Are You Into the “White Power Music Scene”?

Presidential advisor Steve Bannon said yesterday in the New York Times, “The elite media got it dead wrong, 100 percent dead wrong.” Bannon is on to something. Mainstream America doesn’t fully understand the wellsprings of hate and racial supremacy that helped Trump win.

My study on white identity groups in American workplaces has me learning the types of things that mainstream media doesn’t cover.

Here’s an example: There is a “White People Music (WPM) Scene.” It has been studied and reported in Robert Futrell, et al., “Understanding Music in Movements: The White Power Music Scene,” Sociological Quarterly (Vol 47), pp. 275-304 (2016).

Summarizing: The study analyzes how the Aryan music scene fosters a sense of purpose and belonging to people who practice racial exclusion. This study shows how participants develop strong feelings of dignity, pride, pleasure, love, kinship, and fellowship through WPM music events. WPM draws participants from the KKK, Christian Identity sects, neo-Nazis, and Aryan skinheads.

Now quoting:

Aryan music is one of the most pervasive means of racist expression among both veteran and newly recruited WPM activists across all branches. Many WPM gatherings include Aryan music produced by more than 100 U.S. white power bands and more than 200 bands in 22 countries.

Two of the most notorious white power organizations—The National Alliance and Hammerskin Nation—are closely tied to the two most prominent white power recording companies, Resistance Records and Free Your Mind Productions (formerly Panzerfaust Records). Their expressed goal is to create alternatives to mainstream music genres by producing music that articulates Aryan ideals and is linked to occasions and experiences in which the WPM is promoted.

There are many styles of white power music: rock, heavy metal, and country and western are the most common, but techno and Aryan folk genres are also emerging. While each genre claims specific stylistic distinctions, the lyrical themes in each reflect the fundamental doctrines common to most movement groups: Aryan nationalism, white power, race war, anti-Semitism, anti-immigration, anti-race-mixing, and white victimization. Examples of doctrinaire song titles and lyrics by two of the most popular white power bands include: Race and Nation by Skrewdriver  ….

(Lyrics)… I believe in the White race, A race apart, We've got a mile start, I believe in my country, It's where I belong, It's where I'll stay.
Chorus: For my race and nation, Race and nation, Race and nation, Race and nation. Hate Train Rolling by Bound for Glory, Bound for Glory. Hate Train Rolling.

Chorus: Hate Train Rolling on the rails of an insane world, Hate Train Rolling a non-stop collision undeterred, Hate Train Rolling leaving wreckage in our path, We're Bound for Glory, Hate Train Rolling, Built to forever last.