Subcultures, pop music and politics: skinheads and "Nazi rock" in England and Germany.

From: Journal of Social History | Date: September 22, 2004| Author: Brown, Timothy S. | Copyright information

Right-wing extremist rock music--so-called "Nazi rock"--is one of the most problematic of popular musical genres. Emerging from the skinhead youth subculture in Britain at the end of the 1970s, and spreading to the continent and across the Atlantic in the following decade, it has served as accompaniment to a rising tide of racist and anti-immigrant violence in Germany, and become a focus of recruiting for the radical right world-wide. Yet as a generic category, "Nazi rock" is inher...

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