Romance-era art and literature of the 18th and 19th centuries inspired awe and terror. The ornate architecture and allegorical art of the European Dark Ages was called gothic. Its name and distinction of destruction and decay come from the Gothic tribes that conquered Rome in the 5th century AD. A heavy echo on every note, a voice enters the mix three minutes in: “White on white translucent black capes / Back on the rack / Bela Lugosi’s dead.”Ĭiting the late star of the 1931 film Dracula, the song carries the elegant morbidity of the film and countless other pieces of its kind.īauhaus’s 1979 single Bela Lugosi’s Dead was one of the first songs to be classified as gothic rock, marking the sonic genesis of an ancient paradigm. Bodies in intricate layers of corsets and capes, adorned with silver, sway together to the ominous tones. A pulse creeps into a creaking bass and a guitar melody, summoning a sea of black cloth to the dance floor. Occult symbols project onto dark walls and absinthe drips from cups. We spoke with key figures in the local scene on how the goth subculture lives on in Northeast Florida. A dark saga developed over hundreds of years, creating an expansive cultural network.
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