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A woman dressed in gothic style in June 2008. Goth is a subculture that began in the United Kingdom during the early 1980s. It was developed by fans of gothic rock, an offshoot of the post-punk music genre.
Gothic rock (also called goth rock or simply goth) is a style of rock music that emerged from post-punk in the United Kingdom in the late 1970s. The first post-punk bands which shifted toward dark music with gothic overtones include Siouxsie and the Banshees , [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Joy Division , [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] Bauhaus , [ 2 ] [ 3 ] and the Cure .
According to both Pitchfork [1] and NME, [2] proto-goth bands included Joy Division, [1] [2] [3] Siouxsie and the Banshees, [1] [2] Bauhaus [1] [2] and the Cure. [1] [2] The term was first used by critic John Stickney in 1967 to describe the music and accompanying performances by the Doors. The Doors' lyrics and their "audience-antagonizing ...
View history; General ... Gothic rock, a style of rock music; Goth subculture, ... New Gothic, a contemporary art movement
Initially, drum machines were not a regular part of the shoegazing genre but a basic component of new wave, post-punk, and gothic rock music. [51] In contrast to shoegazing, ethereal wave usually features a traditional early 1980s post-punk and gothic rock signature, [99] devoid of any influences of the simultaneously existing noise pop ...
The "Gothic subculture" is specifically linked to the post-punk, gothic metal and dark neoclassical subsets within the scene, while the term "goth subculture represents an even more narroved down subset, specifically linked to dark offshoots of post-punk music," and thus only represents a small portion of the large spectrum of dark culture ...
A crucial source on Gothic history is the Getica of the 6th-century historian Jordanes, who may have been of Gothic descent. [31] [32] Jordanes claims to have based the Getica on an earlier lost work by Cassiodorus, but also cites material from fifteen other classical sources, including an otherwise unknown writer, Ablabius.
Gothabilly (sometimes hellbilly [1]) is music genre influenced by rockabilly and the goth subculture.The name is a portmanteau word that combines gothic and rockabilly, first used by the Cramps in the late 1970s to describe their somber blend of rockabilly and punk rock.