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Southern Gothic (also known as Gothic Americana, or Dark Country) is a genre of American music rooted in early jazz, gospel, Americana, gothic rock and post-punk. [25] Its lyrics often focus on dark subject matter.
The Southern Gothic includes stories set in the Southern United States, particularly following the Civil War and set in the economic and cultural decline that engulfed the region. Southern Gothic stories tend to focus on the decaying economic, educational and living standards of the post-Civil War South. There is often a heavy emphasis on race ...
Gothic country is rooted in early jazz, gospel, country, Americana, gothic rock, and post-punk. [1] The genre's lyrics focus on macabre and grim subject matters. [2] J.D. Wilkes, frontman of the band Legendary Shack Shakers, described gothic country as "[taking] an angle that there's something grotesque and beautiful in the traditions of the South, the backdrop of Southern living."
Southern Gothic is a genre frequently identified with grotesques and William Faulkner is often cited as the leading exponent. Flannery O'Connor wrote, "Whenever I'm asked why Southern writers particularly have a penchant for writing about freaks, I say it is because we are still able to recognize one" ( Some Aspects of the Grotesque in Southern ...
The genre also influenced American writing, creating a Southern Gothic genre that combines some Gothic sensibilities, such as the grotesque, with the setting and style of the Southern United States.
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From classics by Jane Eyre and Shirley Jackson to more modern entries in the genre
Light in August is a 1932 novel by American author William Faulkner.It belongs to the Southern gothic and modernist literary genres.. Set in the author's present day, the interwar period, the novel centers on two strangers, a pregnant white woman and a man who passes as white but who believes himself to be of mixed ethnicity.