Effect of right-wing rock overrated
According to musicologist Thorsten Hindrichs from Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU), the importance of right-wing rock as a lure for young people to join the right-wing scene is overestimated.
The music expert speaks out against calling right-wing rock a gateway drug and warns against alarmism and scaremongering. According to Hindrichs, the myth of the gateway drug is based on an early romantic idea about the power of music. At the same time, he points out that music is definitely important for the extreme right - as a source of money, for forming networks, for marking enemies and for self-assurance.
Music hardly plays a role in the recruitment of young people for the extreme right-wing scene, but without music, extreme right-wing young people would of course be missing something crucial, Hindrichs summarizes. The symposium "Right-wing music in right-wing environments" is taking place today in Koblenz.
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