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Trendy Fascism

Trendy Fascism

White Power Music and the Future of Democracy

by Nancy S. Love
Hardback
Publication Date: 01/08/2016

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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.
ISBN:
9781438462035
9781438462035
Category:
Music
Format:
Hardback
Publication Date:
01-08-2016
Language:
English
Publisher:
State University of New York Press
Country of origin:
United States
Dimensions (mm):
228.6x152.4x25.4mm
Weight:
0.23kg

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