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Musical metapolitics and the Alt-Right
Örebro University, School of Music, Theatre and Art. (ACCLAIM (Aesthetics, Culture and Media))ORCID iD: 0000-0002-9067-9496
2024 (English)In: European Journal of Cultural Studies, ISSN 1367-5494, E-ISSN 1460-3551Article in journal (Refereed) Epub ahead of print
Abstract [en]

With some notable exceptions, research on the far-right and music has historically focused on rock-derived genres such as punk and metal. As the far-right have shifted political emphasis and sought to mainstream their political views, so, too, has research into the contemporary far-right demonstrated a distancing among political ideologues and parties as well as groups from both extreme lyrics and ‘harsher’ sounding elements. This has gone hand-in-hand with an embracing of a wider range of musical styles. Focusing on the music associated with the Alt-Right, a broad movement which sought to mainstream far-right politics, this article suggests that a cultural shift within the far-right went hand-in-hand with a mode of aesthetic appreciation among Alt-Right adherents, which has implications for the mainstreaming of far-right politics in relation to musical cultures and aesthetics. This form of musical metapolitics emphasized dissonant principles of irony and aesthetic pluralism as a form of strategic ambiguity, but still retained notions of racial superiority at its core despite an avowed openness to genre-based pluralism. Importantly, this process has implications for the mainstreaming of far-right messaging today using a wide variety of musical aesthetics.

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Sage Publications, 2024.
Keywords [en]
Extremism, far-right, fashwave, mainstreaming, metal, music, NSBM, punk, radical right
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Musicology
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Musicology; Sociology; Political Science
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URN: urn:nbn:se:oru:diva-116770DOI: 10.1177/13675494241285650ISI: 001331564000001Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85206467282OAI: oai:DiVA.org:oru-116770DiVA, id: diva2:1905859
Available from: 2024-10-15 Created: 2024-10-15 Last updated: 2025-01-20Bibliographically approved

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