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John Robb - The Art Of Darkness: A History Of Goth
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The
first
ever
complete
overview
of
Goth
culture
will
be
released
in
2023.
Finally,
after
a
decade
of
work,
countless
interviews
and
immersing
himself
into
the
culture,
John
Robb's
definitive
book
is
a
journey
far
into
The
Art
Of
Darkness.
The
first
in-depth
book
on
Goth
is
a
deep
dive
into
the
enduring
culture
and
the
social,
historical
and
political
backdrop
that
created
the
space
for
The
Art
Of
Darkness
to
thrive.
680
pages
with
interviews
with
the
likes
of
Andrew
Eldritch,
Killing
Joke,
Bauhaus,
The
Cult,
The
Banshees,
The
Damned,
Einsturzende
Neubauten,
Danielle
Dax,
Johnny
Marr,
Trent
Reznor,
Adam
Ant,
Laibach,
The
Cure,
Nick
Cave
and
many
others,
this
is
a
deep
dive
and
walk
on
the
dark
side
and
into
the
very
heartland
of
Goth.
Every
generation
has
got
to
deal
with
the
blues
-
embrace
the
melancholy.
Find
a
beauty
in
the
darkness,
a
poetry
in
sex
and
death...Whether
it’s
the
Roman
love
of
ghost
stories,
European
macabre
folk
tales
of
the
Middle
Ages,
Romantic
poets,
or
the
original
Gothic
tribes
sacking
the
Eternal
City,
a
walk
on
the
dark
side
has
always
had
its
attractions.
In
the
post-punk
period,
Generation
Xerox
saw
music,
clothes
and
culture
come
together
to
create
one
of
the
most
enduring
pop
cultures
of
them
all
that
still
resonates
to
this
day..
Goth.
It
may
have
been
a
retrospective
term
for
a
scene
that
was
already
thriving,
but
its
back
story
goes
back
millennia.
The
book
starts
with
the
fall
of
Rome
and
ends
with
Instagram
and
Tik
Tok
influencers,
taking
diversions
through
Lord
Byron,
European
folk
tales,
Indian
sadhus,
Gothic
architecture,
Romantic
poets,
philosophers
and
idealists
before
coalescing
through
the
dark
end
of
the
Sixties’
youthquake,
and
then
blooming
like
Baudelaire’s
Les
Fleurs
Du
Mal
in
the
post-punk
period.
Defying
the
broken
heartland
of
the
post-industrial
cities,
the
semi-forgotten
satellite
towns
and
the
grim
real
politic
of
the
Thatcher
years,
this
was
a
post-punk
culture
full
of
dark
dance
and
a
death
disco.
The
music
soundtracked
the
style
and
a
Stygian
obsidian
soundtrack
fused
the
many
fragments
of
culture
that
had
been
flirted
with
in
the
post-war
pop
narrative;
a
darker
culture
that
began
to
coalesce
around
the
holy
trinity
of
the
Doors,
the
Velvets
and
the
Stooges
in
the
late
Sixties
before
flirting
with
glam
rock,
being
amplified
by
punk,
exploding
as
Goth,
and
then
splintering
into
electronic
dance
music,
industrial,
psychobilly
and
new
Goth,
before
finally
filtering
through
dystopian
Hollywood
blockbusters,
modern
literature
and
throughout
the
modern
world.
In
the
late
Seventies,
Goth
culture
emerged
around
a
clutch
of
bands
who
found
a
new
form
of
beauty
in
the
apocalyptic
foreboding,
as
a
new
youth
tribe
took
glam
rock
from
the
catwalk
to
the
cobbles
and
onto
their
own
dance
floors,
creating
their
own
art
of
darkness.
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