Title: How to Be Goth (with Pictures) - wikiHow Fun
Headings: How to Be Goth
How to Be Goth
Part 1
of 4:
Listening to Goth Music
Part 2
of 4:
Dressing the Part
Part 3
of 4:
Getting into the Mindset
Part 4
of 4:
Getting Involved with the Community
Community Q&A
Tips
Warnings
References
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Content: The song credited to have birthed the goth rock genre is the 1979 single Bela Lugosi's Dead by Bauhaus. Peter Murphy, lead singer of the band, said that the song was supposed to be written tongue-in-cheek and that their mistake was performing it naive seriousness, which changed the way the audience understood it. This song was also played at the beginning of The Hunger, a film popular among goths. Goth rock or gothic rock is a sub-genre of punk rock which was born out of the British post punk scene in the late 70s / early 80s. A nightclub in London named "The Batcave" was opened in 1982 by members of Specimen that catered towards this new flourishing scene. Although the club never named themselves as a "goth club", the club helped bring all the forming elements of goth together. The subculture took inspiration from Gothic architecture such as castles and cathedrals; the Romantic movement originating from the late 1700 and 1800 century and Gothic literature such as The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole where the use of the word "Gothic" was first used in literature , Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, Dracula by Bram Stoker and the works of Edgar Allan Poe. Goth subculture draws inspirations from ancient Celtic, Pagan, Egyptian and Christian mythology and religions and goth fashion combines high chic, antique, retro-kitsch, punk, fetish and secondhand trash elements
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Learn what goth music is.