Some wear leather, some wear lace the worldwide compendium of postpunk and goth in the 1980s / by Andi Harriman and Marloes Bontje.

Variant title Worldwide compendium of postpunk and goth in the 1980s
Variant title Worldwide compendium of postpunk and goth in the nineteen eighties
Contents Intro -- Atmosphere -- Kings of the wild frontier -- Places: Scandinavia -- A New dark age -- Places: Behind the iron Curtain -- Everyday is Halloween -- This corrosion -- Memorabilia -- A new form of beauty -- Spirit (We love our audience!) -- Painted bird -- Places: Japan -- Like cockatoos -- Places: Grufti Nation -- Promised land -- Places: The Netherlands -- Face to face -- Meat of youth -- Photo Collections -- I. Style: Creatures of the night -- II. La Movida : New cultural identity -- III. Boredom of life : spheres and sentiments; IV. To the Batcave! -- V. Shot! : Becoming history -- Winklepickers -- The last song
Abstract It was a scene that had many names: some original members referred to themselves as punks, others, new romantics, new wavers, the bats, or the morbids. "Goth" did not gain lexical currency until the late 1980s. But no matter what term was used, "postpunk" encompasses all the incarnations of the 1980s alternative movement. Some Wear Leather, Some Wear Lace is a visual and oral history of the first decade of the scene. Featuring interviews with both the performers and the audience to capture the community on and off stage, the book places personal snapshots alongside professional photography to reveal a unique range of fashions, bands, and scenes. Alongside rare photographs, the interviewees discuss the motivations behind the dark aesthetic: the fashion, the art and, most of all, the music -- Source other than Library of Congress.
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Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2015514800
ISBN9781783203529 (paperback)
ISBN1783203528 (paperback)

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