Eli5: How did the term “Goth” go from Germanic tribes destroying Rome, to the music and fashion we know today?

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Eli5: How did the term “Goth” go from Germanic tribes destroying Rome, to the music and fashion we know today?

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Answer 1

The Gothic architecture was named in early medieval period as Modern Work/New Work. Calling it Gothic architecture or Barbarous German Style was a pejorative name used by contemporaries Latin/Italian.

The name Gothic Architecture became the more widespread name for that style of architecture and eventually lost its pejorative nature.

Another comment explained how it went from Architecture to music.