'Goth subculture'

The goth subculture is a contemporary subculture found in many countries. It began in the united kingdom during the early 1980s in the gothic rock scene, an offshoot of the post_punk genre. The goth subculture has survived much longer than others of the same era, and has continued to diversify. Its imagery and cultural proclivities indicate influences from nineteenth century Gothic litereature along with horror movie and to a lesser extent the culture.The goth subculture has associated tastes in music, aesthetics, and fashion, whether or not all individuals who share those tastes are in fact members of the goth subculture. Gothic music encompasses a number of different styles. Common to all is a tendency towards a lugubrius mystical sound and outlook. Styles of dress within the subculture range from deathrock, punk, ,victorian , some Renaissenence and Medievel style attire, or combinations of the above, most often with black attire, makeup and hair.

'Origins and develop'

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 theBatcave in London's Soho in July 1982 provided a prominent meeting point for the emerging scene, which had briefly been labeled positive punk by theNew3 Musical Express. 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").

'The goth scene'

The bands that began the gothic rock and death rock scene were limited in number.By the mid-1990s, styles of music that were heard in venues that goths attended ranged from , death rock, industrial music, Gothabilly, EBM,ambient, experimental, shoegazing, punl rock, 1970s glam rock, indie rock,, to 1980s dance music. This variety was a result of the eclectic playlists of the Independent/Alternative music clubs.Today, the goth music scene thrives in Western-euorope in Germany large festivals such asWave-Gothic-Treffen, m'era luna and others drawing tens of thousands of fans from all over the world.HoweverNorth Americastill sees large scale events, most recently, Chamber's Dark Art & Music Festival

'Fashion'