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Goth Histories
  • ISSN: 2044-1983
  • E-ISSN: 2044-3706

Abstract

Feminist musicology has studied and questioned the dynamics of power, privilege and discrimination that have developed in the history of popular music due to gender. In line with these contributions, there is an intention of recovering the memory and value of the first Goth group formed entirely of women in Vigo (Galicia, Spain): Voces de Ultratumba. The quality of their music, performance, lyrics and activism is not referenced as it should be in the collective imagination, which is unaware of its existence. The documented record is very scarce since its formation in 1984, as opposed to the amount of information about mixed groups or male bands of that time. Thus, after digitizing newspaper articles and live material, data collection was also performed by biographical-narrative methodology of life history. Its three original members – Chus Taboada, Marisé Izquierdo and Eva Izquierdo – were interviewed and their discourse was analysed through grounded theory (GT). Historical press was also consulted. The details of this analysis are presented in this article. The results of it indicate that, despite the political, musical and social openness that Spain was going through after the death of the Dictator Francisco Franco on 20 November 1975, gender roles continued to operate even in the underground scene, where the political–musical experiences of dissident identities were left out of official Goth history.

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This study was supported by the:
  • ‘Música y medios audiovisuales en España: creación, mediación y negociación de significados’ (MusMAE) (Award PID2019-106479GB-I00)
  • Agencia Estatal de Investigación (AEI) (Award 10.13039/501100011033)
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The all-female Goth band that never existed: Voces de Ultratumba
Punk & Post-Punk 13, 237 (2024); https://doi.org/10.1386/punk_00249_1
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