What Is The Gothic Subculture?

A subculture or underground culture, is a cultural or countercultural movement, minority, almost closed and with its own tints.
At the end of the 70s, residual groups of the punk movement were formed, the post punk, which were identified as gothic. Towards 1980 the rock music of these groups takes its own tints, of criticism and protest against society, Gothic Rock, identifying themselves as Gothic.
In July 1982, their first meeting place, The BatCave, was created in London's SoHo, a nightclub where bands of the nascent Gothic Rock also performed.
It is here also where the characteristics of the Gothic movement are defined as a protest against the rigidity and decadence of current society, which presents itself as light and progress, where the identity of the human being is reduced to being a number. As part of this protest, they adopt a dress based on the fashion of the Victorian era of the 19th century, due to the moral rigidity and the customs, and clothing, mainly combinations of black and white or dark garments, which characterized that period in the history of England. To this they add a white base makeup, to provide a livid and cadaverous look, highlighted with black and red makeup on the lips and around the eyes. Music becomes the form of protest against our decadent society.

The combination of Gothic culture with New Wave movements, created a movement known as Dark Culture, Dark Culture, which has spread throughout most of the world. world, calling them differently in the world: Darks, Darkies or Darketos (Latin America and Italy), Grufties, in Germany, Mallgoths, NeoHoth or Tumb Man in the United States. United; Sinister or Gothic in Spain.