White Power Subculture

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This article explores the right-wing sect of the skinhead sub-culture the side that believes in “White Power. The “white power” music thrived significantly in the 1990s. The music was used for three specific roles first, to recruit new members, mostly youth, who the music’s biggest audience was, secondly cultivate the “white power” identity and lastly, to obtain financial resources. The whites of this sect of the sub-culture viewed themselves as a minority group in the middle of an over populated multicultural region (North America/ Western Europe). Feelings of the whites are expressed throughout this “white power” music so it’s used as a political tool to help aid in the group’s quest to move forward and gain more power. Music was not used

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