Music and Antifascism Cultures of Resistance in Europe and North America

Introduction

Ondřej Daniel, Allyson Rogers, James K. Wright

PART ONE: CONFRONTING THE FAR-RIGHT

1. “Fascism, Antifascism, and Contested Ambiguities in Extreme Metal: The Steelfest 2022 Controversy”
Owen Coggins

2. “‘I Really Really Wannabe a Dictator’: A Music Mash-up’s Opposition to Trump’s Second Term”
Lyndon Way

3. “Czech Postsocialist Antifascism: A Battle for the Soul of Music Subcultures”
Ondřej Daniel

PART TWO: COLLECTIVE ORGANIZATION AND RESISTANCE

4. “Antifascist Singing in Interwar England: Alan Bush, the Workers’ Music Association, and Handel’s Belshazzar”
Stewart Duncan 

5. “Punk Rock, Political Education, and Anti-fascism in 1970s Great Britain”
Justin Paulson

6. “Bicommunal Struggle in Europe’s Last Divided Capital: Antifascist Festivals as Models of Autonomous Self-Organization and Resistance”
Rebecca Pericleous

PART THREE: SONGS OF RESISTANCE

7. “Partisan Music in Contemporary European Youth Cultures: The Popularization, Contestation, and Persistence of ‘Bella Ciao'”
Katharina Alexi

8. “‘Our Father is Bandera’: Fascism, Antifascism, and Memorialization in Ukrainian Resistance Songs”
James Wright

9. “Antifascism, Rhetorical Framing, and Public Pedagogy in the Mid-Century American Folk Music of Woody Guthrie”
Harley Ferris

10. “‘Quake, Fascists! The Pir Sultans Are Coming’: Early Modern Alevi Song as Antifascist Poetics”
Peter McMurray

11. “Antifascist Music in Detention: Songs of the French Resistance in Nazi Camps and Prisons”
Marie-Hélène Benoit-Otis

PART FOUR: AESTHETICS AND ANTIFASCISM

12. “Third Reich 'n Roll: Popular Music and the Performative Antifascism of The Residents”
Marcel Bouvrie

13. “A Sound Cartography of Antifascist Resistance of the Twentieth Century: Exploring Luigi Nono’s Für Paul Dessau”
Luis Velasco-Pufleau

14. “The Songs of Accidente: Navigating the Multiple Meanings of Antifascist Punk in Spain after the 2010s”
Natàlia Cantó-Milà and Selin Yagci

PART FIVE: THE POLITICS OF PERFORMANCE 

15. “Opera as Antifascism in Postwar Hungary”
Zachary Milliman

16. “(Not) the Enemy’s Music: Politics, Media, and the Reception of German Orchestral Music in the U.S., 1917-1945”
Gabryel Smith

17. “Austrian Musical Antifascism in Exile, or Vienna on the Thames”
James Deaville

18. “‘Two Hours Alive on a Dead TV’: Music, Protest, and the Public Broadcaster during the Last Years of the Portuguese Estado Novo Dictatorship”
Sofia Vieira Lopes

Biography

Ondřej Daniel is a co-founder of Prague-based Centre for the Study of Popular Culture (cspk.eu) and works as a historian in the Department of History of Charles University’s Faculty of Arts, Czechia.

Allyson Rogers is a SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow in the School for Studies in Art and Culture at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada.

James K. Wright is a Full Professor of Music in both the School for Studies in Art and Culture and The College of the Humanities at Carleton University, in Ottawa, Canada.