The Evolution of Goth Culture by Karl Spracklen Beverley Spracklen

Author:Karl Spracklen,Beverley Spracklen
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781787439306
Publisher: Emerald Publishing
Published: 2018-07-25T00:00:00+00:00

Conclusion

It is incorrect to say that goth died in the nineties. What happened was that goth became unfashionable in the music press and the culture industry (Adorno, 1991). Our respondents report a healthy sub-culture operating out of sight of the mainstream, surviving through a sense of community and belonging, and through the application of communicative rationality and action to construct a communicative alternativity. However, what also happened was that goth influenced a new generation of musicians in the metal scene, providing them with the themes of darkness and transgression. For black metal elitists, goth showed a way to be truly evil and against the modern world. For Marilyn Manson the frontman, goth showed a way to find new audiences seeking a chance to be transgressive and to annoy the authorities. Goth in this crucial period, then, existed underground and in plain sight in the mainstream as metal-derived goth, although that version in the mainstream was rejected by some goths in the underground because of its embrace of the logic of instrumental rationality. As we will show in Chapter 8, the centrality of goths in popular culture in the nineties – and the conflation of goths with metallers – would also lead to moral panics about them.

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