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Here is a wide review of gothic history and phylosophy...Sorry, right now is only partly translated from Ukrainian to English...But the whole article to be traslated soon... Goths - style, phylosophy and history (version 2.0) gothic. absolute individualism. "you should be strong by heart and soul- if you don't - what is the reason to live?" Goths take power and energy from those music and art which make other people to feel depression and confusion. Gothic music and lifestyle is for those who want more from life, emotions, music, art, etc.. The goal of this article - to explain in a short way who are goths ( nowadays this is one of most progressive and widening subcultures on in the world and the one and only subculture of INDIVIDUALISM ) .
The Goths
are above all an lifestyle, ideology, which is based on some definite
principles of life and has its own midpoints, they are: obscure energy and
philosophically- mystic texts of gothic music (The Sisters Of Mercy, In Strict Confidence,
KINO (Victor Tsoy), HIM, KOMU VNYZ, etc) + black color and image
HISTORY Goths exist from the beginning of the 80's. Gothic and goths have harmonically
appeared from the mix of obscure power and aggression of dying post punk ( Joy
Division, Virgin Prunes, Siouxsie and the Banshees etc) and aesthetic and energy of
nascent new wave One of the
post uinteressting questions is from where the wolrd and definition gothic came. In my
opinion and merging all the facts and ideas there can three reasons. It could be called
"gothic" because of first - "gothic" (deep, powerful)
vocals could be compared with ancient, powerful, gloomy and energetic appeal
of tribe of goths and second - they had a-la ancient clothes on :
old black clothes, boots, silver jewelry, long black chaotic hair (a lot of bands had
a mixture of different styles, some of them looked like medieval cowboy-goths
Then appeared a one
of the first gothic symbols – a star which was a symbol of knowledge and burned skin on
t the end of 80th
beginning of 90th gothic transformed and involved bordering spheres of Magazines devoted to gothic and near-gothic styles (synth pop, industrial, dark wave, EBM, dark electro, medieval, dark folk, new wave, neo classic etc) appeared. The first wave (‘Naked Truth’, ‘Propaganda’) of so called zines weeded out all useless editions. Among piles of various editions four leaders were distinguished – ‘Orkus’, ‘Zillo’, ‘Sonic Seducer’, ‘Gothic’ ( all magazines were from Germany). 'явилися журнали, які були вже суцільно присвячені готиці (gothic) і близьким до неї стилям (synth pop, industrial, dark wave, EBM, dark electro, medieval, dark folk, new wave, neo classic, etc..) Around 88-89 more and more bands which are strictly based on electronics come from Germany - Girls Under Glass, Deine Lakaien, In My Rosary, Love is Colder Than Death, etc... This current starts to grow more and more at the same time with general grow of fans of electronic gothic and style crossing with it - dark wave, EBM, dark electro, etc.. ( TO BE TRANSLATED SOON ) PHYLOSOPHY AND STYLE ЯIf try to say short and strict , then the goths are :
2- Слухають готичну і коло-готичну музику - Починаючи з готичного, філософського року ( gothic rock, death rock) - The Sisters of Mercy, The Mission, Bauhaus, The Cure, Fields of the Nephilim, etc- в славянському виразі (soviet "phylosophic rock") - Віктора Цоя, трохи язицької Аліси і частково мінливих НАУ... проходячи через готичний метал і індастріал, комерційну готику ( gothic metal , industrial ) - Type o Negative, Nine Inch Nails, HIM, Paradise Lost, Rammstein.. до містичної і язицької готики ( dark folk, pagan gothic, occult gothic, satan gothic) - Inkubbus Sukkubus, Current 93, Death in June, Sol Incvitus, Marylin Manson, etc... і до близьких чи то пограничних стилів - різна єлектронна "темна" хвиля (dark wave, synth pop, EBM, dark electro, goth synth) - Wumpscut, Front 242, Deine Lakaien, Depeche Mode, De/vision, VNV Nation, Razed in Black, In Strict Confidence, etc.. ( ДАЛІ БУДЕ ) Музика - не залежно від того наскільки важка - готичний рок, чи готичний метал - майже завжди похмура чи сумна музика з "ангельскими" жіночими бек-вокалами, елементами хорового співу, колоколами, достатньо частим використанням друм-машин, і вставками "темної електроніки". Основний вокал - чи зичний "готичний" голос ( в більшості випадків чоловічний ) чи вкрадливий, відьмовський ( жіночий). Інколи злий шепот. Тексти - в спектрі від суто філософських і романтичних до суто містичних, язицьких,"темних" і и т.д. В більшості випадків поєднання всіх цих елемнтів і дає музиці та групі визначення "готична".
4- Мають свій імідж - чорний колір одягу , інколи з елементами червоного, тільки срібло...У дівчат ярко-виразний стиль Вамп - важка чорна косметика, підводки, спектр кольорів помади і нігтів - від якро-червоного ( кривавого ) до чорного.... 5- Сповідують достатньо похмурий стиль життя - сарказм, іронічне ставлення до життя, чорний гумор.... готи -
чужинці суспільства у чорному, у яких є своя
філософія ,музика та світогляд,література,арт і
що так почали називатися іншими ,бо не було
іншого, найвлучнішого слова історично і щоб була
категорія готів - яка є захисним кордоном між
ними і навалою суспільства і
загально-суспільного світогляду. Готика - це життевий стиль індивідуалізму. Ми знаемо , що ми є готи. Готи - захисна категорія, за допомогою якої ми відділили себе від канонів і постулатів дешевого і закомерціалізованого суспільства, від усього стандартного і простого. Для того, щоб бути готом потрібно лише бути самим собою і не відхрещуватися від своїх "занадто" похмурих, депресивних, меланхолійних смаків і стилю життя.... "If the people we love are stolen from us, the way to have them live on is to never stop loving them. Buildings burn, people die ... but real love is forever...." (the Crow)
ВFeel free and welcome to send any comments and critics...With you wish i can include your notes, of course with all copyrights protected...Send comments to : fedunvitaliy@hotmail.com , fedun@i.kiev.ua by Vitaliy "stranger" Fedun Ця сттатя виражає виключно точку зору автора.І погляд на готику і готів з точки зору автора. І не претендує на право бути першою ( хоча на Україні - перша ) чи найкращою. Хоча вся інформація вже реально відома , і по нижчевказаним принципам і за таким світоглядом живуть тисячі готтів. Comments to : stranger@gothic.com.ua Ukrainian Gothic Portal © 2000-2001
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While
being for some time in Europe I have noticed a regularity- here the only two subcultures
are distinctly distinguished – pop-rave-commercially-color culture- as a temporary
today’s culture. And the goths ( as a formation which 
(women have definite cosmetics and vamp style) by means of that we can
distinguish one 
another
in a crowd + literature that gives us desire for thinking and a
possibility to understand ourselves and our instincts + movies that
give us a start and then think (Tharkowsky, Cubrik, Paradzhanow etc – “The Crow”,
“Odyssey 2000”) + art which doesn’t allow us to be the users
( + all that that everyone see in gothic…As every goth has his own determinations as to
the goths and gothic. And everyone is a goth in one’s own way. May be this IS gothic… 
At the time when the youth had been full with post punk and
there were no alternative to commercial rock and pop, then for all those who had
some definite tastes to music and life there was no way to get some other music
besides simple one. 
electro but stylistics were equally gloomy,
melancholic, some times energetic, sometimes decadence or depressive. But that was energy.
The energy for those who doesn’t like that simple and jolly tinsel of art. They were
listened to by people who also started to wear black ( the color became a characteristic
feature for goths ) and by those who found their principles of life in that music and who needed the
energy of that sorrowful, dreary, depressive music with wicked ironic texts…Unlike the others – GOTHS TAKE AND HAVE TAKEN THE
STRENTH from this very music, which others took as suicidal or too gloomy… At that time
papers and magazines (‘Melody Maker’, ‘New Music Express’, ‘Sounds’ etc)
and society called those bands gothic, the music was called GOTHIC or gothic rock ,
and those who liked the music and started to live the particular lifestyle- GOTHS. 
, for instance Fields of the Nephilim and The Sisters of Mercy)
nowadays goths unify black leather and simple black clothes), thirdly -
there were philosophic and at the same time mental elements such as belief, other dark
sides of life, despair, belief in oneself, contradictions of internal emotions, pain, god,
mystics, fighting against social dogma etc. in the texts of those bands
( especially The Sisters of Mercy and The Mission). That means there were the texts owning
to that gothic became popular among those people who needed everything real and
difficult for understanding by the whole society, though worth to understand by an
individual. Gothic became a style of intellectual egoists and a feature of a real taste,
which can not be perceived by everybody
a man as a symbol of his attempts to go through
society and its principles to achieve his mental goal and come to himself…. This
symbol was created by The Sisters of Mercy’s leader Andrew Eldritch who was considered
to be a godfather of gothic, to be a man who created that style. Andrew Eldtritch was the
person nobody knew a lot about, except for information about his speaking in 8 languages,
the fact that he had traveled around the world, had lived in India, Saudi Arabia, none had
ever seen his eyes as he always wore black sunglasses, he didn’t like journalists, made
one album per 10 years, 8 video that considered to be the best in the sphere, all releases
became ‘gold’, and his lyrics which could
be the subject for books as they were so sophisticated and harmonic at the same
time… 
As to the clothes, from the beginning of 80's besides simply
black things and silver Goths began to wear leather. For today it is a characteristic
feature of goths. From my point of view , black color was a kind of protest against a
common public point of view that black is bad, black is Satanism, protest against
common fool opinion of society based on TV and media. And also there is view
that black is color which protects you , goth, from simple, colourful and stupid life
around. It's like a wall. Shield from society. But even nowadays goths are
often mistakenly confused with Satanists in mass media and by some groups of people.
Although goths are really wide-known right now. Goths are not just about clothes. Goths
wear black but it's just an expression of internal thoughts and attitudes outside, they
also usually are suppose to have a deep soul and hidden wolrd inside...
art and life- literature, films, art , photo etc. At that time all those
spheres got a corresponding definition- gothic. 
1- Мають так
званий готичний світогяд - в принципі -
завжди дивитися на темні сторони життя не
закриваючи на них очі. Знати правду і похмуро
іронізувати з неї ( принцип даків - Die Loughing/Вмирай
посміхаючись ). Відчувати себе нормально з своїм
похмурим настроем та поглядами і брати з нього
енергію. Готи беруть енергію і життєву
наснагу с тої музики, літератури, арту і
філософії, яка інших просто депресує і здаеться
занадто похмурою. Також як вказано в
життевій фолософії - сповідуть достатньо
серйозні життеві принципи - які балансують на
грані - СЬОГОДНІШНІЙ ДЕНЬ ОСТАННІЙ ( але його
потрібно відповідно по справжньому прожити ) і
загально-зажованих-тривіальних СПРАВЖНЯ ВІРА в
себе,в справжню дружбу і любов, постійний пошук
чогось справжнього, нового - в житті, музиці, арті
і т.д..... ( "She always said simple, trivial things - I used to say it was kinda
trivial - Believe me nothing is trivial !" , The Crow ) 
3- Мають свою життеву
філософію , хоча у кожного гота вона різна
- але загалом базується на чомусь середньому
між життям по принципам Віктора Цоя
, маючи життеві ідеали романів Ремарка
( "Тріумфальна Арка" , "Чорний обеліск" ,
"Три товариші" і т.д. ) , поезії Байрона і
т.д. та істинами, які базовими для фільма
"Ворон" ( the Crow )...
енергію і життєву
наснагу с тої музики, літератури, арту і
філософії, яка інших просто депресує і здаеться
занадто похмурою.
