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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 ...
Other former punks searching for a new direction around 1979 eventually developed into the nucleus of what became the goth subculture. The goths are a subculture of dark dress and gloomy romanticism. Unlike the New Romantics, goth has lasted into the 21st century. In the UK, goth reached its popular peak in the late 1980s.
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 ...
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. 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
The use of subculture terminology in the 21st century to categorize or interpret dress style is often inaccurate, or at the least does not provide a complete picture of the individual being assessed by their 'look,' due to the constant evolution in the meaning, relevance and cohesion of certain subcultures and even the term 'subculture' itself. [7]
Goth culture may refer to: Goths § Culture; Goth subculture; See also. Goth (disambiguation) Gothic religion (disambiguation) This page was last edited on 27 ...
The term Gothic for high medieval architecture was originally a perjorative term used during the Renaissance for styles considered archaic and barbaric. A separate sense refers to members of the current Goth subculture. Gringo A foreigner; especially used disparagingly against North Americans and Europeans in Latin America.