The ‘Archeology’ of Violence in Popular Culture

The article explores various examples of the presence of the post-romantic tradition in songs recorded by Polish neo-nationalists and distributed through YouTube. The analysis of these songs serves to reconstruct some ‘sensibility’ of the post-romantic tradition that have been appropriated and thus ‘stolen’ by neo-nationalists, serving as the content of messages based on violent and populist discourse. The main hypothesis is that the images of social catastrophe and the imaginary belief in the exceptional role of the Polish nation, which for nationalists is identified only with people who adhere to their values, have their origin in the Romantic tradition, which is treated instrumentally. Quantitative and qualitative research was conducted to confirm this hypothesis

Media studies · Nationalism · Political science · Populism · Sociology · Anthropology · Law · Populism, Right-Wing Movements