Nazi punk

Nazi punk
Other names	Hatecore
Stylistic origins	Hardcore punk punk rock Oi! white power music
Cultural origins	1970s, United Kingdom
Subgenres
Rock Against Communism
Other topics
Neo-Nazism white power skinhead National Socialist black metal

A Nazi punk is a neo-Nazi who is part of the punk subculture. The term also describes the related music genre,^[1] which is sometimes also referred to as hatecore. Nazi Punk music generally sounds like other forms of punk rock, but differs by having lyrics that express hatred of some ethnic minorities, Jews, communists, homosexuals, anarchists, and other perceived enemies. Most other punks reject Nazi punks.

It is a subgenre of punk that contrasts sharply with the anti-authoritarian and frequently leftist ideas prevalent in much of the punk subculture.

In 1978 in Britain, the white nationalist 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

1. Wallace, Amy. The Official Punk Rock Book of Lists. Backbeat Books, 2007. p. 186
2. Reynolds, Simon. Rip It Up and Start Again: Postpunk 1978-1984. Penguin (Non-Classics), 2006. p. 65
3. Reynolds, Simon, Rip It Up and Start Again: Postpunk 1978-1984 (Penguin (Non-Classics), 2006), p. 65
4. Sabin, Roger, Punk Rock: So What?: The Cultural Legacy of Punk. (Routledge, 1999), pp. 207-208.
5. "The Straps: History"
6. Andersen, Mark. Dance of Days: Two Decades of Punk in the Nation's Capital. Akashic Books, 2003. p. 159
7. 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