RT Article
T1 The origins of white power music: the co-opting of punk and Oi! by a parasitical social movement
JF Deviant behavior
VO 46
IS 10
SP 1329
OP 1345
A1 Windle, James
A1 Schenk, Clara
A2 Schenk, Clara
LA English
YR 2025
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1938097696
AB This paper challenges the common portrayal of White Power music as evolving from, or being an element of, Oi! punk. The paper traces the histories of White Power music and Oi!, and analyses a sample of 268 Oi! songs for racist or fascist lyrics. It shows that, while some Oi! artists and audience members were involved in far-right activism, the subculture was not itself fascist or overtly racist. Many of those involved in Oi! took action against racism and far-right movements, and almost no songs included racist lyrics. The paper proposes two arguments. First, drawing from Worley, media and scholarly portrayals of Oi! as racist or fascist may represent the demonization of the working-class. Second, that White Power co-opted elements of Oi! does not mean that White Power music emerged from Oi!. Rather it likely emerged from first-wave punk at roughly the same time as Oi!. The central argument being that the White Power music scene, and the far-right more generally, is parasitical. It feeds upon the resources of larger scenes and subcultures, often harming them in the process.
NO Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 1343-1345
K1 Musik
K1 Politische Gewalt
K1 Historische Entwicklung
K1 Kriminologie
K1 Empirische Forschung
DO 10.1080/01639625.2024.2380738