The art of darkness : the history of goth /

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Author / Creator:	Robb, John, 1961- author.
Imprint:	[Great Britain] : Louder Than War Books, 2023. ©2023
Description:	viii, 539 pages ; 23 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Gothic rock music. Gothic rock music -- History. Goth culture (Subculture) Goth culture (Subculture) -- History. Goth culture (Subculture) Gothic rock music.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13152993

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ISBN:	9781526173201 1526173204 9781526173225 9781526173218
Notes:	Includes index.
Summary:	"This is the first comprehensive history of goth music and culture. Across more than 500 pages, John Robb explores the origins and legacy of this enduring scene, which has its roots in the post-punk era. Drawing on his own experience as a musician and journalist, Robb covers the style, the music and the clubs that spawned the culture, alongside political and social conditions. He also reaches back further to key historic events and movements that frame the ideas of goth, from the fall of Rome to Lord Byron and the romantic poets, European folk tales, Gothic art and the occult. Finally, he considers the current mainstream goth of Instagram influencers, film, literature and music. The Art of Darkness features interviews with Siouxsie and the Banshees, The Cure, The Damned, Nick Cave, Southern Death Cult, Einstürzende Neubauten, Bauhaus, Killing Joke, Throbbing Gristle, Danielle Dax, Lydia Lunch and many more. It offers a first-hand account of being there at the gigs and clubs that made the scene happen." --
Other form:	ebook version : 9781526173225

Table of Contents:

Introduction: The Doors are Open
1. Floorshow a Night Out
2. The Fall of Rome
3. Deep in the Forest Europe's Gothic History
4. 'mad, Bad and Dangerous to Know' THE Romantics & The Gothic Imagination
5. Euro Visions
6. The Devil has the Best Tunes
7. Paint it Black the Dark Heart of the Psychedelic Sixties
8. All the Children are Insane, or People are Strange The (Un)Holy Trinity. The Doors/Velvets/Stooges
9. Wham Bam Thank YOu Glam the Dark Side of Glam Rock
10. Proto Rost-Punk
11. The Punk Wars
12. 'What was Once Unhealthily Fresh is Now a Clean Old Hat' Post-Punk to a Very Public Image
13. Spellbound Siouxsie & The Banshees
14. Feel the Pain the Damned
15. Ridicule is Nothing to be Scared of Adam Ant
16. New Dawn Fades Manchester & Joy Division
17. 'The Wreckers of Western Civilisation…' Industrial Music
18. 'I Must Fight this Sickness… Find a Cure' The Cure
19. The Naughty North and the Sexy South
20. All We Ever Wanted was Everything Bauhaus
21. Lord of Chaos a Dark & Beautiful Playground - Killing Joke
22. Release the Bats! Nick Cave
23. 'I Am Not Avant-Garde I Am a Deserter' Blixa Bargeld, Einstürzende Neubauten & The Reinvention of Berlin
24. Voodoo Idols the Ballad of Lux & IVY
25. First, Last and Always How Post-Punk Leeds Created Goth & The Sisters of Mercy
26. Vagabonds Bradford New Model Army & Joolz
27. Flowers in the Forest Southern Death Cult
28. Wanted Dead or Alive How Liverpool Opened the Doors to a New (North) West Coast Sound
29. Do You Believe in the Westworld? Theatre of Hate
30. A New form of Beauty: Virgin Prunes, Dublin How Lypton Village Changed a Nation
31. 'Good Poetry Can Still Resonate Louder Than a Thousand Guns' Rammstein for Grown-Ups - Laibach
32. At the Gates of Silent Memory Fields of the Nephilim
33. Darklands How the Dark Energy Infected Indie
34. 'We Sing to the Gods to be Free' American Gothic & The Dark Art of the American Dream
35. Trans Europe Express
36. In the Flat Field, Suburbs & Satellite Towns The Second Coming of Goth
37. Apocalypse Now! Goth's End Days
Index

The art of darkness : the history of goth /

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