Goth as a counter culture evolved out of a school that came out of post World War II Germany, Byronic England, and the American Beat. It was an ideology that synthesized historical events such as the Renaissance with all its romanticism and philosophies , then intertwined it to fit their own feelings of displacement and discontent that they felt towards the world. Soon after the first label was attached Goth as a counter culture grew and its roots became strongly fixed. Out of the New Romantics two factions of Goth came about, Appolonian which focuses on the artistic and philosophical modes of self expression, and the Dionysian faction which passionately embraced hedonistic and sometimes self destructive tendencies that are usually associated with Goth. The movement wained for a while, but then again there was a resurgence of the movement during the early 1980's when the youth again grew discontent with the ruling class.
Punk music is an increasingly violent reproach against the powers that be.
The interest of where Goth began goes right along with why Goth began. Goth began out of the dissatisfied youth hailing from the middle class. At the times in which Goth has began and gained new popularity society was seeing periods of increasing prosperity. Goth was a way to create their own culture which stood against the materialism, elitism, and false sense of moral superiority of their parents. Which is why there have been periods in which the Goth movement has wained and again resurged.