ISBN:
1787146766
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9781787146761
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (1 online resource)
Edition:
First edition
Series Statement:
Emerald studies in alternativity and marginalization
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Spracklen, Karl Evolution of Goth culture
DDC:
306/.1
Keywords:
Goth culture (Subculture)
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Goths
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Society & culture: general
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POLITICAL SCIENCE ; Public Policy ; Cultural Policy
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SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Anthropology ; Cultural
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SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Popular Culture
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Goth culture (Subculture)
;
Goths
Abstract:
Butler and Lefebvre: Post-Structural Theorists, Post-Structural TheoriesA New Theory of Alternativity; Notes; Chapter 4: The Origin of the Goths; Introduction; Punk Rock as Year Zero, Post-Punk as the Morning After; The First Goths; Bauhaus; The F-Club, John Keenan and Futurama; The Batcave, Specimen, Alien Sex Fiend, Sex Gang Children and Southern Death Cult; Conclusion; Notes; Chapter 5: The Early Deeds of the Goths; Introduction; Back to Leeds in 1983: The Sisters of Mercy and Beyond; (Death) (The) Cult, The Mission and Fields of the Nephilim; The Mission; Fields of the Nephilim.
Abstract:
Conclusion: Fuck the Tories11Chapter 6: The Sisters of Mercy: A Case Study; Introduction; The Sisters of Mercy: A Short History; How the Internet and Popular Culture See the Sisters of Mercy; How Andrew Eldritch Sees the Sisters of Mercy; Fans on the New Sisters' Sound and the Gothness of The Sisters of Mercy; Conclusion; Notes; Chapter 7: The Goths and the Globalisation of Popular Culture; Introduction; The Received Standard Version: Mainstream Goth Died in the Nineties; Extreme Metal, Mainstream Metal and Goth: The Nineties Connections.
Abstract:
Goth Bands and Spaces in the Nineties as Communicative AlternativityConclusion; Notes; Chapter 8: Goths as Harbingers of Doom, and Moral Panics about Them; Introduction; The Liminal Status of Goth in the Christian West; Goth in Islamic Countries; Christian Goth; Conclusion; Notes; Chapter 9: Goth as Virtual Identity and Virtual Culture Online; Introduction; Goth Joins the Internet: The Nineties; Goth on the Internet: The Twenty-Hundreds; Goth on the Internet: The Twenty-Tens; Conclusion; Notes; chapter 10: Whitby Goth Weekend: A Case Study; Introduction; Whitby; Whitby Goth Weekend.
Abstract:
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. They suggest that the only way for goth culture to survive is if it becomes transgressive and radical again
Abstract:
Intro; Emerald Studies in Alternativity and Marginalization; Contents; Chapter 1: An Introduction; Definitions and Frames; The Structure of the Book; Note; Chapter 2: Popular Writers on Goths; Introduction; Academic Writers on Goths; Paul Hodkinson; Carol Siegel; Dunja Brill; Isabella van Elferen and Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock; Popular Writers on Goth; Mick Mercer; Gavin Baddeley; Dave Thompson; Natasha Scharf; The Internet and Wikipedia; Chapter 3: Constructing a New Theory of Alternativity; Introduction; Adorno and Habermas: Structural Theorists, Structural Theories.
Abstract:
Performing 'Alternative', Framing 'Alternative'Conclusion; Notes; Chapter 11: Goth as Fashion Choice; Introduction; The Early Goth Aesthetic; Goth and Metal as Darkwave Transgression; Goth as Fashion Choice(s); Steampunk; Conclusion: Goth in the Mainstream Today; Notes; Chapter 12: The End of Goth?; Introduction; Goth Not Dead?; Goth Not Dead; The End of Goth; Conclusion; Notes; Chapter 13: Conclusion; Introduction; Resistance and Communicative Action; The Future of Goth; Note; References; Index.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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