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Trendy fascism : White power music and the future of democracy / Nancy S. Love.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: SUNY series in new political sciencePublisher: Albany : State University of New York Press, [2016]Description: 1 online resource (xii, 255 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781438462059
  • 1438462050
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Trendy fascism.DDC classification:
  • 305.809/073 23
LOC classification:
  • ML3916 .L69 2016eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Mobilizing white power: music, culture, and politics -- Playing with hate: racist skinheads, Skrewdriver, and liberal tolerance -- Imaging a white nation: neo-nazi folk, family values, and Prussian Blue -- Building a church: Rahowa, heavy metal, and racial ecology -- Recycling white trash: aesthetics, music, and democracy.
Summary: Popular music plays a major role in mobilizing citizens, especially youth, to fight for political causes. Yet the presence of music in politics receives relatively little attention from scholars, politicians, and citizens. White power music is no exception, despite its role in recent high-profile hate crimes. Trendy Fascism is the first book to explore how contemporary white supremacists use popular music to teach hate and promote violence. Nancy S. Love focuses on how white power music supports "trendy fascism," a neo-fascist aesthetic politics. Unlike classical fascism, trendy fascism involves a hyper-modern cultural politics that exploits social media to create a global white supremacist community. Three case studies examine different facets of the white power music scene: racist skinhead, neo-Nazi folk, and goth/metal. Together these cases illustrate how music has replaced traditional forms of public discourse to become the primary medium for conveying white supremacist ideology today. Written from the interdisciplinary perspective on culture, economics, and politics best described as critical theory, this book is crucial reading for everyone concerned about the future of democracy. -- Provided by publisher.
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Mobilizing white power: music, culture, and politics -- Playing with hate: racist skinheads, Skrewdriver, and liberal tolerance -- Imaging a white nation: neo-nazi folk, family values, and Prussian Blue -- Building a church: Rahowa, heavy metal, and racial ecology -- Recycling white trash: aesthetics, music, and democracy.

Popular music plays a major role in mobilizing citizens, especially youth, to fight for political causes. Yet the presence of music in politics receives relatively little attention from scholars, politicians, and citizens. White power music is no exception, despite its role in recent high-profile hate crimes. Trendy Fascism is the first book to explore how contemporary white supremacists use popular music to teach hate and promote violence. Nancy S. Love focuses on how white power music supports "trendy fascism," a neo-fascist aesthetic politics. Unlike classical fascism, trendy fascism involves a hyper-modern cultural politics that exploits social media to create a global white supremacist community. Three case studies examine different facets of the white power music scene: racist skinhead, neo-Nazi folk, and goth/metal. Together these cases illustrate how music has replaced traditional forms of public discourse to become the primary medium for conveying white supremacist ideology today. Written from the interdisciplinary perspective on culture, economics, and politics best described as critical theory, this book is crucial reading for everyone concerned about the future of democracy. -- Provided by publisher.

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