Goth's Dark Empire
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: August 9, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 211
ISBN-13: 9780253345936
Subjects: Popular culture; Sociology, Social Studies; Social Science; Archaeology / Anthropology; Sociology; USA; Anthropology - Cultural; Popular Culture - General; Goth culture (Subculture)
First sentence: In an epilogue to his history of Gothic rock and roll music and cultures, The Dark Reign of Gothic Rock, Dave Thompson speculates that because the 1990s second wave of Goth began in America, it has been characterized by a harsh, infuriated seriousness that the original movement lacked (242).