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Trendy Fascism: White Power Music and the Future of Democracy. By Nancy S. Love. Albany, NY: State University of New York, 2016.
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 11 December 2018
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1 Foremost in any exploration of this subject is the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), founded in 1971 by attorneys Morris Dees and Joe Levin along with civil rights activist Julian Bond. The SPLC provides legal defense resources, publishes research on civil rights advocacy and watchdog reports, all to “ensure that the promise of the civil rights movement become a reality for all.” https://www.splcenter.org.
2 Love's book is one of two monographs published within this past year on the subject of white power music within the past year, along with Teitelbaum's, Benjamin Lions of the North: Sounds of the New Nordic Radical Nationalism (New York: Oxford University Press, Feb. 2017)CrossRefGoogle Scholar. White Power Music: Scenes of Extreme Right Cultural Resistance, eds. Shekhostov and Jackson (Ilford, UK: Searchlight and RNM Publications, 2012) focuses on case studies across Europe. See also: Bryce Peake, “Listening Like White Nationalists at a Civil Rights Rally,” Journal of Sonic Studies 14 (2017), https://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/375960/375961; Corte, Ugo, “White Power Music and the Mobilization of Racist Social Movements,” Music and Arts in Action 1, no. 1 (2008)Google Scholar, http://www.musicandartsinaction.net/index.php/maia/article/view/whitepowermusic; Futrell, Robert, Simi, Pete, and Gottschalk, Simon, “Understanding Music in Movements: The White Power Music Scene,” Sociological Quarterly 47, no. 2 (May 2006): 275–304CrossRefGoogle Scholar.