Darkness in music
Certain music is sometimes described as "dark" in a metaphorical sense. In Germany, there is a category falls under the term schwarze szene, which "translates to 'black scene' and [has been] used since the 1990s to describe all the so called dark alternative music styles swirling around Goth: industrial, darkwave, electro, metal, neofolk and medieval, and for some reason also including BDSM/fetish culture".[1]
See also
Genres that begin with "dark"
- Darkcore, a subgenre of jungle
- Dark ambient, a subgenre of ambient
- Dark cabaret, a fusion between punk and cabaret
- Dark electro, an outgrowth of Electro-industrial and industrial music
- Dark folk, an outgrowth of industrial music
- Dark pop
- Dark psytrance, a subgenre of psychedelic trance
- Dark rock, an umbrella term describing a broad array of music
- Dark wave, a part of the new wave movement
Genres with related concepts
Other miscellaneous genres
References
- ↑ Liisa Ladouceur, Gary Pullin, "SCHWARZE SZENE", in Encyclopedia Gothica (2011).
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