How Victorian melodrama turned the sweet music of gothic into something dark and sinister
In 18th-century gothic, music was a light melodic release from dramatic scares. But with the arrival of melodrama in the 19th ...
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Goths: How an ancient people gave name to a contemporary subculture
It was labelled Gothic because it was considered the opposite of classical architecture ... Fast-forward to the late 1970s and the rise of a new music style with a dark mood, deep bass lines ...