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Thursday, August 6, 2009

GOTHICS SUBCULTURE IN MALAYSIA

A youth subculture is a youth-based subculture with distinct styles, behaviors, and interests. Many youth subcultures are associated with specific music genres. Examples of youth subcultures is punk rockers, ravers, Metal heads, Goths, hip hoppers, emo and indie.

WHAT IS GOTHICS?

Crazy of Gothics! Gothics or Goths is music genres come from branch of rock music by the late 1970s. Originally, Gothics is a music brought by a band who struggle for a punk rock rhythm which then change to romantic and fantasy rhythm. It is associated with Gothics tastes in music and in Gothics fashion. Styles of dress range from Gothics horror, punk, Victorian and lots of black.

GOTHICS FASHION

Gothics fashion is stereotyped as a dark, sometimes abnormal, eroticized fashion and style of dress. Typical Gothics fashion includes dyed of black hair, dark eyeliner, black fingernails, black period-styled clothing. Gothics may or may not have piercings. Styles are often borrowed from the Elizabethan, Victorian or medieval period and often express Catholic of other religious imagery. Their use of black clothing was originally "something of a backlash to the colorful disco music of the seventies.

GOTHICS IN MALAYSIA

Now, the youth in Malaysia also influenced with the Gothics subculture. However, unfortunately, they follow this subculture without knowing what is the purpose and the history of Gothics subculture. Even some of them also do not know what actually Gothics music is. Actually, in western country, the Gothics fashion arise at early aged and this fashion is very popular in Japan.

HOW ARE GOTHICS RECRUITED?

Everybody wonders why do they love to dress up like that. May be they need a lots of love or attention from other peoples. A lot of people turn to the Gothics subculture after having a hard time in school, feeling alienated, and looking for a way to express themselves that mirrors those feelings. Others find the scene through literature, still others want to be shocking, and some people just find black clothing slimming.

The most powerful mode of recruitment for Gothics is music. Many young people are originally attracted through concert and music fests. Gothics rock is a musical sub genre of alternative rock that formed during the late 1970s. Gothics rock bands grew from the strong ties they
had to the English punk rock and emerging post-punk scenes. Examples of Gothics rock bands are Advent sleep, Black Ice, The Damned, Ghose Dance, Ikon, James Rays Gangwar and more.

The Malaysia's youth also involve in Gothics subculture because of Gothics fashion. They think that the fashion is suitable for the younger. Gothics fashion is a clothing style worn by members of the Gothics subculture. They wearing an unique accessory, short skirt or blouse, eyeliner,high heel shoes, dark lipstick and
dyed black hair.

SUMMARY

In Malaysia, almost half of the youth have join this subculture. We can see this members of Gothics subculture in big city such as Kuala Lumpur, Shah Alam and more. Therefore, parents are play an important role to decreases the number of members of Gothics subculture in Malaysia.

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