Before Bauhaus: How Goth Became Goth

Goth is many things. It s a Germanic tribe, a style of architecture, a type of literature, of film. It s a youth movement. What ties most of these together is a sense of dark romanticism. But despite Marilyn Manson and My Chemical Romance being infamous for their adoption of gothic fashion, their music isn t what would traditionally be classified as goth. To quote Sasha Geffen of Pitchfork: Goth songs were marked by echoes, distortion, minimal guitar lines, and an arch taste for the macabre; their electr