Nazi punk
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| Nazi punk | |
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| Other names | Hatecore |
| Stylistic origins | |
| Cultural origins | 1970s, United Kingdom |
| Subgenres | |
| Rock Against Communism | |
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A Nazi punk is a
communists, homosexuals, anarchists
, and other perceived enemies.
It is a subgenre of punk that contrasts sharply with the
leftist
ideas prevalent in much of the punk subculture.
In 1978 in Britain, the
National Front had a punk-oriented youth organization called the Punk Front.[2] Although the Punk Front only lasted one year, it recruited several English punks, as well as forming a number of white power punk bands such as Dentists, The Ventz, Tragic Minds, and White Boss.[3][4] In the early 1980s, the white power skinhead band Brutal Attack temporarily transformed into a Nazi punk band.[5]
The Nazi Punk subculture appeared in the United States by the early 1980s in the hardcore punk scene.[6][7]
See also
- List of neo-Nazi bands
- National Socialist black metal
- Nazi chic
- Nipster
- Punk ideologies
- Rock Against Communism
- White nationalism
- "Nazi Punks Fuck Off" – a song by the band Dead Kennedys
Footnotes
- ^ Wallace, Amy. The Official Punk Rock Book of Lists. Backbeat Books, 2007. p. 186
- ^ Reynolds, Simon. Rip It Up and Start Again: Postpunk 1978-1984. Penguin (Non-Classics), 2006. p. 65
- ^ Reynolds, Simon, Rip It Up and Start Again: Postpunk 1978-1984 (Penguin (Non-Classics), 2006), p. 65
- ^ Sabin, Roger, Punk Rock: So What?: The Cultural Legacy of Punk. (Routledge, 1999), pp. 207-208.
- ^ "The Straps: History"
- ^ Andersen, Mark. Dance of Days: Two Decades of Punk in the Nation's Capital. Akashic Books, 2003. p. 159
- ^ Flynn, Michael. Globalizing the Streets. Columbia University Press, 2008. p. 191
Bibliography
- Blush, Steven, American Hardcore: A Tribal History
- Condemned Magazine issue #2.
- Morrison, Eddy, Memoirs of a Street Soldier: A Life in White Nationalism
- National Front, The Punk Front: 1978–79
- Reynolds, Simon, Rip It Up and Start Again: Postpunk 1978–1984
- Sabin, Roger, Punk Rock: So What?
External links
- National Socialist Punk – Nazi punk history, ideology and music