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Black Metal: Conservative Revolution in Modern Popular Culture, Part 3
Black Metal and the Return of Völkisch Thought How did völkisch ideas resurface in popular culture? By the 1960s Christianity had entered a phase of decline in the West, following a long period of growing skepticism as well as hostility from political ideologies from both Right and Left. As has been the pattern in the West since the fourth century,[1] the decline of the dominant...
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Black Metal: Conservative Revolution in Modern Popular Culture, Part 2
Völkisch Thought and the Conservative RevolutionSome of the most fascinating aspects of Black Metal are its parallels with the ideas and sensibilities of the Conservative Revolution and the wider völkisch (populist) movement that swept Germany in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. These similarities are so striking that Black Metal may well be considered, if not the...
Read MoreThe Teenage Rebellion
Before the 1950s no one had heard of, let alone experienced, the Teenage Rebellion. The word “teenager” came to prominence around 1955 with the emergence of an Integrated Doo Wop (rhythm and blues) group called The Teenagers (later changed to Frankie Lymon & the Teenagers). The group consisted of two blacks, two Hispanics, and one white, with Negro Frankie...
Read MoreTraditionalism, Youth Music Subcultures, & White Nationalist Metapolitics
In his new article, “Apoliteic music: Neo-Folk, Martial Industrial and ‘metapolitical fascism’” (Patterns of Prejudice 43, no. 5, December 2009, pp. 431-57), Anton Shekhovtsov suggests that there are two types of radical right-wing music that are cultural reflections of the two different political strategies that fascism was forced to adopt in the...
Read MoreHeavy Metal, European Culture, & the Alternative Right
Taki’s Magazine has been running some interesting articles on the connections between Heavy Metal music, European culture, and the alternative right.The discussion began with Alex Kurtagic’s “White Noise” (October 19, 2009), which we have already linked on this site.Followups include:R. J. Stove, “That’s Professor Ozzy Osbourne to You!”...
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White Noise
From Taki’s Magazine, October 19, 2009I was once asked to imagine what the world would look like today had North American settlers snubbed the African slave traders in the 18th and 19th centuries. We can let our imaginations run wild with speculation, but one thing is certain: had the slave markets in Africa been starved of custom, our Pop music charts would look nothing like...
Read MoreResurrecting Woodstock?
From The Occidental Observer, September 10, 2009Sex, drugs and rock ‘n’ roll. A time-proven recipe for poor choices. Forty years ago this summer a group of young promoters organized what is regarded as a milestone in popular music history. The result was a celebration of free love and tuning out.The Woodstock Music Festival’s original producer Michael Lang had planned...
Read MoreThe Mysterious German Professor
From The Occidental Observer, September 3, 2009The Atlantic Recording Company’s history strangely parallels the Jewish-American elite’s cultural revolution after World War II. This elite promoted Frankfurt School teaching in a effort to weaken the middle classes — their political nemesis. Atlantic Records prides itself on plugging the same socially destructive...
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Celebrating the Socially Destructive Force of Music
The Frankfurt School was a group of predominantly Jewish intellectuals associated with the Institute for Social Research. It originated during the Weimar period in Germany, and became a bastion of the cultural left. With the rise of National Socialism, the Frankfurt School was closed by the German government, and many of its members emigrated to America.Theodor Adorno was the...
Read MoreOliver Pendleton in Czech
Oliver Pendleton’s TOQ Online review essay “Volk Music” on Laibach’s Volk and Kunst der Fuge has been translated into Czech. Also, his review essay on Boyd Rice’s Standing in Two Circles, “Uneasy Listening” seems to have been heavily mined for another piece on the same site. Thank you to our Czech readers, and congratulations Dr....
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