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The Evolution of Goth Culture: The Origins and Deeds of the New Goths

ISBN: 978-1-78714-677-8, eISBN: 978-1-78714-676-1

Publication date: 3 August 2018

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(2018), "Index", Spracklen, K. and Spracklen, B. (Ed.) The Evolution of Goth Culture: The Origins and Deeds of the New Goths (Emerald Studies in Alternativity and Marginalization), Emerald Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 201-207. https://doi.org/10.1108/978-1-78714-676-120181016

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INDEX

Note: Page numbers followed by “n” with numbers indicate notes.

Academic writers on goths
, 9

Brill, Dunja
, 15–17

goth club scene
, 9–10

Hodkinson, Paul
, 10–13

Isabella van Elferen and Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock
, 17–19

Siegel, Carol
, 13–15

Actor-Network Theory
, 18

Ad hominem arguments
, 32

Adornian culture industries
, 169, 176, 185

Adornian–Habermasian critical theory
, 34

Adorno, Theodor (structural theorists)
, 27–31

Alice Cooper
, 98, 108

Alien Sex Fiend
, 50–52

Alternative music scenes
, 3

Alternativity
, 1–5, 7, 34

commodification of
, 31

communicative
, 34–35, 52, 101–104

nature of
, 2–3

new theory of
, 27, 31–35

Amazon
, 124

American Goths
, 108

Annwyn (album)
, 104

Antichrist Superstar (album)
, 97–98, 113

Apple
, 124

iTunes store
, 75

ARPANET
, 123

As the Flower Withers (album)
, 96

Authentic Femininity
, 107

Baddeley, Gavin
, 20–21

Batcave club
, 50–54

‘Bats Day’
, 181, 182

Bauhaus
, 44–46, 158

Beggars Banquet
, 65

‘Bela Lugosi’s Dead’ song
, 44, 45, 130

Biker culture
, 158

Birthday Massacre and Bad Pollyanna
, 145

Black metal
, 2, 15, 97

Black Sabbath
, 108

Bloody Kisses (album)
, 99

Bondage, domination, sadism and masochism (BDSM)
, 112

Bram Stoker International Film Festival
, 142, 143

The Breakfast Club (film)
, 55

Brill, Dunja
, 15–17

British goth culture
, 4

Buffy the Vampire Slayer (television programme)
, 14

The Burning Season (album)
, 104

Butler, Judith (post-structural theorists)
, 31–34

Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND)
, 68

Canon of classical music
, 29

Capitalism
, 31

Ceremony (album)
, 63

Children (album)
, 65

Christian Goth
, 118–120

Christian West, liminal status of goth in
, 109–115

Christianity
, 118

Church Steps
, 146–147

Churchyard
, 146

Click-bait
, 174, 182

Columbine shootings
, 113

Commodification
, 2–4, 12, 28, 38, 68, 74, 75, 141, 164, 180, 181, 186–188

of alternativity
, 31

of culture
, 30

Commodity
, 5, 27, 35, 152

Communicative action
, 30, 34, 185–188

Communicative alternativity
, 34–35, 38, 44, 58, 60, 67–68, 78, 91, 93, 95, 96, 109, 112–113, 125, 126, 131, 135–136, 146, 158, 175, 176, 181, 185–186, 188

Christian Goth and
, 118, 119

goth bands and spaces in nineties as
, 101–104

of post-punk
, 52

Communicative rationality
, 1, 2, 4, 30–31, 34, 67, 125, 129, 161, 175

The Communist Manifesto (Marx and Engels)
, 189

Computer-mediated communication
, 126

Contemporary society
, 3, 33, 161

Content Management System (CMS)
, 134

Conventional research monograph
, 4

Coronation Street (television programme)
, 155, 163, 175, 187

Cosmic Balance
, 166

Cradle of Filth
, 15, 21, 95, 155, 159

The Critique of Everyday Life (Lefebvre)
, 33

The Cult
, 62–64, 66–68, 73, 85, 91, 186

Cultural capital
, 161–162

Culture industry
, 28–29, 34

The Cure
, 21, 40–44, 49, 61

Cyberpunk
, 101, 129, 165

Daily Mail (Brown)
, 156

Dance music
, 89–90, 92, 101, 108, 121

Dark culture
, 76

Dark fashion elements
, 24

Dark leisure
, 1, 132

Darkwave transgression, goth and metal as
, 158–160

Dawnrazor (album)
, 66

“Daze of Future Past” festival
, 47

Death metal
, 94

Death-doom
, 95

Deliverance (album)
, 65

Denial of Service attacks (DoS attacks)
, 132

Devil-worshippers
, 176

The Dialectic of Enlightenment (Adorno)
, 28

Digital culture
, 6, 17, 123, 126, 136

Digital leisure
, 6, 75, 80, 123, 125, 126, 136, 185

Digital synthesisers
, 39

Disc Jockeys (DJs)
, 49, 90, 101

Discourse-tracing approach
, 1

Disney
, 181–182

Doctor Who (television programme)
, 166

Doom metal
, 21, 24n2, 53, 93, 96, 97, 99

Dracula (Stoker)
, 7, 130, 137–140, 142

Dreamtime (album)
, 63, 64

Drum machines
, 39, 55, 57, 74, 123, 186

Dual P3/800
, 128

Dual PPro/200
, 128

Dusk… And Her Embrace (album)
, 95

Dynasty (television programme)
, 55

Early deeds of goths

Fields of the Nephilim
, 65–66

The Cult
, 62–64

The Mission
, 64–65

The Sisters of Mercy
, 56–61

Early goth aesthetic
, 156–158

Eldritch, Andrew
, 77

and The Sisters of Mercy
, 77–84

Electric (album)
, 63

Electric Wizard
, 97

Electronic Beat Music (EBM)
, 16, 101, 102

Elizium (album)
, 66

Elyria (album)
, 103, 104

Emo
, 112, 160, 163, 164, 175–176

The Empire Strikes Back (film)
, 111

End of Goth
, 173, 178

goth not dead
, 173–178

Enlightenment
, 28, 30, 32, 34

Ersatz
, 21, 34

Ethnography
, 12, 16–17

Eventisation
, 2, 9, 152, 178

Every New Dead Ghost
, 102

Extreme metal
, 2, 93–101, 113, 158–160, 169

Eye of Horus
, 74

F-Club
, 2, 6, 46–50, 71, 79, 158

Facebook
, 23, 124, 131, 134–135, 149, 151

Fallen (album)
, 100

Fascism
, 21, 27, 38

Fascist regime
, 39

Fashion choice, goth as
, 155, 160–165

early goth aesthetic
, 156–158

goth and metal as darkwave transgression
, 158–160

goth sub-culture
, 162

Steampunk
, 165–169

Fields of the Nephilim
, (see also Whitby Goth Weekend (WGW)), 20, 56, 62, 65–66, 70n10, 91, 95, 97, 145

First And Last And Always (album ) (FALAA)
, 72, 85

First Chapter (album)
, 64

Floodland (album)
, 72, 73, 75, 77, 78, 83

Folk Devils and Moral Panics (Cohen)
, 114

Futurama festival
, 46–50

Gang of Four
, 40–41, 47, 49, 79

‘Gang of Four: Dialectics Meet Disco’
, 40

Gender
, 2, 13, 14–16, 32, 33, 34, 117, 159

hegemonic gender order
, 17

politics
, 9, 107

Ghastly
, 108

Globalisation of popular culture

extreme metal, mainstream metal and goth
, 93–101

goth and
, 89

goth bands and spaces in nineties as communicative alternativity
, 101–104

RSV
, 89–93

God’s Own Medicine (album)
, 64–65

Google
, 22, 124

Goth bands
, 5–6, 15, 16, 18, 21, 22, 45, 49, 56, 61, 71, 75–77, 81, 84, 91, 93, 96, 101–104, 131, 135–136, 145, 186

‘Goth Bible’
, 19, 92

Goth Chic: A Connoisseur’s Guide to Dark Culture (Baddeley)
, 20

Goth City Festival
, 187

Goth culture
, 1–2, 4, 7, 13–16, 19, 31, 48, 60, 71, 77, 83, 85, 89, 96, 99, 103, 109, 111–113, 118, 119, 121, 123, 130, 132, 134–136, 144, 156, 160, 163, 173–175, 178, 180, 185, 187, 188

Goth Culture (Brill)
, 2

Goth Culture: Gender, Sexuality and Style (Brill)
, 15

Goth events
, 12, 102, 141, 143, 162

Goth imagination
, 55

Goth in Islamic Countries
, 116–118

Goth Lolita
, 180

Goth music
, 16, 175, 177

Goth Music: From Sound to Subculture (van Elferen and Weinstock)
, 2, 17

Goth rock
, 5, 46, 52, 56, 91

Goth section
, 159

Goth sub-culture
, 11, 14, 24, 89, 107, 162, 175

goth.net
, 127–128

Goth: Identity, Style and Subculture (Hodkinson)
, 10

Goth’s Dark Empire (Siegel)
, 2, 13

‘Goth’s Not Dead’
, 135, 173–178

GothGeeks
, 134

Gothic (album)
, 95

Gothic Beauty
, 164

Gothic fashion
, 163

Gothic Rock (Mercer)
, 19

‘Gothic rock’ points
, 42

Gothic tropes
, 20

Gothicness
, 1

Goths
, 1–2, 4, 12, 34

academic writers on
, 9–19

Baddeley, Gavin
, 20–21

bands and spaces in nineties as communicative alternativity
, 101–104

extreme metal, mainstream metal and
, 93–101

future
, 188–189

genesis and deeds
, 185

for Hodkinson
, 176

Internet and Wikipedia
, 22–24

Mercer, Mick
, 19–20

popular writers on
, 19

Scharf, Natasha
, 21–22

Thompson, Dave
, 21

Graveyard
, 147

Greatest Lovesongs Vol. 666 (album)
, 100

The Guardian
, 92, 146

Habermas, Jürgen (structural theorists)
, 27–31

Habermasian communicative action
, 185

Haram
, 117

Harbingers of Doom and moral panics
, 107

Christian Goth
, 118–120

Goth in Islamic Countries
, 116–118

goth sub-culture
, 107

liminal status of goth in Christian West
, 109–115

Harris, Eric
, 108

Hauntology
, 18, 19

‘Heat death’
, 2, 9, 164, 170

Heavy metal
, 3, 63, 73, 78, 92, 93, 94, 98, 108, 110, 112, 114, 116, 155, 157, 159, 185, 186

Hegemony
, 5, 27, 28, 34, 135, 165, 169

Heteronormative

clothing
, 182

order
, 32–33

performativity
, 146

sexuality
, 159

Hex Files: The Goth Bible (Mercer)
, 19

Hodkinson, Paul
, 10–13

Goths for Hodkinson
, 176

‘Horror punk’
, 45

Hussey, Wayne
, 55

Hyper-commodification
, 3

IBM
, 124

The Independent
, 22, 174

Industrial groove machine
, 78

Instrumentality
, 30, 31

Internet
, 12, 22–24, 75–77, 123, 125

goth joining
, 126–135

Islamic Countries, Goth in
, 116–118

Jazz music
, 29

Joy Division
, 41–44, 158

‘Kato’
, 167

Keenan, John
, 46–50

Killing Joke
, 41–44, 158

Klebold, Dylan
, 108

Lamentations (album)
, 97

The Last Goths of Tashkent (Ibrahimova)
, 116

Late-antique framework
, 3–4

Latourian analysis
, 18, 19

Lefebvre, Henri (post-structural theorists)
, 31–34

Like Gods of the Sun (album)
, 96

Liminal status of goth in Christian West
, 109–115

Linux
, 125

Liquid modernity
, 32

Lost Highway
, 100

Love (album)
, 63

Love Metal (album)
, 100

Lovelace, Chelsea
, 179–180

Lucifer Rising (Baddeley)
, 20

Lucretia
, 85

The Mabinogion
, 104

\Madness
, 32

Mainstream metal
, 93–101

Marilyn Manson band
, 15, 24n4, 89, 92–93, 97–100, 108, 110, 112, 113, 116, 132, 159, 186, 187

Marxist critical theory
, 5, 27

Masque (album)
, 65

Melody Maker
, 43

Mercer, Mick
, 19–20

Metal bands
, 101

Midian (album)
, 95

The Mission
, 5, 55, 56, 64–65, 73, 91, 92

The Mission and Skeletal Family
, 145

Mittelalter
, 102

Mobile phones
, 125

Modern capitalism
, 28

Multiverse
, 165

Music
, 18, 29

magazines
, 5, 56

scene
, 3, 5, 20, 38, 49, 53, 56, 60, 62

style
, 55

Music to Die For (Mercer)
, 20, 37

Mute Records
, 102

Mutter (album)
, 100

My Chemical Romance
, 165

My Dying Bride
, 96

MyHeartland
, 179

Myspace
, 131

National Knowledge Network (NKN)
, 128

Nature of alternativity
, 2–3

Neo-folk
, 102

The Nephilim (album)
, 66

Neuromancer (Gibson)
, 165

Nevermind (album)
, 90

New Musical Express
, 42

New theory of alternativity
, 27, 34–35

Adorno and Habermas
, 27–31

Butler and Lefebvre
, 31–34

Newsgroups
, 124, 127

The Nightmare Before Christmas
, 181

A Nomad of the Time Streams (Moorcock)
, 166

Non-cybergoths
, 101

Norwegian black metal circle
, 113

Nu metal
, 90, 97, 100

The Number of the Beast (album)
, 93

One Second (album)
, 96

Online ethnography
, 7

Online media
, 12

Origin of Goths

Batcave, Specimen, Alien Sex Fiend, Sex Gang Children and Southern Death Cult
, 50–52

Bauhaus
, 44–46

F-Club, John Keenan and Futurama
, 46–50

first goths
, 41

joke
, 37–38

post-punk as the morning after
, 38–41

punk rock as year zero
, 38–41

The Cure, Siouxsie and Banshees, joy division and killing joke
, 41–44

Oxford English Dictionary (OED)
, 112

Paganism
, 1, 19, 20, 109, 110, 118, 174

Performativity
, 16, 32, 33, 180, 187

fake
, 152

heteronormative
, 148

Phonogram
, 64, 65

Pirates of the Caribbean (film)
, 181

Political performance
, 34

Pop music
, 29, 78

Popular culture
, 75–77

Portrait of an American Family (album)
, 98

Post-apocalyptic elements
, 167

Post-punk

bands
, 39

as morning after
, 38–41

music scene
, 38

Post-structural theories
, 31–34

The Principle of Evil Made Flesh (album)
, 95

Propaganda
, 108

‘Punk gothique’
, 49

Punk historiography
, 38

Punk rock as year zero
, 38–41

The Quietus (Ogg)
, 37

Radical feminist theories
, 32

Radical Jacobins of Enlightenment
, 34

Ray of Light (album)
, 169

Razorblade Romance (album)
, 100

Received Standard Version (RSV)
, 89–93

Registered trademarks
, 141

Resistance
, 185–188

Riot Grrl movement
, 159

Ritual
, 62

Roland TR-808
, 39

Romanticism
, 20

Sadomasochism (S/M)
, 13

Sanctuary (album)
, 90

‘Satanic rock’ band
, 110

Satanism
, 1, 20, 93–95, 108, 109–112, 113

Saxophone
, 65, 66

Scharf, Natasha
, 21–22

Screaming for Vengeance (album)
, 93

Screw Shareholder Value (SSV)
, 74

‘Second wave’ of black metal
, 94

Sehnsucht (album)
, 100

Sex Gang Children
, 50–52

Sexual politics
, 9

Siegel, Carol
, 13–15

Siouxsie and the Banshees
, 41–44, 158

The Sisters of Mercy (TSOM)(see also Whitby Goth Weekend (WGW))
, 4–6, 46–47, 49, 56–61, 71–75, 86, 90, 91

Eldritch, Andrew
, 77–84

fans on new sisters’ sound and gothness of
, 85–86

internet and popular culture
, 75–77

SistersWiki site
, 77

Skinhead-punks
, 46

Social media sites
, 130–131

Some Wear Leather, Some Wear Lace (Harriman & Bontje)
, 40

Sonic Temple (album)
, 63

Sounds
, 45

South Park (television programme)
, 177

Southern Death Cult
, 37, 39, 50–52, 57, 58, 60, 62

Specimen band
, 50–52

‘Spiritwalker’
, 62, 63

The Production of Space (Lefebvre)
, 33

Star Trek (film)
, 124, 179

Steampunk
, 149, 165–169

Stench of Death
, 155

The Stone Roses
, 92

The Stooges
, 38, 57, 79

“Straight Music”
, 47

Structural Marxists
, 31

Structural theories
, 27–31

Sub-cultural capital
, 11

Sub-culture
, (see Goth sub-culture)

Sun SPARC LX
, 128

Sykes Cottages
, 137

Taxidermy
, 182

Teddy boys
, 173, 188

Terrorizer
, 91

‘This Corrosion’ (song)
, 69, 71–73

Thompson, Dave
, 21

Top of the Pops (television show)
, 41

Traditional media
, 12

Transgression
, 32, 33

The Tube
, 62

Turn Loose the Swans (album)
, 96

Twenty-First Century Goth (Mercer)
, 20

Twitter
, 131

Type O Negative goth nightclubs
, 159

UK-based goth
, 177

Underneath the Rock (UTR)
, 80

United Kingdom (UK)
, 76

US GOTH. NET
, 133

Usenet
, 124

Vampire goths
, 129

van Elferen, Isabella
, 17–19

Venom
, 94, 108

Victorian Goths
, 129, 166

Virtual identity and culture online, goth as
, 123

goth joining Internet
, 126–135

Vision Thing (album)
, 73, 74, 75, 78, 99

Visual kei
, 180

The Warlord of the Air (Moorcock)
, 166

WEA
, 64, 72, 74

Wealth of West
, 28

‘Web-savvy’
, 12

Weinstock, Jeffrey Andrew
, 17–19

Welcome to Hell (song)
, 108, 110

Wendy House
, 178

Western popular culture
, 55

Whig interpretation of goth history
, 174

Whitby Goth Weekend (WGW)
, (see also Fields of the Nephilim), 1, 4, 7, 9, 12, 137, 138, 141, 144, 150–151, 173

goth bands
, 145

performing and framing ‘alternative’
, 146–151

registered trademarks
, 141

Whitby Museum
, 140

Wikipedia
, 142, 143

Whitby Parish Office
, 147

The Wicker Man (film)
, 104

Wicks, Paul
, 150, 151

Wikipedia
, 19, 22–24, 76

Williamsian subculture
, 175

Women of Grace
, 107, 109

World Wide Web
, 124

The World’s End (film)
, 71

Worldwide Gothic: A Chronicle of a Tribe (Scharf)
, 21

The X-Files
, 19

The Xpelaires
, (see also The Sisters of Mercy (TSOM)), 49

The Young Ones (television show)
, 68