White Noise (book)

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White Noise with the subtitle Right-Rock, Skinhead Music, Blood & Honor - Insights into the International Neo-Nazi Music Scene is a non-fiction book about the right-wing extremist music scene . The volume was first published in English in 1998 under the title White Noise: Inside the International Nazi Skinhead Scene and is a joint project of Searchlight , the Antifascist Info Sheet and Enough is Enough . The German version, which was supplemented by two essays and a foreword, was published in 2000 in the edition series antifascist texts (rat) of the Unrast Verlag . The second edition appeared in the same year, a revised new edition followed in 2001.

content

The individual contributions deal with the international right-wing rock movement and attempt to provide a comprehensive overview of the music scene in individual countries and their international interdependencies. The focus will be on Great Britain, Germany, Sweden, Poland and the United States.

White Noise originally appeared in English-speaking countries in 1998 under the subtitle Inside the International Nazi Skinhead Scene . It was a 96-page paperback with a foreword by Glyn Ford and contributions on the right-wing extremist music scene in Great Britain by Steve Silver and Nick Lowles, in the United States by Leonard Zeskind, Sweden by Stieg Larsson and Rafal Pankowski on neo-Nazi music in Poland. The German edition was supplemented by articles by Michael Weiss on right-wing rock in Germany and Stefan Jacoby on neo-Nazis on the Internet and a foreword. These cannot be found in the international version. In addition, the German edition dispensed with the labeling as Nazi in the translations of the English-language articles and changed this term to Neo-Nazi .

In 2004, an expanded edition was published that included an additional article on the Blood and Honor movement after it was banned in Germany in 2000. The article explains that, contrary to the statements of the federal government , the organization is still active. The older articles, however, have hardly been updated.

background

The term "White Noise" refers to an English neo-Nazi music magazine that was created in 1986 around the National Front . This was the predecessor publication of Blood and Honor magazine .

The publication met with resistance from the music scene mentioned before it was published. Ulrich Großmann, operator of the Coburg-based mail order company and label Dim Records , tried to prevent the book from being delivered by means of an injunction . The background was that Dim Records was assumed in the book to be close to the Blood and Honor network. The judges of the Münster Regional Court rejected the order, however, because at the time Großmann had posters of the Blood and Honor founder Ian Stuart Donaldson ( Skrewdriver ) on offer and had to admit that 3.5% of his total sales were with products from the Blood- and honor environment. Großmann was represented by the scene lawyer Klaus Kunze .

reception

In German-speaking countries, this publication offered the first comprehensive insight into the right-wing rock scene , skinhead music and the neo-Nazi music network Blood & Honor . The Neue Zürcher Zeitung described the publication as a “step in the right direction” in dealing with the right-wing extremist music scene. After the publication of the publication, the Federal Criminal Police Office and the constitution protection authorities became aware of the structures of the right-wing extremist music scene. Numerous bans on relevant bands and networks were the result. The book received positive reviews in the Testcard anthology . Martin Büsser subsumes as follows:

“The collection of articles is one of the most useful in the German language to date, because it gives an international overview of the interdependence of right-wing radical music. […] The book is rarely full of facts, which leads to a rather dry, but appropriate language. His accumulation of information is enormous and perhaps it is also part of his merit not to have unnecessary documentation (e.g. printing of neo-Nazi texts). The only point of criticism: Here, too, the focus is once again limited to skinheads, 'White Noise' and 'Blood and Honor' [...]. "

- Martin Büsser : Review in Testcard

The publication was linked to educational lectures and seminars were offered, mainly by the argumente.netzwerk antirassistischer bildung eV . were organized. In 2002, this educational work resulted in further publications, such as an overview of right-wing extremist organizations, especially in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania.

White Noise is now regarded as the standard work in dealing with the right-wing extremist music scene, but was last reissued in 2004. Even in this revised edition, the texts have not been adapted, so that most of the statements correspond to the state of research from 1998. The book is cited in a variety of publications dealing with the right-wing rock scene.

Publications

  • Nick Lowles / Steve Silver: White Noise: Inside the International Nazi Skinhead Scene . Searchlight Magazine 1998. ISBN 978-0-95220-383-4
  • Searchlight, Antifaschistisches Infoblatt, Enough is Enough, rat (Ed.): White Noise. Right-wing rock, skinhead music, blood & honor - insights into the international neo-Nazi music scene . series of anti-fascist texts (council) / Unrast Verlag, Hamburg / Münster 2000, ISBN 978-3-89771-803-6

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Michael Klarmann: Right-wing extremist continuity. Telepolis ( heise.de ), July 17, 2001, accessed on March 3, 2017 .
  2. ↑ Preface for the German edition White Noise - Rechts-Rock, Skinhead-Musik, Blood & Honor - Insights into the international neo-Nazi music scene (Searchlight / Antifaschistisches Infoblatt / Enough is Enough / rat (ed.)) / Unrast-Verlag , Kathrin Klever: International cooperation. The apabiz and initiatives from different countries agree close cooperation in an international network. In: monitor circular des apabiz ev No. 15, May 2004 p. 6. (PDF; 178 kB)
  3. ↑ White Noise - New edition of White Noise contradicts Federal Government . In: Antifascist information sheet . No. 53 (2/2001) , September 4, 2001 ( antifainfoblatt.de ).
  4. ↑ Review of the Düsseldorfer Stadtzeitung terz Everything in its time: Gender - gender relations in pop
  5. ↑ White Noise - Insight into the international neo-Nazi music scene . In: The goods . S. 26–27 ( http://www.dieware.de/3/dieware3_27.pdf ( Memento from July 14, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) [accessed on October 28, 2017]).
  6. ↑ Right-wing rock, skinhead music and Blood & Honor: White Noise: Hate becomes serious. Untergrund-blättle.ch, May 15, 2009, accessed on March 3, 2017 .
  7. ^ For a review by Stephan Hentz, see Perlentaucher, August 24, 2000, [1] .
  8. ^ Federal Criminal Police Office (ed.): Right-wing extremism, anti-Semitism and xenophobia. Inventory - perspectives - problem solving. Lectures on the occasion of the autumn conference of the Federal Criminal Police Office from November 21 to 23, 2000. Volume 7, self-published in collaboration with Luchterhand Verlag 2001. pp. 133–202 as PDF
  9. ↑ Martin Büsser: Book reviews . In: testcard . 9 (November 2000). Ventil Verlag, Mainz, ISBN 3-931555-08-9 , p. 257 .
  10. ↑ argumente.netzwerk antirassistischer bildung eV: Foreword to in Mitte… (PDF; 1.6 MB) ( Memento of the original from September 28, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.argumente-netzwerk.de