
The Evolution of Goth Culture
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In this book, Spracklen and Spracklen use the idea of collective memory to explore the controversies and boundary-making surrounding the genesis and progression of the modern gothic alternative culture. Spracklen and Spracklen argue that goth as sub-culture in the eighties was initially counter cultural, political and driven by a musical identity that emerged from punk. However, as goth music globalised and became another form of pop and rock music, goth in the nineties retreated into an alternative sub-culture based primarily on style and a sense of transgression and profanity. By this century goth became the focus of teenage rebellions, moral panics and growing commodification of counter-cultural resistance, so that by the goth has effectively become another fashion choice in the late-modern hyper-real shopping malls, devoid generally of resistance and politics.
Goth, like punk, is in danger of being co-opted altogether by capitalism. This book suggests that the only way for goth culture to survive is if it becomes transgressive and radical again.
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The Germanic people who interacted with the Roman Empire are not the Spracklens' topic, but a sub-genre label for a number of bands in the post-punk movement in Britain at the beginning of the 1980s. They trace how it has evolved and expanded to become a globalized cultural practice associated with being alternative and transgressive. Their topics include constructing a new theory of alternativity, The Sisters of Mercy: a case study, Goth as harbingers of doom and moral panics about them, and Goth as fashion choice. -- Annotation (c)2018 * (protoview.com) *More details
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Beverley Spracklen is an independent scholar with an interest in goths and gothic sub-culture. She has researched and co-authored three publications with Karl Spracklen on goths and other alternative subcultures. Until recently she was a professional gothic bellydance teacher and performer, regularly appearing on the stage at Gothla.
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3. Constructing a New Theory of Alternativity
4. The Origin of the Goths
5. The Early Deeds of the Goths
6. The Sisters of Mercy: A Case Study
7. The Goths and the Globalisation of Popular Culture
8. Goths as Harbingers of Doom, and Moral Panics about Them
9. Goth as Virtual Identity and Virtual Culture On-line
10. Whitby Goth Weekend: A Case Study
11. Goth as Fashion Choice
12. The End of Goth?
13. Conclusion
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