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The Commodification of Whitby Goth Weekend and the Loss of a Subculture
View metadata, citation and similarbrought COREpapers to youat core.ac.ukby provided by Leeds Beckett Repository The Strange and Spooky Battle over Bats and Black Dresses: The Commodification of Whitby Goth Weekend and the Loss of a Subculture Professor Karl Spracklen (Leeds Metropolitan University, UK) and Beverley Spracklen (Independent Scholar) Lead Author Contact Details: Professor Karl Spracklen Carnegie Faculty Leeds Metropolitan University Cavendish Hall Headingley Campus Leeds LS6 3QU 44 (0)113 812 3608 [email protected] Abstract From counter culture to subculture to the ubiquity of every black-clad wannabe vampire hanging around the centre of Western cities, Goth has transcended a musical style to become a part of everyday leisure and popular culture. The music’s cultural terrain has been extensively mapped in the first decade of this century. In this paper we examine the phenomenon of the Whitby Goth Weekend, a modern Goth music festival, which has contributed to (and has been altered by) the heritage tourism marketing of Whitby as the holiday resort of Dracula (the place where Bram Stoker imagined the Vampire Count arriving one dark and stormy night). We examine marketing literature and websites that sell Whitby as a spooky town, and suggest that this strategy has driven the success of the Goth festival. We explore the development of the festival and the politics of its ownership, and its increasing visibility as a mainstream tourist destination for those who want to dress up for the weekend. By interviewing Goths from the north of England, we suggest that the mainstreaming of the festival has led to it becoming less attractive to those more established, older Goths who see the subculture’s authenticity as being rooted in the post-punk era, and who believe Goth subculture should be something one lives full-time. -
[email protected] Website: Nightshift.Oxfordmusic.Net Free Every Month
email: [email protected] website: nightshift.oxfordmusic.net Free every month. NIGHTSHIFT Issue 122 September Oxford’s Music Magazine 2005 SupergrassSupergrassSupergrass on a road less travelled plus 4-Page Truck Festival Review - inside NIGHTSHIFT: PO Box 312, Kidlington, OX5 1ZU. Phone: 01865 372255 NEWNEWSS Nightshift: PO Box 312, Kidlington, OX5 1ZU Phone: 01865 372255 email: [email protected] THE YOUNG KNIVES won You Now’, ‘Water and Wine’ and themselves a coveted slot at V ‘Gravity Flow’. In addition, the CD Festival last month after being comes with a bonus DVD which picked by Channel 4 and Virgin features a documentary following Mobile from over 1,000 new bands Mark over the past two years as he to open the festival on the Channel recorded the album, plus alternative 4 stage, alongside The Chemical versions of some tracks. Brothers, Doves, Kaiser Chiefs and The Magic Numbers. Their set was THE DOWNLOAD appears to have then broadcast by Channel 4. been given an indefinite extended Meanwhile, the band are currently in run by the BBC. The local music the studio with producer Andy Gill, show, which is broadcast on BBC recording their new single, ‘The Radio Oxford 95.2fm every Saturday THE MAGIC NUMBERS return to Oxford in November, leading an Decision’, due for release on from 6-7pm, has had a rolling impressive list of big name acts coming to town in the next few months. Transgressive in November. The monthly extension running through After their triumphant Truck Festival headline set last month, The Magic th Knives have also signed a publishing the summer, and with the positive Numbers (pictured) play at Brookes University on Tuesday 11 October. -
The Music (And More) 2019 Quarter 3 Report
The Music (and More) 2019 Quarter 3 Report Report covers the time period of July 1st to Kieran Robbins & Chief - "Sway" [glam rock] September 30th, 2019. I inadvertently missed Troy a few before that time period, which were brought to my attention by fans, bands & Moriah Formica - "I Don't Care What You others. The missing are listed at the end, along with an Think" (single) [hard rock] Albany End Note… Nine Votes Short - "NVS: 09/03/2019" [punk rock] RECORDINGS: Albany Hard Rock / Metal / Punk Psychomanteum - "Mortal Extremis" (single track) Attica - "Resurected" (EP) [hardcore metal] Albany [thrash prog metal industrial] Albany Between Now and Forever - "Happy" (single - Silversyde - "In The Dark" [christian gospel hard rock] Mudvayne cover) [melodic metal rock] Albany Troy/Toledo OH Black Electric - "Black Electric" [heavy stoner blues rock] Scotchka - "Back on the Liquor" | "Save" (single tracks) Voorheesville [emo pop punk] Albany Blood Blood Blood - "Stranglers” (single) [darkwave Somewhere To Call Home - "Somewhere To Call Home" horror synthpunk] Troy [nu-metalcore] Albany Broken Field Runner – "Lay My Head Down" [emo pop Untaymed - "Lady" (single track) [british hard rock] punk] Albany / LA Colonie Brookline - "Live From the Bunker - Acoustic" (EP) We’re History - "We’re History" | "Pop Tarts" - [acoustic pop-punk alt rock] Greenwich "Avalanche" (singles) [punk rock pop] Saratoga Springs Candy Ambulance - "Traumantic" [alternative grunge Wet Specimens - "Haunted Flesh" (EP) [hardcore punk] rock] Saratoga Springs Albany Craig Relyea - "Between the Rain" (single track) Rock / Pop [modern post-rock] Schenectady Achille - "Superman (A Song for Mora)" (single) [alternative pop rock] Albany Dead-Lift - "Take It or Leave It" (single) [metal hard rock fusion] Schenectady Caramel Snow - "Wheels Are Meant To Roll Away" (single track) [shoegaze dreampop] Delmar Deep Slut - "u up?" (3-song) [punk slutcore rap] Albany Cassandra Kubinski - "DREAMS (feat. -
New Music As Subculture Que Devient L’Avant-Garde ? La Nouvelle Musique Comme Sous-Culture Martin Iddon
Document generated on 09/29/2021 10:50 a.m. Circuit Musiques contemporaines What Becomes of the Avant-Guarded? New Music as Subculture Que devient l’avant-garde ? La nouvelle musique comme sous-culture Martin Iddon Pactes faustiens : l’hybridation des genres musicaux après Romitelli Article abstract Volume 24, Number 3, 2014 In a short ‘vox pop,’ written for Circuit in 2010, on the subject of the ‘future’ of new music, I proposed that new music — or the version of it tightly URI: https://id.erudit.org/iderudit/1027610ar intertwined with what was once thought of as the international avant-garde, at DOI: https://doi.org/10.7202/1027610ar any rate — might today be better thought of as a sort of subculture, akin to the spectacular subcultures of goth and punk, but radically different in that they See table of contents developed from the ‘grassroots,’ as it were, while new music comes from a position of extreme cultural privilege, which is to say it has access, even now, to modes of funding and infrastructure subcultures ‘proper’ never have. This essay develops this line of enquiry, outlining theories of subculture and Publisher(s) post-subculture — drawing on ‘classic’ and more recent research, from Les Presses de l’Université de Montréal Hebdige and Cohen to Hodkinson, Maffesoli, and Thornton — before presenting the, here more detailed, case that new music represents a sort of subculture, before making some tentative proposals regarding what sort of ISSN subculture it is and what this might mean for contemporary understandings of 1183-1693 (print) new music and what it is for. -
Psychobilly Psychosis and the Garage Disease in Athens
IAFOR Journal of Cultural Studies Volume 5 – Issue 1 – Spring 2020 Psychobilly Psychosis and the Garage Disease in Athens Michael Tsangaris, University of Piraeus, Greece Konstantina Agrafioti, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece Abstract The complexity and the bizarre nature of Psychobilly as a music genre and as a music collectivity make it very convenient for reconsidering several views in relation to subcultures, neo-tribes and scenes. More specifically, the case of Greek Psychobilly can categorically present how subcultural trends can be disseminated across gender, social classes and national borders. This study aims to trace historically the scene of Psychobilly in Athens based on typical ethnographic research and analytic autoethnography. The research question is: Which are the necessary elements that can determine the existence of a local music scene? Supported by semi-structured interviews, the study examines how individuals related to the Psychobilly subculture comprehend what constitutes the Greek Psychobilly scene. Although it can be questionable whether there ever was a Psychobilly scene in Athens, there were always small circles in existence into which people drifted and stayed for quite a while, constituting the pure core of the Greek Psychobilly subculture. Keywords: psychobilly, music genres, Athens, Post-subcultural Theory 31 IAFOR Journal of Cultural Studies Volume 5 – Issue 1 – Spring 2020 Introduction According to the American Countercultures Encyclopaedia, Psychobilly is a subculture that emerged in the 1980s from the unlikely combination of rockabilly and punk rock. The provocative and sometimes outrageous style associated with psychobillies (also known as “psychos”) mixes the blue-collar rawness and rebellion of 1950s rockabilly with the confrontational do-it-yourself style of 1970s punk rock, a syncretism infused with themes from monster and horror films, campy sci-fi movies, and even professional wrestling” (Wojcik, 2013, p. -
23. Wave-Gotik-Treffen
23. Wave-Gotik-Treffen - Termin: 6. - 9. Juni 2014 - Ort: Leipzig (an rund 40 Veranstaltungsorten über die ganz Stadt verteilt), Zeltplatz und Hauptveranstaltungsort am Stadtrand auf dem agra-Messegelände Markkleeberg - Internetseiten: www.wave-gotik-treffen.de www.facebook.com/WaveGotikTreffen - Musikrichtungen: alle Arten von dunkler Musik: Gothic; EBM; Industrial; Dark Ambient; Apocalyptic Folk; Post Punk, Synthpop etc. - Eintrittskarten: 4-Tageskarte für alle Veranstaltungen im Rahmen des 23. Wave-Gotik-Treffens Pfingsten 2014 zu 99,- € im Vorverkauf (inkl. VVK-Gebühr). Die Veranstaltungskarte beinhaltet die Fahrtberechtigung für Nahverkehrsmittel (Straßenbahn, Busse, S-Bahn des MDV Zone 110) vom 6.Juni, 08:00 Uhr - 10.Juni, 12:00 Uhr (ohne Sonderlinien). - Zelten: mit Obsorgekarte zu 25,- € (inkl. VVK-Gebühr) mit folgendem Leistungspaket: Zeltplatznutzung auf dem Treffenzeltplatz „Pfingstbote“ – das ausführliche Treffen-Programmbuch Ohne Obsorge-Karte sind das Betreten und die Nutzung des Treffenzeltplatzes nicht möglich. Die Obsorge-Karte gilt nur in Verbindung mit einer Treffen-Veranstaltungskarte. - Parken: Für das Parken auf dem Treffengelände ist eine Parkvignette zu 15,- € (inkl. VVK-Gebühr) für den gesamten Treffen- Zeitraum erforderlich. Ohne Parkvignette ist das Parken auf dem Treffengelände (agra-Treffenpark) nicht möglich. Karten sind bestellbar über www.wave-gotik-treffen.de - Erwartete Besucherzahl: ca. 20000 - Kontakt: Fernruf: 0341-2120862 / E-Post: [email protected] - Photos: www.wave-gotik-treffen.de/photogallery.php Das Wave-Gotik-Treffen - schwarz-romantische Festspiele jedes Jahr zu Pfingsten in Leipzig 2014 findet das WGT zum 23.Mal statt. Vom 6. bis 9. Juni feiern wieder mehr als 20000 Gothics aus aller Welt DIE internationale Familienzusammenkunft der Gothic-Szene. Über die ganze Stadt verteilt werden etwa 200 Bands und Künstler auftreten und dabei erneut alle Spielarten dunkler Musik aufführen: Von Future-Pop bis Goth-Metal, von EBM bis Apocalyptic Folk, von mittelalterlichen Klängen bis zu elegischem Post Punk. -
Lavoce's Directory
July 31, 2015 To Whom It May Concern: Promote Your Business with Lavoce’s Directory! Welcome to the preliminary edition of Lavoce’s Directory! Lavoce: We Are People Too, Inc. (Lavoce) is proud to present the first international directory for Goths, tattoo artists, sKateboarders, and others who live alternative lifestyles, or anyone whose clothing is outside the norm. This directory has more categories than any other online Goth directory. This is the most comprehensive directory available because being Goth affects all aspects of life. Our commitment is driven by the need to help Goths, and others who looK outside the norm, to feel safe to be themselves in their day-to-day jobs. This directory is the first and only directory of employers who hire people from alternative lifestyles. It has the potential to connect those who feel alone in this world to established organizations and areas of the world where Goths feel more accepted. It will build sustaining partnerships with existing organizations and revitalize the community by helping new organizations grow. Lavoce will also support Goth jobseeKers to promote job sKills training and worKplace etiquette. If you are seeing this, then you are an employer that seems open to hiring people from alternative lifestyles. I am writing to encourage your company to come forward as an openminded employer. The entries in this directory are gray because they have only been proposed but have not yet been confirmed or paid. I have included your company’s link in the first edition of this directory, but will need further information from you going forward. -
Punk's Not Dead in East La: Exploring the East Los
Revista de Estudios Globales y Arte Contemporáneo, Vol. 3, Núm. 1, 2015, 198-219 Alicia Vanessa Nuñez Rafaela Fiore Urízar PUNK’S NOT DEAD IN EAST LA: EXPLORING THE EAST LOS SERIES AND IT’S USE OF LOCALITY AND CULTURAL HYBRIDITY FOR EASTSIDE CATHARSIS Introduction Depictions of Los Angeles emphasize an obsession with beauty, wealth, and fame; a media fueled superficiality that gives a myopic view of the city itself. For its inhabitants, the realities of this City of Lights seem unrecognizable from the fairytales its own neighborhood of Hollywood tries to disperse to the world. Sure, the rich and famous reside amongst luxury and comfort, but take a few steps outside of this glimmering bubble, and the disparities of millions of Angelinos become apparent. Such marginalization is experienced throughout the county, but the current Punk scene of East Los Angeles may be one of the biggest indicators of the existence of such urban problems. Some may ask, “hasn’t Punk been dead since the early 80’s?” Much like its unending fervor against conformity and uniformity, Punk continues to live; offering teens of the Eastside an escape against the Revista de Estudios Globales y Arte Contemporáneo ISSN: 2013-8652 online http://revistes.ub.edu/index.php/REGAC/index http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/ Alicia Vanessa Nuñez & Dr. Rafaela Fiore Urízar, “Punk’s Not Dead in East LA: Exploring the East Los Series and It’s Use of Locality and Cultural Hybridity for Eastside Catharsis” harsh realities that comes with living in the city of luminous yet scathing lights. -
MTO 20.2: Heetderks, Review of S. Alexander
Volume 20, Number 2, March 2014 Copyright © 2014 Society for Music Theory Review of S. Alexander Reed, Assimilate: A Critical History of Industrial Music (Oxford, 2013) David Heetderks NOTE: The examples for the (text-only) PDF version of this item are available online at: http://www.mtosmt.org/issues/mto.14.20.2/mto.14.20.2.heetderks.php KEYWORDS: industrial, post punk, electronic music, EBM, electronic body music, futurepop, cut-up, Throbbing Gristle, Cabaret Voltaire, Nitzer Ebb, Front 242, Skinny Puppy, Laibach, Burroughs Received March 2014 [1] The genre of industrial music is long-lived and, as is evident from comparing Audio Clip 1 and Audio Clip 2, encompasses a broad range of styles. Audio Clip 1, from “Hamburger Lady” (1978) by Throbbing Gristle, is a collage of noisy sounds and a spoken text that has been electronically modified to near indistinguishability. The only suggestion of a beat is provided by a distant thump, perhaps suggesting a heartbeat. The text assaults common notions of good taste: it describes the medical care of a severely burned woman, forcing listeners to confront a figure that civilized society would keep hidden. Audio Clip 2, from “Headhunter” (1988) by Front 242, features a driving dance beat that, in contradistinction to “Hamburger Lady,” is crisp and motoric. The lead singer shouts out the story of a bounty hunter, performing an aggressive form of masculinity. The sounds of industrial music have appeared even in recent years: the harsh and abrasive synthesizer beats in Kanye West’s 2013 album Yeezus have galvanized critics, leading some to describe a masochistic form of listening that is reminiscent of responses to industrial music. -
New Hazlett Theater Presents Slim Cessna's Auto Club
New Hazlett Theater presents Slim Cessna’s Auto Club Pittsburgh, PA – August 6, 2012—New Hazlett Theater brings a different kind of country band to Pittsburgh when it presents alternative country and gothabilly rock band Slim Cessna’s Auto Club in concert on Wednesday, August 29 at 8 p.m. Appropriate for all ages, advance tickets are $12 and $18 at the door. Tickets can be purchased online through ShowClix. Slim Cessna's Auto Club is an American rock band originally formed in Denver, Colo. in 1992. Their genre-bending music includes elements of country blues, Southern gospel, gothabilly and other forms loosely grouped as Americana or alternative country. Gothabilly is one of several music subgenres of rockabilly. The name combines gothic and rockabilly. The Auto Club is sometimes labeled "country gothic" due to the juxtaposition of apocalyptic religious imagery with stories of alcohol, violence and relationships gone awry. “This is the country band that plays the bar at the end of the world,” writes Jello Biafra, a musician and founder of underground record label Alternative Tentacles. The band is made up of Slim Cessna, formerly a member of The Denver Gentlemen, Jay Munly (often credited as "Munly Munly"), Lord Dwight Pentacost, Daniel Grandbois (Danny Pants), Robert Ferbrache and Todd Moore. This show is particularly special with the addition of Baltimore's The Sterling Sisters, formed by Slim Cessna’s son George. The group’s music features ornate, immaculate gothic folk lit up by vocal duels between George Cessna’s rasp and Scout Paré-Phillips' operatic voice, moving along in a doomsday march crossed with western swing. -
Goth Beauty, Style and Sexuality: Neo-Traditional Femininity in Twenty-First Century Subcultural Magazines
Citation: Nally, Claire (2018) Goth Beauty, Style and Sexuality: Neo-Traditional Femininity in Twenty-First Century Subcultural Magazines. Gothic Studies, 20 (1-2). pp. 1-28. ISSN 1362- 7937 Published by: Manchester University Press URL: https://doi.org/10.7227/GS.0024 <https://doi.org/10.7227/GS.0024> This version was downloaded from Northumbria Research Link: http://nrl.northumbria.ac.uk/28540/ Northumbria University has developed Northumbria Research Link (NRL) to enable users to access the University’s research output. Copyright © and moral rights for items on NRL are retained by the individual author(s) and/or other copyright owners. Single copies of full items can be reproduced, displayed or performed, and given to third parties in any format or medium for personal research or study, educational, or not-for-profit purposes without prior permission or charge, provided the authors, title and full bibliographic details are given, as well as a hyperlink and/or URL to the original metadata page. The content must not be changed in any way. Full items must not be sold commercially in any format or medium without formal permission of the copyright holder. The full policy is available online: http://nrl.northumbria.ac.uk/policies.html This document may differ from the final, published version of the research and has been made available online in accordance with publisher policies. To read and/or cite from the published version of the research, please visit the publisher’s website (a subscription may be required.) Gothic Studies For Review -
Pretty Gothic
Pretty Gothic A P e r i o d i c a l f o r P r e t t y P e o p l e White on White: HoHoHow to Achieveveve And Maintain PePePerfect Pallor plusplusplus Beauty Secrets of RASPUTINA How to: :: • Cure a Hangover • Be a Mad NonConformist #1 $2 Contributor’s PAGE Amanda Manol, Editor Sign: Aries Indispensible Beauty product: Sleep, Benefit Benetint, False Eyelashes Favorite Food: Fine Cheese, Potato Products Favorite Scent: Funeral Home Favorite Hobby: Guerilla Makeovers Kelly Ashkettle, Layout Sign: Libra Indispensible Beauty product: Ivory Powder, Black Hair Dye Favorite Food: Unagi (Eel sushi) Favorite Scent: Raspberry Lotion Favorite Hobby: DJing Margo, Photographer Sign: Aquarius Indispensible Beauty Product: Laura Mercier Concealer Favorite Food: Sashimi Favorite Scent: Lolita Lempika Favorite Hobby: Photography SALEM, Horoscopes Sign: Capricorn Indispensible Beauty Product: blood Favorite Food: Blood Favorite Scent: Blood Favorite Hobby: Blood Erik Gorr, comic Sign: Aquarius Indispensible Beauty Product: Hair Pomade, Bay Rum Cologne Favorite food: Some kind of Vegetable Soup Favorite Scent: Plastic Favorite Hobby: Making Monsters, Guitar Not Pictured: Sara Cagno, copy editing. Elise Soroka, grapHic Design cover: Model: Serafemme. Makeup: Amanda. Photography, Margo. Graphic Design: Elise. Amanda’s Thanks: Super special thanks to all my contributors for their generosity and patience, and to Ben, Klaw, both Jamies, Melora, Todd, Jimmy and Brian, Byron, my mom and dad, Jennifur Brandt, and Gothic Beauty mag. for compelling me to make this