White Power Music

This article reviews the scholarly literature on music produced from the 1980s to the present by Western far-right political actors. Research on this topic has been conducted primarily by sociologists and political scientists rather than musicologists, the article claims, and these scholars often focus on the political, economic, and social consequences of the music, rather than its sound or performance. The article argues that the terminology in this literature is inconsistent, with some scholars using the term "White power music" to refer specifically to a style that originated from the British skinhead scene of the 1980s and other scholars employing it to refer to far-right music in general. Despite many attempts to address the phenomenon of far-right music holistically, the literature has overemphasized skinhead music while largely ignoring other genres, including those of more recent and politically successful far-right movements. The article argues that developing more detailed, rather than generalized, analyses and giving more attention to music beyond skinhead genres would serve the needs of scholars and anti-far-right activists alike, providing the detailed accounting necessary to map, analyze, or counteract far-right politics.

El presente trabajo es estudio exploratorio acerca de la música y estética Fashwave, sus motivos, mensajes y relación con el movimiento Alt Right y el nacionalismo blanco, utilizando como ámbito de investigación las Redes Sociales Youtube, Soundcloud y Facebook. Determinar a los principales exponentes de las expresiones artísticas Fashwave y delimitar las diferencias con otros géneros afines (hasta Mayo del 2019).