Propaganda 1982–2002

Published during the 1980s and 1990s, Propaganda focused on all topics related to goth, including fashion, fetish gear, witchcraft, and literature, as well as music. Founded by the journalist and photographer Fred H. Berger in 1982, who was credited in some issues of the zine as “Propaganda Minister”, the zine included interviews with major musical artists, from Siouxsie and the Banshees to Bauhaus to The Cure, as well as with the American gothic novelist Anne Rice. Photographs, often taken by Berger, commonly featured androgynous young men and women in fetish gear. Given the number of alternative and underground genres associated with the goth aesthetic—ranging from industrial music and darkwave to neo-psychedelia and dream pop—Propaganda serves as a significant historical record of early alternative and indie music in general.