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Headings: Goth subculture
Goth subculture
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Contents
Music
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Origins and development
Gothic genre
Art: historical and cultural influences
18th and 19th centuries
Visual art influences
20th century influences
Characteristics of the scene
Icons
Fashion
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Films
Books and magazines
Graphic art
Events
Sociology
Gender and sexuality
Identity
Media and academic commentary
Media perceptions on violence and self-harm
School shootings
Prejudice and violence directed at goths
Self-harm study
See also
Notes
Sources
References
Further reading

Content: No such module "Footnotes". 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 recognisable movement. They may have taken the "goth" mantle from a 1981 article published in UK rock weekly Sounds: " The face of Punk Gothique", written by Steve Keaton. In a text about the audience of UK Decay, Keaton asked: " Could this be the coming of Punk Gothique? With Bauhaus flying in on similar wings could it be the next big thing?".