Goths Subculture

In this fast running life of the Internet, you must have come across the term Goth, but do you really know what it means? How did it start? What was the idea behind it? Let me first explain to you about Goth. It is deemed to be a subculture. Meaning they are a group of people inside a society that set apart themselves from the parent society to which they belong. The culture started to bloom in the early 1980s in the United Kingdom. Its formation is credited to the fans of gothic rock, which is an offshoot of the post-punk music genre.

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Name	Goths Subculture
Other names	Gothic
Origin	1980
Country / Location	United Kingdom
Famous for	music, punk genre, gothic genre subculture,

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Facts about Goths Subculture

• The name Goth is derived from the gothic rock music genre. Not many people know that music critic John Stickney created gothic rock in 1967.

• The Gothic fashion is marked as noticeably dark, antiquated, and harmonized features. They prefer colors including back and red to show their style.

• People from the subculture mostly enjoy the music of various styles including gothic rock, deathrock, post-punk. They also prefer cold wave, darkwave, and ethereal wave.

• Some of the acknowledged artists who aided in extending and profiling the subculture are Siouxsie and the Banshees, Bauhaus, the Cure, and Joy Division.

• It has left a mark of influence not only musicians but also on painters and photographers as well.

• Some other people credited for the foundation of goth style and music are Jalacy “Screamin’ Jay” Hawkins, band Bauhaus.

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