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Goth music began as an offshoot of punk rock in Britain, with its birth date generally accepted as 1979. That year saw the release of "Bela Lugosi's Dead," a discordant, atmospheric, nine-minute single by a fledgling band named Bauhaus. Now, "Gothic music and fashion appeal to a lot of people who don't necessarily consider themselves goths," explains Annemarie Vayda of Asleep By Dawn, a gothic magazine with over 20,000 subscribers.

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