10 Must Read Books For Goths
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- čas přidán 25. 08. 2024
- Goth lore goes hard friend bats. There's a lot to be learned about the factors that formed the subculture and music that we now call goth, and not all of it was straight from Leeds, the Batcave, or the UK. We're taking you on a short trip through our libraries to show you some of the most useful books we've read. This isn't us reading Wikipedia and we're going beyond the surface level to bring you information you won't find anywhere else
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Books we talk about:
Some Wear Leather, Some Wear Lace: The Worldwide Compendium of Postpunk and Goth in the 1980s by Andi Harriman & Marloes Bontje (2014)
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Rip It Up and Start Again: Postpunk 1978-1984 by Simon Reynolds (2006)
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Goth: A History by Lol Tolhurst (2023)
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Kraftwerk: Future Music from Germany by Uwe Schütte (2021)
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Young Limbs Rise Again: The Story Of The Batcave Nightclub 1982-1985 (2023)
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Sweet Dreams: The Story of the New Romantics by Dylan Jones (2021)
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The Trouser Press guide to new wave records by Ira Robbins (1983)
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No Wave: Post-Punk. Underground. New York. 1976-1980 by Thurston Moore & Byron Coley (2008)
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Subculture: The Meaning of Style by Dick Hebdige (1979)
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Punk Diary: 1970-1979 by George Gimarc (1994)
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I will be making my attempts to hunt a few of these down at some of my local used book shops. Thanks for the list!
thanks for the reading list, Azy and Chandler! that deep fried, bass boosted goth song at the beginning woke me the hell up!
Hahahaha I have no idea what happened, goddamn
Scarecrow and I are convinced we’re being censored by the elder goth council for revealing too much
Great recs 🖤 I'll keep an eye out for these.
Going to add Facing the Other Way: the Story of 4AD
Thanks for the post love me some books 😊😊😊
I love these book reviews or recommendations. They all sound interesting & worthwhile. Thank you 😊
Maybe this is my LA bias showing, but I'm surprised that Mikey Bean's Phantoms didn't make the list! Anyway, I need to pull the plug and get that Young Limbs colllection.
That’s cause we have a whole series coming up that uses Phantoms as a primary reference. Scarecrow does mention it in this vid! But don’t worry, it’s gonna get its due
You’re gonna love gonna love our upcoming videos, because that book is majorly important in them!
Going to need several episodes! It’s sooooooooi big
Wow great video !!! thank you so much for these recommendations 🖤🦇
Thanks for this overview and also the sympathetic and positive review of the - now almost 10 years old - book that Andi and I made. In did a lot of research between 2008 and 2014 on my favorite music and especially collecting photos of goths of the 80s. I collected the photos on the Nowthisisgothic Tumblr. Andi followed that Tumblr and approached me in 2012. We shared some ideas and ambitions and then decided to work together for a publication. After the publication, I graduated my History studies and in recent years, more books approaching goth and postpunk from a historical perspective have been added, which, given my background, I can only welcome! (don't worry about my last name; no-one outside of the Netherlands ever gets it and I don't mind :--))
Keep on reading X
Thank you so much for sharing the story of the book! I appreciate the work you put into it; it’s in my opinion one of the best primer books on the subculture. I’ve lost track of how many copies I’ve bought and gifted out to people
What about The Art Of Darkness:The History Of Goth by John Robb. I haven't picked it up yet but enjoyed the interview Ken over at Sounds & Shadows with John on the book.
Azy here, I read it and it wasn’t really my favorite. It doesn’t really cover new ground or offer new insights, and John didn’t include references or citations. So my academic stickler self kinda ranks that book low as a resource
@@ObscuraUndead Thanks Azy for the reply and information on the book. I may hold of purchasing it now but definitely will be getting Lol Tolhurst.
Thank you both so much for the video. Out of the 10 books from this review I didn't read 4 of them 2 from each side of your sections. When it comes to the subculture I liked magazines & watching documentaries only because it was more widely available at the time. However I've always liked reading gothic novels & the poetry classic.
I absolutely love gothic novels and it’s awesome that gothic literature has been having a revival too. But documentaries, any recommendations?
@@ObscuraUndead I've been reading a of Darcy Coates lately I just started my 5th book. It's been a while for the documentaries I think there were a couple on BBC a long time ago in the early 2000 only reason why I remember that is because I was overseas when I watch them. It was all about the 90's I think I'm sure it's on CZcams somewhere.
Young Limbs had an exhibition in a shop that had been turned in to an art gallery (single room facing on to the street), featuring the originals of some of the pictures you'd have seen in the book.
Think it was a pop-up shop/gallery rather than a permanent location (but could be wrong). The exhibition was at the Museum of Youth Culture shop at 95 Berwick Street in Soho. Incidentally the Leather and Lace book was launched elsewhere in London, at the The Loading Bar, Stoke Newington (also a gaming pub and early home to Oxventure).
Friend bats 🖤🦇🦇🦇
0:46 What song is that?
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OH NO!! Fuck
The shadowy goth overlords censored me. The world wasn’t ready for what I had to say.
hello :) what are the books in spanish you recommend?
Quiero Ser Santa by Fernando O. Paino, Paralisis Permanente Adictos a la Lujuria by Marcos Gendre, and Jumping Someone Else’s Train by José Hernandez Riwes Cruz
thank you
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Thanks for the post love me some books 😊😊😊