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Goth
Undead Subculture
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Edited by:
Michael Bibby
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With contributions by:
Joshua Gunn
Language:
English
Published/Copyright:
2007
About this book
An ethnography of a postpunk subculture.
Author / Editor information
Lauren M. E. Goodlad is Associate Professor of English and a member of the Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. She is the author of Victorian Literature and the Victorian State: Character and Governance in a Liberal Society.
Michael Bibby is Professor of English at Shippensburg University. He is the author of Hearts and Minds: Bodies, Poetry, and Resistance in the Vietnam Era and the editor of The Vietnam War and Postmodernity.
Reviews
“Goth: Undead Subculture is a very engaging read—a nice mélange of ethnographic anecdote, cultural criticism, and historical analysis—in which a multidisciplinary crew of contributors analyzes an important and complex subculture through its fashions, music, dancing, literature, sexual practices, aesthetic ideals, theatrical displays, historical precedents, and ideologies.”—Robert Walser, author of Running with the Devil: Power, Gender, and Madness in Heavy Metal Music
“Goth creates its distinctive way of life by appropriating materials from a vast array of cultural phenomena—post-punk music, gothic literary tradition, pre-Christian mythology, sexual nonconformity, aesthetic avant-gardes—all of which it adopts primarily as style. Goth style is thus both dizzyingly heterogeneous and instantly recognizable. It is hard to imagine a single book that could do this subculture justice; yet by assembling contributors from a range of disciplines and judiciously including many voices of subcultural participants themselves, Goth: Undead Subculture manages to depict, while also reflecting critically on, this subculture’s enduring appeal. This collection will be the definitive work on its topic.”—Tim Dean, author of Beyond Sexuality
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Frontmatter
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CONTENTS
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
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Introduction
1 - Part I Genders
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Dark Admissions
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Queens of the Damned
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Peri Gothous
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Men in Black
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This Modern Goth (Explains Herself)
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Playing Dress Up
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Undead Fashion
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‘‘Goth Damage’’ and Melancholia
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‘‘To commit suicide in Buffalo is redundant’’
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‘‘Ah am witness to its authenticity’’
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The (Un)Australian Goth
217 - Part IV Artifacts
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Atrocity Exhibitions
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Material Distinctions
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Geek/Goth
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The Authentic Dracula
293 - Part V Communities
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‘‘When you kiss me, I want to die’’
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The Cure, the Community, the Contempt!
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‘‘We are all individuals, but we’ve all got the same boots on!’’
322 - Part VI Practices
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That Obscure Object of Desire Revisited
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God’s Own Medicine
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Gothic Fetishism
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The Aesthetic Apostasy
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References
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Contributors
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Index
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Publishing information
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eBook published on:
April 11, 2007
eBook ISBN:
9780822389705
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
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456
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67 illustrations
