Cemetery Confessions: What we Learned from the World's Largest Goth Survey

The Belfry Network

We speak with Emma to uncover the insights gleaned from her PhD study, which surveyed thousands of goths across dozens of countries! We’ll explore the relationship of death to goth identity, what truly makes goth fashion unique, debate the role the internet has played in the development of goth culture and more.

Read her article here, on page 74.

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Intro 00:00

Origin story 3:15

Study Results and Methodology 7:00

Role of Death and the Past in Goth 27:15

Resistance to the "mainstream" 42:23

Goth Fashion Through Plenitude 49:20

Semiotics and Appropriation 1:02:18

Socio-Aesthetic 1:14:45

The Internet 1:19:00

Aging in Goth 1:31:30

Post Show Musings 1:55:30

References: -Goldfields Gothic: Festival of Dark Ideas -Black Funerals in the US -Radical Death Studies -Cyborg Manifesto -Theories of Social Change -Asking the Gothic Questions -Postmodernism’s Epistemological Legacies -Plenitude -Musicking and Communitas -Paulo de Jesus -The Gothic and the Everyday -Socioaesthetics