themselves as something different with clothes that couldn’t be found in stores at the time Mainstream which rejected these people at first began to like them–so punk gets more extreme New types of punk develop in the 1970s to become un-mainstream again–like hardcore/emocore/scream Seige band as one of the first hardcore bands–more aggressive and faster than original punk This music was never accepted by mainstream Goth was a movement that came out of original punk Goth was originally called positive-punk AKA posi-punk because it dealt with emotional things/brooding like past lovers Goth music was concerned with atmosphere, not aggression like hardcore, so it had rhyming & poetry Bauhaus= first goth band, formed in 1978 and original members lasted until 1983 oIn 1979 they released their famous goth song = “Bela Lugosi’s Dead” oTheir music was a part of the soundtrack for “The Hunger” move in 1983 Goths looked to Interview with the Vampire for inspiration–vampire was a ready-made symbol for them Goth begins in London Other goth band =Sex Gang Children(1981 to 1984 with original members) oLead singer of SGC called himself Count Visigoth because he lived in an apartment complex called Visigoth Towers–lots of people liked his image so fans became “Followers of Count Visigoth” shortened to“goths” Other bands formed in London & spread The Batcavewas established in 1982–it was a club where many goth bands performed with a classic gothic atmosphere

Goth was probably used in language in 1981/1982 but it was first used in writing in Zig-Zag magazine in 1984(?) Goth becomes a big business–Hot Topic brought in millions of $ Now there are different types of goths–Hot Topic (poser) goths and more hardcore goths Goth music was never really accepted like punk was–but some symbols in clothing were oClothing was picked up by Monster High, which started in 2008 when Matel made dolls similar to Bratz but based on monsters/goths like Draculashows goth being appropriated in mainstream culture The start of real vampires oBegins in1989really with 6 types of real vampires but no real consistency 1.Blood fetishists: not killers, some people think they biologically/spiritually need blood (not all of them), defined: use blood during sex (blood play) 2.Living vampires: call themselves vampires but don’t believe they have a connection to folkloric vampires–use a different spelling to distinguish “Vampyre” Approaches vampire as a philosophy and/or religion (so don’t necessarily need blood) Temple of the Vampire–stems from Satanism which picks up in the 1960s when the Church of Satan begins (more of a hedonistic philosophy that says do what makes you happy without hurting anyone) Swaps symbol of Satan with vampire but have a new-age background (believe in ESP, UFOs, OOBE, NDE) 3.Psychic vampires:people who think they’re real vampires and they suck some sort of energy from people 

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