Since it first emerged from Britain's punk-rock scene in the late
1970s, goth subculture has haunted postmodern culture and society,
reinventing itself inside and against the mainstream. Goth: Undead
Subculture is the first collection of scholarly essays devoted to
this enduring yet little examined cultural phenomenon. Twenty-three
essays from various disciplines explore the music, cinema,
television, fashion, literature, aesthetics, and fandoms associated
with the subculture. They examine goth's many dimensions-including
its melancholy, androgyny, spirituality, and perversity-and take
readers inside locations in Los Angeles, Austin, Leeds, London,
Buffalo, New York City, and Sydney. A number of the contributors
are or have been participants in the subculture, and several draw
on their own experiences.The volume's editors provide a rich
history of goth, describing its play of resistance and consumerism;
its impact on class, race, and gender; and its distinctive features
as an "undead" subculture in light of post-subculture studies and
other critical approaches. The essays include an interview with the
distinguished fashion historian Valerie Steele; analyses of novels
by Anne Rice, Poppy Z. Brite, and Nick Cave; discussions of goths
on the Internet; and readings of iconic goth texts from Bram
Stoker's Dracula to James O'Barr's graphic novel The Crow. Other
essays focus on gothic music, including seminal precursors such as
Joy Division and David Bowie, and goth-influenced performers such
as the Cure, Nine Inch Nails, and Marilyn Manson. Gothic sexuality
is explored in multiple ways, the subjects ranging from the San
Francisco queercore scene of the 1980s to the increasing influence
of fetishism and fetish play. Together these essays demonstrate
that while its participants are often middle-class suburbanites,
goth blurs normalizing boundaries even as it appears as an
everlasting shadow of late capitalism. Contributors: Heather Arnet,
Michael Bibby, Jessica Burstein, Angel M. Butts, Michael du
Plessis, Jason Friedman, Nancy Gagnier, Ken Gelder, Lauren M. E.
Goodlad, Joshua Gunn, Trevor Holmes, Paul Hodkinson, David Lenson,
Robert Markley, Mark Nowak, Anna Powell, Kristen Schilt, Rebecca
Schraffenberger, David Shumway, Carol Siegel, Catherine Spooner,
Lauren Stasiak, Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock
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