Who, what, when & why…is Goth
I mainly only see this amongst younger generations, but why do some people try to alienate Gothic culture from Goth.
a tendency to draw a very hard line between Gothic & Goth. (I even see ppl suggesting you can not like Gothic culture & be Goth—which is kind of confusing because wouldn’t you just be post-punk w/o the Gothic lyricism/writing style)
I understand that goth, as a modern subculture, emerged primarily from the late-1970s/early-1980s post-punk music scene & that being interested in Gothic literature, architecture, & etc. alone doesn’t necessarily make someone goth.
Gothic literature, Romanticism, horror, religious imagery, morbidity, and other elements of the older Gothic tradition seem to have influenced at least parts of goth music, fashion, and visual culture. At the same time, goth clearly inherited its musical foundation and much of its subcultural structure from post-punk.
I’ve always seen Goth as
Gothic culture & Punk culture had a child.