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343The History of White-Power Music in Continental Western EuropeLargely due to the efforts of early British white-power musicians like Ian Stuart Donaldson, white-power music spread to the European continent shortly after it initially developed in Britain. It appeared first in Germany, a product of Donaldson’s close relationships with Rock-O-Rama Records and German white-power activists. From there, scenes quickly began to arise in other Western European countries, blossoming especially during a short window in the 1990s when Internet communication had become widely available to the mainstream public and law enforcement agencies had not yet begun devoting serious resources to curtailing the genre’s proliferation. These scenes have developed into far more than simple shadows of their Brit-ish progenitor; in recent years, the German scene in particular seems even to have usurped much of the British scene’s former dominance. Moreover, some of the white-power music that has evolved in continental Western Europe, such as the Norwegian National Socialist black metal (NSBM) of the early 1990s, has produced fundamental shifts in the sound of white-power music worldwide. White-power ideological movements from outside Britain, like German neo-Nazism and Scandinavian racist paganism, have contributed important new concepts to the ideological canons of white-power musicians in Britain and elsewhere.
© 2019 Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick

343The History of White-Power Music in Continental Western EuropeLargely due to the efforts of early British white-power musicians like Ian Stuart Donaldson, white-power music spread to the European continent shortly after it initially developed in Britain. It appeared first in Germany, a product of Donaldson’s close relationships with Rock-O-Rama Records and German white-power activists. From there, scenes quickly began to arise in other Western European countries, blossoming especially during a short window in the 1990s when Internet communication had become widely available to the mainstream public and law enforcement agencies had not yet begun devoting serious resources to curtailing the genre’s proliferation. These scenes have developed into far more than simple shadows of their Brit-ish progenitor; in recent years, the German scene in particular seems even to have usurped much of the British scene’s former dominance. Moreover, some of the white-power music that has evolved in continental Western Europe, such as the Norwegian National Socialist black metal (NSBM) of the early 1990s, has produced fundamental shifts in the sound of white-power music worldwide. White-power ideological movements from outside Britain, like German neo-Nazism and Scandinavian racist paganism, have contributed important new concepts to the ideological canons of white-power musicians in Britain and elsewhere.
© 2019 Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick

Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter i
  2. Contents vii
  3. Acknowledgments ix
  4. 1. What Is White-Power Music? 1
  5. 2. The History Of White-Power Music In Britain 13
  6. 3. The History Of White-Power Music In Continental Western Europe 34
  7. 4. The History Of White-Power Music In Eastern Europe 76
  8. 5. The History Of White-Power Music Outside Europe 104
  9. 6. Conclusion 145
  10. Notes 151
  11. Select Bibliography 183
  12. Select Recordings Cited 185
  13. Index 189
  14. About The Author 199
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Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter i
  2. Contents vii
  3. Acknowledgments ix
  4. 1. What Is White-Power Music? 1
  5. 2. The History Of White-Power Music In Britain 13
  6. 3. The History Of White-Power Music In Continental Western Europe 34
  7. 4. The History Of White-Power Music In Eastern Europe 76
  8. 5. The History Of White-Power Music Outside Europe 104
  9. 6. Conclusion 145
  10. Notes 151
  11. Select Bibliography 183
  12. Select Recordings Cited 185
  13. Index 189
  14. About The Author 199
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