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Absence of Gothic, and Gothic Rock (in the All Music Guide book!)

Dear people,

       All music staff, I was trying to explain a newbie what Gothic Rock was, and I got the best reference I could get. In my inquiry over "Genre Essays and Maps" (by p.1303) I could find "The Birth of Rock N'Roll, Garage, Psychedelic etc. But nothing relating to Gothic! Owl my god, what a fiasco. I went on your online database and couldn't find it as well. Pardon my ignorance, but by hitting Goth in your search field, I can only find Albums and Singles. None related to the genre.

Sincerely,
Marcio Hendrik
Musician / Producer
artigoaudio.com

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Just in case,

I also looked for "Art Rock" and couldn't find it in both books (AMG Electronica and Rock), so then I visited Wikipedia, and I was able to find external links pointing to your site reviews.

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Hi Marcio,
Sounds like you are doing great research and thanks for thinking of AllMusic as a tool to do so.

Our Genres, Subgenres and Styles are the way we categorize the music on the site.

Under the Genre of Pop/Rock   is the Subgenre Alternative/Indie Rock and within that Subgenre is the Style Goth Rock:
https://www.allmusic.com/style/goth-rock-ma0000002623

You are correct that our search only presents albums, artists, songs, compositions, record labels and articles, but not these Genres/Subgenres/Styles.

One good way to navigate to them would be to find an album or artist that represents the music you're interested in, and then clicking on the blue links on that page.

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Hello Zac! Thank you for your guidelines. 

Marcio

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