Title: Goth subculture - Wikipedia
Headings: Goth subculture
Goth subculture
Contents
Music
Origins and development
Gothic genre
Art, historical and cultural influences
18th and 19th centuries
Visual art influences
20th century influences
21st century
Characteristics of the scene
Icons
Fashion
Influences
Styling
Reciprocity
Critique
Films
Books and magazines
Graphic art
Events
Interior design
Sociology
Gender and sexuality
Identity
Media and academic commentary
Perception on nonviolence
School shootings
Prejudice and violence directed at goths
Self-harm study
See also
References
Citations
Bibliography
Further reading

Content: In a live review about a Siouxsie and the Banshees' concert in July 1978, critic Nick Kent wrote that, concerning their music, " [P]arallels and comparisons can now be drawn with gothic rock architects like the Doors and, certainly, early Velvet Underground". In March 1979, in his review of Magazine's second album Secondhand Daylight, Kent noted that there was "a new austere sense of authority" in the music, with a "dank neo-Gothic sound". Later that year, the term was also used by Joy Division 's manager, Tony Wilson on 15 September in an interview for the BBC TV programme's Something Else. Wilson described Joy Division as "gothic" compared to the pop mainstream, right before a live performance of the band. The term was later applied to "newer bands such as Bauhaus who had arrived in the wake of Joy Division and Siouxsie and the Banshees". Bauhaus's first single issued in 1979, " Bela Lugosi's Dead ", is generally credited as the starting point of the gothic rock genre. In 1979, Sounds described Joy Division as "Gothic" and "theatrical". In February 1980, Melody Maker qualified the same band as "masters of this Gothic gloom". Critic Jon Savage would later say that their singer Ian Curtis wrote "the definitive Northern Gothic statement". However, it was not until the early 1980s that gothic rock became a coherent music subgenre within post-punk, and that followers of these bands started to come together as a distinctly recognizable movement.