Goth music : from sound to subculture
- Submitting institution
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Kingston University
- Unit of assessment
- 33 - Music, Drama, Dance, Performing Arts, Film and Screen Studies
- Output identifier
- 33-49_1828
- Type
- A - Authored book
- DOI
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- Publisher
- Routledge
- ISBN
- 9780415720045
- Open access status
- Out of scope for open access requirements
- Month of publication
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- Year of publication
- 2016
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
- Yes
- Number of additional authors
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1
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- Yes
- Additional information
- Goth Music: From Sound to Subculture is a collaboration between Gothic musicologist Isabella van Elferen and Gothic literary critic Jeffrey Weinstock. This co-authored book, which was commissioned by Routledge for their Studies in Popular Music series, is the first monograph on music in the Goth subculture. Drawing on extensive fieldwork, interviews with Goth artists and subcultural participants, playlists obtained from events and DJs all over the world, substantive musical analysis, and engagement with a comprehensive range of sources – including popular music studies, media theory, subcultural studies, critical theory and literary theory – the book explores the ways in which music informs and shapes this subculture. The book provides insight into the convergence of music, fashion, olfactory input and Goth narratives at Goth events; moreover, the subcultural methodology employed here, in its informed negotiation and correction of the frameworks established in the Birmingham CCCS and others, also provides a new impetus for the analysis of other subcultures, scenes, and communities. The research for the book was carried out over a period of 3 years. The introduction was jointly written; Chapters 1 and 2 were written by Van Elferen; Chapters 3 and 4 were written by Weinstock. Van Elferen collected ethnographic data, interviews, photographs and playlists at Goth events in the UK, the Netherlands, and Germany. Van Elferen combined these practical data with extensive musical, subcultural, and media theoretical research in order to develop the model of Goth socio-musical networks and realities presented in Chapters 1 and 2.
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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