White power music
music promoting white supremacy
White power music, also called white noise music, white nationalist music, or hate music, is music that promotes overt white supremacy. It encompasses various music styles, including rock, country, and folk, and has various subgeneres, including Nazi punk, hatecore, Rock Against Communism, National Socialist black metal, and fashwave.
Early white power bands appeared in the 1960s, with segregationist music, or country acts that employed racist and pro Ku Klux Klan themes. The most popular of these was the American country musician Johnny Rebel. Influenced by the white power country acts, Ian Stuart Donaldson and his band Skrewdriver were the first major white power rock band; they allied themselves with the fascist National Front. Skrewdriver's popularity spread white power music.
White power music has been used as a recruiting and fundraising tool for white supremacist movements, and is frequently banned from streaming platforms and from distribution in some countries.
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White power music is music that promotes overt white supremacy. Scholars have used a variety of names in referring to it. It is also called white noise music, white racial extremist music, or hate music.
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