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Goth

Undead Subculture
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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

    ix
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    Introduction

    1
    Lauren M. E. Goodlad and Michael Bibby
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  • Part I Genders
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    Dark Admissions

    41
    Joshua Gunn
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    Queens of the Damned

    65
    Kristen Schilt
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    Peri Gothous

    79
    Trevor M. Holmes
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    Men in Black

    89
    Lauren M. E. Goodlad
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  • Part II Performances
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    This Modern Goth (Explains Herself)

    121
    Rebecca Schraffenberger
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    Playing Dress Up

    129
    David Shumway and Heather Arnet
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    Undead Fashion

    143
    Catherine Spooner
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    ‘‘Goth Damage’’ and Melancholia

    155
    Michael du Plessis
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  • Part III Localities
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    ‘‘To commit suicide in Buffalo is redundant’’

    171
    Mark Nowak
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    ‘‘Ah am witness to its authenticity’’

    190
    Jason K. Friedman
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    The (Un)Australian Goth

    217
    Ken Gelder
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  • Part IV Artifacts
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    Atrocity Exhibitions

    233
    Michael Bibby
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    Material Distinctions

    257
    Jessica Burstein
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    Geek/Goth

    277
    Robert Markley
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    The Authentic Dracula

    293
    Nancy Gagnier
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  • Part V Communities
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    ‘‘When you kiss me, I want to die’’

    307
    Lauren Stasiak
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    The Cure, the Community, the Contempt!

    316
    Angel M. Butts
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    ‘‘We are all individuals, but we’ve all got the same boots on!’’

    322
    Paul Hodkinson
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  • Part VI Practices
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    That Obscure Object of Desire Revisited

    335
    Carol Siegel
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    God’s Own Medicine

    357
    Anna Powell
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    Gothic Fetishism

    375
    Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock
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    The Aesthetic Apostasy

    398
    David Lenson
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    References

    405
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    Contributors

    425
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    Index

    429
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Publishing information
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eBook ISBN:
9780822389705
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456
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67 illustrations
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