and Desertshore and the person he adopted after they were released.
Mode
Influences
One of the female role models is Theda Bara, a femme fatale 1910 known for its dark eyeshadow. In 1977, Karl Lagerfeld hosted the SoirÃÆ' Â © e Moratoire Noir party, which established the "tenue tragique noire absolument obligatoire" (a black tragic dress absolutely necessary). This event includes elements related to leatherman style.
The African and Caribbean influence on gothic style is often missing from the conversation: Jalacy "Screamin 'Jay" Hawkins uses voodoo imagery mixed with "scary play" to create a unique style, placing it as one of the first goths. He often uses stage props that reflect his goth and voodoo styles, such as skulls, sticks, candles, tombstones, and bones.
Siouxsie Sioux is very influential on the style of dress from the Gothic rock scene; Paul Morley from NME described the appearance of Siouxsie and the Banshees 1980 in Futurama: "[Siouxsie] modeled his latest outfit, which will affect how all girls dress for the next few months." About half of the girls in Leeds have used Sioux as the basis of their appearance, hair to ankle. "Robert Smith, Musidora, Bela Lugosi, Bettie Page, Vampira, Morticia Addams, Nico, Rozz Williams, David Bowie, Lux Interior, Dave Vanian, also a style icon.
The 1980s established designers such as Drew Bernstein of Lip Service, while the 1990s witnessed a spike in US-based gothic fashion designers, many of whom continue to evolve through today's styles. Fashion magazines like Gothic Beauty have provided repetitive features to some of the gothic fashion designers who started their labels in the 1990s, such as Kambriel, Rose Mortem, and Tyler Ondine from Heavy Red.
Styling
Gothic mode is characterized by dark, old and homogeneous features. This stereotype as scary, mysterious, complex and exotic. A dark fashion, sometimes morbid and dressed styles, typical gothic modes include pale skin with colored black hair and black period-style clothes. Both male and female goths can wear dark eyeliner and dark nail polish, especially black. Style is often borrowed from punk fashion and - more current - from the Victorian and Elizabethan periods. It also often reveals paganism, occultism or other religions. Fashion and Gothic styling can also feature silver jewelry and piercings.
Ted Polhemus describes the goth mode as "a collection of black velvet, lace, fishnets and leather colored with red or purple, fitted with corsets, gloves, stilettos and sterling silver jewelry depicting religious or occult themes".
In contrast to Victorian and Elizabetian delights owned by LARP in the 2000s, the Romantic side of the 1980s trad-goth - especially represented by women - is characterized by a new wave-oriented/post-punk style (both long and short, partially shaved and flirted) and street-appropriate clothing, including black frills, midi dresses or long skirts, and floral lace trousers, Martens, jump shoes (pumps), and pointed pointed toe boots (winklepickers), sometimes equipped with accessories such as bracelets, chokers and bib necklaces. This style, retroactively referred to as Ethergoth , took its inspiration from Siouxsie Sioux and the mid-1980s protagonists from 4AD lists such as Liz Fraser and Lisa Gerrard.
Researcher Maxim W. Furek states that "Goth is a rebellion against the neat fashion of the 1970s disco era and protests against the pastel colors and luxuries of the 1980s." Black hair, dark clothes and pale skin give the basic look of a Goth Dresser. paradoxically argues that the Goth look is one of the deliberate exaggerated statements as just a casual view of heavy emphasis on flowing dark robes, cuffs of ruffles, pale makeup and colored hair showing the modern version of the late Victorian merit.
The New York Times notes: "Costumes and ornaments are a glamorous cover for the cheap themes of the genre. In the Goth world, nature itself lurks as an evil protagonist, causing rotting flesh, rivers flooding, monuments to collapse and women turning into slatterns, their hair flowing and lipstick tilting. "
Cintra Wilson states that the origins of the dark romantic style are found in "the cult of Victorian mourning." Valerie Steele is an expert in style history.
Reciprocity
Gothic fashion has a reciprocal relationship with the fashion world. At the end of the first decade of the 21st century, designers like Alexander McQueen, Anna Sui, Rick Owens, Gareth Pugh, Ann Demeulemeester, Philipp Plein, Hedi Slimane, John Richmond, John Galliano, Olivier Theyskens and Yohji Yamamoto carry elements from the goth to the runway. It's described as "Haute Goth" by Cintra Wilson at the New York Times .
Thierry Mugler, Claude Montana, Jean Paul Gaultier and Christian Lacroix have also been linked to fashion trends. In Spring 2004, Riccardo Tisci, Jean Paul Gaultier, Raf Simons, and Stefano Pilati wore their models as "magical ghosts dressed in coat-fitting suits and coal-colored cocktail dresses". Swedish designer Helena Horstedt and jeweler Hanna Hedman are also practicing gothic aesthetics.
Critique
Gothic styles often go hand in hand with aesthetics, authenticity and expression, and are largely regarded as "artistic concepts". Clothing is often self-designed.
Recently, especially in the framework of the commercialization of parts of the Goth subculture, many people who are not involved develop interest in dark fashion and begin to adopt elements of Goth clothing (especially mass-produced goods from malls) without connecting to the basics of subcultures, for example Gothic music and Gothic lifestyle. In the Goth movement they have been regularly described as poseurs or mallgoths. (see also Identity section).
Movies
Some early gothic rock and deathrock artists adopted images of traditional horror films and drew the soundtrack of horror movies for inspiration. Their audience responded by adopting proper clothes and props. The use of standard horror film props like swirling smoke, rubber bats, and cobwebs are featured as a gothic club dÃÆ'Â © cor from scratch in The Batcave. Such references in music and band pictures were originally tongue-in-cheek, but over time, bands and subcultures took a more serious relationship. As a result, the morbid, supernatural and occult themes become more serious in the subculture. The interconnection between horror and goth was highlighted in the early days by The Hunger , a 1983 vampire movie starring David Bowie, Catherine Deneuve and Susan Sarandon. The film features the Bauhaus gothic rock group performing Bela Lugosi's Dead at nightclubs. Tim Burton creates a storybook atmosphere filled with darkness and shadows in several films such as Beetlejuice (1988), Batman (1989), Edward Scissorhands (1990 ), and the stop motion film The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993), produced/written by Burton, and
As the subculture becomes established, the relationship between goth and horror fiction becomes almost cliché, with goths quite likely to appear as characters in horror and movie novels. For example, the The Craft , Crow , The Matrix and Underworld film series draw directly on goth and style music. Dark Beatlejuice , Faculty , American Beauty , Wedding Crashers and some episodes of TV animation show South Park describes or parodies the gothic subculture. At South Park , some fictitious school children are described as goths. The gothic boys on the show were described as finding it annoying to be confused with the Hot Topic "vampire" kids from the episode of "The Ungroundable" in season 12. and even more frustrating to be compared to emo kids. Gothic children are usually portrayed listening to goth music, writing or reading Gothic poetry, drinking coffee, turning hair and smoking.
Books and magazines
The prominent American literary influence on the goth scene was given by Anne Rice re-imagining vampires in 1976. In The Vampire Chronicles, Rice's character is described as a self-torturer who struggles with alienation, loneliness, and human condition. Not only are characters torturing themselves, but they also portray a surrealist world that focuses on exposing its splendor. These chronicles assumed gothic attitudes, but they were not deliberately made to represent the gothic subculture. Their intimacy, beauty, and erotic charm attracted many gothic readers, making it work very popular from the 1980s to the 1990s. While the Goths have embraced Vampire literature both in the form of the 19th century and in its later incarnations, postmodern Rice takes on the myth of vampires having had a "special resonance" in the subculture. His vampire novels feature strong emotions, period clothes, and "cultural decadence". The vampires are socially exiled monster, but they are also very interesting. Rice gothic readers tend to imagine themselves in much the same way and see characters like Lestat de Lioncourt as role models.
Richard Wright's Native Son contains gothic images and themes that show the connection between darkness and gothic; themes and pictures "premonitions, profanity, prophecies, mantras, veils, demon treasures, graves, skeletons" present, showing gothic influences. Other classic themes of gothic are present in the novel, such as breaches and racial identity, class, gender, and unstable nationalities.
The re-imagination of vampires continued with the release of Poppy Z. Brite Lost Souls in October 1992. Despite the fact that Brite's first novel was criticized by some of the main sources for allegedly "lacking [a] moral center: either terrible or unseen magical creatures (such as the protagonist Anne Rice) torturing souls split between good and evil, this vampire only adds drinking blood to the immoral arsenal of drug abuse, the problem of drinking and the empty sex done by their human peers Many of those so-called "human colleagues" identified with reference to joy and gothic teenagers in them, keeping the book in print.After the release of the special 10th anniversary edition of Lost Souls , > Weekly Publishers - the same magazine that criticized the "immorality" of the novel a decade earlier - considered it a "classic modern horror" and admitted that Brite formed "my audience ltus ".
Neil Gaiman's novel graphic series The Sandman influenced the goth with characters like dark and reflective Dream and his sister Death. The 2002 release 21st Century Goth by Mick Mercer, a leading writer, music journalist and historian of gothic rock, explores the modern state of the goth scene around the world, including South America, Japan and the Asian mainland. The previous 1997 release, Hex Files: The Goth Bible , also took an international view of the subculture.
In the US, Propaganda is a gothic subculture magazine founded in 1982. In Italy, Ver Sacrum includes Italian goth scenes, including fashion, sexuality, music, art and literature. Several magazines, such as those now dying Dark Realms and Goth Is Dead include gothic fiction and poetry. Other magazines include modes (for example, Gothic Beauty ); music (e.g., Renewal ) or culture and lifestyle (e.g., Althaus e-zine).
31 October 2011 ECW Press publishes Encyclopedia Gothica written by writer and poet Liisa Ladouceur with an illustration by Gary Pullin. This non-fiction book explains more than 600 words and phrases relevant to the Goth subculture.
Graphic art
Contemporary visual graphic artists with aesthetics include Gerald Brom, Dave McKean, and Trevor Brown and illustrators Edward Gorey, Charles Addams, Lorin Morgan-Richards, and James O'Barr. The artwork of a surrealist painter Polish, Zdzis? Aw Beksi? Skiing is often described as gothic. British artist Anne Sudworth published a book on gothic art in 2007.
Events
Goth scenes continue to exist in the 2010s. In Western Europe, there are major annual festivals especially in Germany, including Wave-Gotik-Treffen (Leipzig) and M'era Luna (Hildesheim), both annually attracting tens of thousands of participants. The Lumous Gothic Festival (better known as Lumous) is the largest festival dedicated to the gothic subculture in Finland and the northernmost gothic festival in the world. Ukrainian festival "Deti Nochi: Chorna Rada" (Children's night) is the largest gothic event in Ukraine. Goth events such as "Ghoul School" and "Release the Bats" promote deathrock and are attended by fans from many countries, and events like the Drop Dead Festival in the US attract participants from more than 30 countries. The Whitby Goth Weekend is a goth music festival twice a year in Whitby, North Yorkshire, England. In the US, shows like Bats Day in Fun Park celebrate culture, as well as Goth Cruise, and Gothic Cruise.
Interior Design
In the 1980s, goths adorned their walls and ceilings with black fabrics and accessories such as rosaries, crosses, and plastic roses. Black furniture and objects related to graves such as candlesticks, death lanterns, and skulls. In the 1990s the interior design approach in 1980 was replaced by a less horrific style.
Sociology
Gender and sexuality
Since the late 1970s, the British goth scene has rejected the "traditional standard of sexual propriety" and accepts and celebrates "unusual, strange or distorted sexual practices". In the 2000s, many members "... claimed overlapping membership in queer, polyamorous, enslavement-discipline/sadomasochism, and pagan communities".
Although sexual empowerment is not unique to women in goth scenes, it remains an important part of the experience of many goth women: "... [s] active sexual celebration" allows goth women "... to reject the mainstream idea of ​​passive femininity". They have an "active sexuality" approach that creates "gender egalitarianism" in the scene, because "it allows them to engage in sexual play with multiple partners while avoiding most of the stigma and dangers that women engaging in such behavior" are off-screen. often happens, while continuing to "... see themselves as strong".
Men dress up in sex: "... men 'gender blend,' wearing makeup and skirts'. On the contrary, "... women wear sexy feminine clothes" are "... very sexual" and often combine "... corsets with short skirts and fishnet stockings". Androgyny is common among scenes: "... androgyny in the style of Goth subcultures often disguise or even serve to reinforce the role of conventional gender". It's just "valorised" for goths men, who adopt a "feminine" appearance, including "makeup, feminine skirts and accessories" to "enhance masculinity" and facilitate the role of traditional heterosexual courtship.
Identity
While goth "is considered a music-based scene", "... being a Goth implies more of the musical tastes together; it's... an 'aesthetic,' a particular way to see and be seen." Observers have raised the issue at what level individuals are actually members of the gothic subculture. At one end of the spectrum is "Uber goth", a person described as looking so pale so much that he "... as much as white foundation and white powder is possible". At the other end of the spectrum, other authors call "poseurs": "goth wannabes, usually youngsters through gothic phases that have no goth sensitivity but want to be part of the goth crowd..". It is said that "goth mall" is a teenager dressed in goth style and spending time in a mall with a Hot Topic store, but who does not know much about the goth subculture or his music, making him a pretender. In one case, even a well-known player has been labeled with derogatory terms: a number of "goths, especially those included in this subculture before the late 1980s, reject Marilyn Manson as a poseur that undermines the true meaning of gothic."
Media and academic comments
The BBC describes academic research that indicates that gothics are "subtle and sensitive, interested in poetry and books, not big on drugs or anti-social behavior". Teenagers often live in subcultures "into their adult lives", and they tend to become educated and enter professions like medicine or law. This subculture appeals to teens looking for meaning and identity. The scene teaches teenagers that there are tough aspects of life that you "must try to understand" or explain.
The Guardian reports that "the glue that binds the [goth] scene together is drug use"; However, at the scene, drug use varies. Goth is one of several subculture movements unrelated to a single drug, in the way that the Hippie subculture is associated with marijuana and the Mod subculture is associated with amphetamines. A 2006 study on younger goth found that those with higher goth identification rates had higher drug use.
Media perception of violence and self harm
Goth scenes are often described as non-violent. However, two non-peer-reviewed studies by A.S.H.A. concludes a higher-than-average tendency toward violence, and for one of the papers, self-harm, in the gothic subculture.
School shooting
In the weeks following the Columbine High School massacre of 1999, media reports about armed teenagers, Harris and Klebold, described them as part of a gothic cult. The increased suspicion of the gothic subculture is then manifested in the media. This leads to a moral panic over youth involvement in the gothic subculture and a host of other activities, such as violent video games. Harris and Klebold were originally regarded as members of "The Trenchcoat Mafia"; an informal club inside Columbine High School. Then, such characterizations are considered untrue.
The media reported that gunmen in the 2006 Dawson College shooting in Montreal, Quebec, Kimveer Singh Gill, were interested in the gothic subculture. Gill's love of Gothic culture is an interesting topic of the media, and it is widely reported that the word "Goth", in Gill's writings, is a reference to industrial subcultures and alternative gothics rather than references to gothic rock music. Gill, who committed suicide after the attack, wrote in his online journal: "I'm sick of hearing about athletes and preparations that make life difficult for gothic and others that look different, or different." Gill portrays herself in her profile on Vampirefreaks.com as "... Ditch... Death Angel" and she states that "Metal and Goth kick ass". An image gallery on Gill's Vampirefreaks.com blog has photographs of him pointing a gun at the camera or wearing a long black trench coat.
Mick Mercer states that Gill is "not a Goth, never a Goth." The bands he listed as his preferred bashing form are endless metal and grunge, rock and goth metal standards, with some industry presence ". Mercer stated that "Kimveer Gill listened to the metal", "He has nothing to do with the Goth" and further commented "I realize that like many Neos [new guys], Kimveer Gill might even believe that he is somehow a Goth, 're [Neophytes] is only really famous for its spectacular point loss. "
Prejudice and violence directed at goths
Partly because of the public misunderstanding surrounding gothic aesthetics, people in the gothic subculture sometimes suffer prejudice, discrimination, and intolerance. As with members of various subcultures and other alternative lifestyles, outsiders sometimes marginalize the goth, either by intent or coincidence. Actress Christina Hendricks talks about being bullied as a goth at school and how difficult it is for her to face community pressure: "Kids can be very judgmental to different people, but instead of tearing down and adjusting, I remain firm and probably why I am unhappy. My mother was embarrassed and kept telling me how bad and ugly I was, strangers would walk with shocked expressions on their faces, so I never felt beautiful I always felt awkward Prejudice moved people to the circle of ties in which they shared experiences similar and accepted.The young Goths must define themselves and learn beauty is a cultural relativism aspect.
On August 11, 2007, the couple who walked through Stubbylee Park in Bacup, Lancashire, England were attacked by a group of teenagers because they were goths. Sophie Lancaster later died of her injuries. On April 29, 2008, two teenagers, Ryan Herbert and Brendan Harris, were convicted for the Lancaster murder and given life sentences; the other three were given a lower penalty for an attack on his girlfriend, Robert Maltby. In punishing, Judge Anthony Russell stated, "This is a racial crime against these truly harmless people because their appearance is different from yours". He went on to defend the gothic community, calling the goths "very peaceful and law-abiding people who do not threaten anyone". Judge Russell added that he "acknowledged it as a crime of hatred without Parliament should tell him to do that and incorporate that view in his punishment". Despite this decision, the bill to increase discrimination based on subculture affiliation with the definition of hate crime in English law is not presented to parliament.
In 2013, police in Manchester announced they would treat attacks against members of alternative subcultures, such as Goths, just as they do for attacks based on race, religion, and sexual orientation.
Learn to hurt yourself
A study published in the British Medical Journal concluded that "identification as belonging to the Goth subculture [at some point in their lives] is the best predictor of self-harm and suicide [among young adolescents]," and it's most likely due to selection mechanisms (those who want to injure themselves are later identified as goths, thus increasing the percentage of those who identify as Goths). According to The Guardian , some goth teens are more likely to hurt themselves or attempt suicide. A medical journal study of 1,300 Scottish schoolchildren to their adolescence found that 53% of goth boys tried to harm themselves and 47% had attempted suicide. The study found that "the correlation is stronger than other predictors". The study was based on a sample of 15 teenagers identified as Goth, of which 8 had hurt themselves by any method, 7 had hurt themselves by cutting, scratching or printing, and 7 had attempted suicide.
The authors argue that the bulk of self-harm by teens is done before joining the subculture, and that joining the subculture will actually protect them and help them face adversity in their lives. The authors insist that the study is based on small numbers and on replication needs to confirm the outcome. This study was criticized for using only a small sample of goth teens and did not take into account the effects and other differences between goth types; by taking the study of more people.
See also
- History of modern Western subculture
- List of gothic festivals
- List of gothic rock artists
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