What influence does music have on how young people develop their own political opinions? What influence do extreme-right musicians and bands have on different music scenes and youth cultures? Why is it well-received in some genres, but not in others? These are some of the questions we will try to answer in our fifth dossier.

The articles in this issue investigate extreme-right tendencies and their dissemination in different music scenes, examining two musical genres in particular, namely hip-hop and dark wave. We also want to point to where the causes of and reasons for the infiltration of different music subcultures may lie, and how the right’s success can be explained.

More importantly, though, is the introduction of initiatives and projects that counter this extreme-right trend, and possibilities for reproducing and integrating them. We’ll present initiatives and projects from different music scenes that want to make their own genre (e.g. hardcore, gothic or hip-hop) more resistant to nationalistic and racist ideology and infiltration.