Gothic

Are Gothic a Gang?

you've seen them-before-in school ,mall,in the neighborhood,with starting white make up pitch black or purple hair,black lipstick,fingernails,eye make up .the youth in this area who consider themselves'GOTHS' certainly stand out in the around.

the Gothic looks is somewhere between a punk and vampire ,many a favour Victorian -style clothes,like that vampire lest ant,the hair is dyed ultra black,other simply may dress all in the black,particularly with boots and a lots of silver fewer .partially,at least the attire come from an avid fascination with a both death and undead(as vampire)

Gothic separate themselves into three group [this is incorrect ,there is not a separation in group although there may be general tendency for one of three she describes by individual people .goths are different wide variety people with different indecent,background].Some may be involved in witchery,satanism or pagan believes and are fascinated with death(witchcraft and paganism have nothing do with a fascination with death).Another group may likes to pretend as role plays as death the vampires,As with any youth trend,there are different level of involvement depending of the individual,while Gothic are pagan or Wicca(witchcraft religion).One young women interviewed is LDS religion is not necessary a factor in goths involvement.

What's with all the black(favourite Gothic response)??????

-it matches my soul

-my mom make me a dress this way

-i wear black because I'm hiding from them

-I matches my hair

-I died

-because everyday is Halloween

-I robbed a mime and black clothes are all he had

The Gothic test(to be humorous, an example of the many way Gothic poke fun of themselves it's meant to be taken seriously)

-have you ever drunk blood?

-have you worn plastic vampire teeth other than at Halloween

-are you a vampire?

-could you under pin a building with your foundation

-have you been to goth club?

-do you own a tarot deck?

They seems to be some association between the Gothic movement and drug. In Murray, most of the school suspension which occurred 1996 as a recruit of drug use for dealing by the local Gothic.

IDEOLOGY

Defining an explicit ideology for Gothic subculture is difficult for several reasons. First the overwhelming importance of mood and aesthetic for those involved. This is, inspired by romanticism and neoromantism. The allure for goth of dark, mysterious, and morbid imagery and mood lies in the same tradition of Romanticism's Gothic novel. During the late 18th and 19th century, feeling of horror, supernatural dread were widespread motifs i popular literature; The process continues in modern horror film. Balancing this emphasis on mood and aesthetics, another central element of the Gothic is a deliberate sense of camp theatricality and self-dramatization; present both in Gothic literature as well as in Gothic subculture itself.

while involvement with the subculture can be subculture can be fulfilling, it also can be risky, especially for the young, because of the negative attention it can attract due to public misconceptions of goth subculture. The value that young people find in the movement is evidenced by its continuing existence after other subculture of the eighties(such as the New Romantics) have died out.