Punks grow out of it and ravers cease raving. Why achieve goths just carry on? Sociologists can explainWhat happens when a teenage goth grows up? Gets a job,takes on a mortgage, has a couple of kids…? Can you combine elaborate Frankenstein invent-up and a lace-up bustier with getting a toddler ready for nursery and yourself to work on time?Dr Paul Hodkinson, and deputy head of Surrey University's sociology department and an expert in youth music subcultures,has been re-interviewing a group of goths he first studied in the late 1990s to find out. "They were teenagers and in their early 20s then, and I thought it would be interesting to go back because a number of people achieve stay involved in the goth scene, and " he explains.
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Source: theguardian.com