Dissertation
Race and Nation in White-Power Music
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Washington State University
01/2012
Handle:
https://hdl.handle.net/2376/4675
Abstract
This dissertation examines the themes of race and nation in the 30-year-old genre of white-power music. Specifically, it explores how white-power musicians construct `in' and `out' groups of `friend' and `foe.' It does so by analyzing how white-power songs employ anti-Semitic conspiracy theory, an anti-media rhetoric that ignores white-power music's place in the world of media and communications, anti-government conspiracies that blame a supposed Jewish takeover for all of the social problems in contemporary western societies, `natural' and `historical' discourse about the character of whiteness itself, and shifting white-power claims to physical territory and nationhood. Ultimately, the aim of this dissertation is to argue that white-power musicians' ideas about race and nation continue to attract fans and followers from across the western world not because they are `fringe' or `extremist' philosophies, but rather because they reflect white-supremacist currents in mainstream thought that stem from a 400-year history of western colonialism and racial exploitation.
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Details
- Title
- Race and Nation in White-Power Music
- Creators
- Kirsten Andrea Dyck
- Contributors
- C. R. King (Advisor)David J. Leonard (Committee Member)John Streamas (Committee Member)
- Awarding Institution
- Washington State University
- Academic Unit
- Languages, Cultures, and Race, School of
- Theses and Dissertations
- Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Washington State University
- Number of pages
- 263
- Identifiers
- 99900581451101842
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Dissertation