White power music’s appeal varies with each nation’s political self-image.

Evidence

In the United States, Resistance Records have been successful in constructing a well-packaged and alluring form of media-generated racist rebellion. This music has garnered an international market and its appeal in different national contexts is varied and driven by contrasting social forces. In Britain, white power music may be an appeal to a racist notion of proletarian authenticity; in America it might be invoked by middle-class kids to shock their parents’ pretensions to liberal multiculturalism; while in Sweden it may be used by rebellious young people to goad the nation’s Liberal Democratic self-image. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 2553

Categorization

• XREF: Complements the point that ideologies are re-territorialized across national contexts — echoes Anderson on imagined communities and the local deployment of global symbols.