HISTORY AND BACKGROUND
- The words Goth and Gothic have had many, largely unrelated meanings in the past:
- the name of the Germanic Visigoth tribes that overthrew the Roman Empire. From this source arose the concept of a Goth as an uncivilized person, a barbarian. Later in the nineteenth century, was named to an artistic movement whose architectural style left out the idea of strength and gave way to a magnificent beauty.
- Goth, as a modern movement, started as one component of the punk rock scene. As the latter faded, Goth survived by creating its own subculture.
- The first use of the term Goth in its present meaning is believed to have been on a British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) TV program. Anthony H. Wilson, manager of Joy Division described the band as Gothic compared with the pop mainstream. The name stuck.
- Their use of black clothing was originally "something of a backlash to the colorful disco music of the seventies." 5 It also stuck.
- The movement first became established in the Batcave, a nightclub in London, England, in the early 1980's.
- They were called "new romantic" because their culture was born out of nineteenth century Romanticism. Are commonly associated with satanic cults, death and depression. The society does not understand, because he thinks that his ideals are unfounded. They appreciate the darker recesses of the human mind and look for beauty where others find nostalgia.
- Romanticism emerged in the first half of the nineteenth century in Western Europe. This kind of art was characterized by moods and express deep feelings, and by avoiding clarity. Lord Byron and Mary Shelley, who told their stories in places gloomy, created a branch of the more sinister and melancholy Romanticism that later became known as Gothic. That's why now known to these authors as the first two Gothic history.
o A style of architecture in Western Europe which was popular from the 12th to the 16th century.
o A style of horror/mystery literature that is dark, eerie and gloomy.
ORIGINS AND DEVELOPMENT
By the late 1970s, there were a few post-punk bands labeled "gothic". However, it was not until the early 1980s that gothic rock became its own subgenre within post-punk, and that followers of these bands started to come together as a distinctly recognizable movement. The scene appears to have taken its name from an article published in UK rock weekly Sounds: "The face of Punk Gothique",written by Steve Keaton and published on February 21, 1981. The opening of the Batcave in London's Soho in July 1982 provided a prominent meeting point for the emerging scene, which had briefly been labeled positive punk by the New Musical Express.[5] The term "Batcaver" was later used to describe old-school goths.
Independent from the British scene, the late 1970s and early 1980s saw death rock branch off from American punk. In 1980s and early 1990s, members of an emerging subculture in Germany were called Grufti[e]s (English "vault creatures" or "tomb creatures"); they generally followed a fusion of the gothic and new wave with an influence of new romantic, and formed the early stages of the "dark culture" (formerly called "dark wave culture").
· After post-punk
After the waning in popularity of post-punk, the subculture diversified both musically and visually. This caused variations in the "types" of goth. Local scenes also contributed to this variation. By the 1990s, Victorian fashion saw a renewed popularity in the goth scene, drawing on the mid-19th century gothic revival and the more morbid aspects of Victorian culture.
