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A study published on the British Medical Journal concluded that "identification as belonging to the Goth subculture [at some point in their lives] was the best predictor of self harm and attempted suicide [among young teens]", and that it was most possibly due to self-selection, with people committing self harm joining the goth subculture in ...
The Goths [a] were a Germanic people who played a major role in the fall of the Western Roman Empire and the emergence of medieval Europe. [1] [2] [3] They were first reported by Graeco-Roman authors in the 3rd century AD, living north of the Danube in what is now Ukraine, Moldova, and Romania. From here they conducted raids into Roman ...
Goth. Duke University Press. ISBN 978-0-8223-3921-2. Archived from the original on 2021-03-28; Muggleton, David (2002). Inside Subculture: The Postmodern Meaning of Style. Berg Publishers. ISBN 978-1-85973-352-3
In “Goth: A History," Tolhurst says he was inspired by the writings of Joan Didion — and so he weaves in first-person accounts while exploring goth music's origins from punk's anarchy. The ...
Goth is still frequently painted in a “comical way” — heavy makeup, brooding attitude, occult obsession — Tolhurst said. By making light of it or focusing solely on its aesthetic trappings ...
Gothic fashion is a clothing style worn by members of the goth subculture. A dark, sometimes morbid, fashion and style of dress, [1] typical gothic fashion includes black dyed hair and black clothes. [1] Both male and female goths can wear dark eyeliner, dark nail polish and lipstick (most often black), and dramatic makeup. [2]
Mall goths in Basel in 2005. Mall goths (also known as spooky kids) [1] are a subculture that began in the late-1990s in the United States. Originating as a pejorative to describe people who dressed goth for the fashion rather than culture, it eventually developed its own culture centred around nu metal, industrial metal, emo and the Hot Topic store chain.
Tracing the origins of the goth aesthetic is a fool’s errand. While the subculture coalesced within a music scene transitioning from ’70s punk to ’80s new wave, the sensibility has no ...