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Ok, though I agree with Draconysius that the fashion is not that important (as a person can listen to goth music and have, lets say, a "goth lifestyle and way of thinking" and not dress the part), it is also true that many goths listen to many other kinds of music apart from "gothic music".
I think that "goth" in this sense is more like an addition of many things, a combination of a general fashion style, a music style, certain artistic works (writings, paintings, etc...), a lifestyle, etc... that people come to when they have a certain way of thinking and certain tastes. It's true, many people wouldn't dress in black if they weren't influenced by the scene, but anyway, they DO like dressing goth, don't they? The same goes for tastes in music and other artistic stuff as well.
To explain it in another way, I think that goth is in its core a way of seeing the world that is later transformed into more "physical" stuff (like fashion or arts) by certain individuals who have that way of seeing the world. They, as people, are influenced by other things, and influence over other things as well; and other people who happen to have that mindset find these manifestations specially interesting and inspiring, and therefore, allow themselves to be influenced by them.
Like it or not, we, as human beings, cannot evolve without recieving ides from other people, no matter how individualistic we are. Goth is a correlation of many things, and music and fashion are both a part of it, but they're not everything.
I hope I have made myself understood ^^U Maybe it looks too abstract...
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