Social Network Analysis as Approach to Music Zine Analysis: Reconstruction of the Interconnection of the Czech and International White Power Music Scenes in the 1990s
Abstract
Social Network Analysis is one of the most dynamic developing approaches in contemporary social science. What type of relational data could be found in music fanzines? And how can be these data utilized to explore subcultural scenes or social movements? In the opening part of the paper, Vendula Prokůpková presents examples, what kind of relational data can be found in 1990s skinhead fanzines and how can be these data used to explore the structures of the extreme right.
In the second part of the paper, she experimentally reconstructs the interconnection between Czech and international White Power music scenes based on data abstracted from concert reports published in 1990s Czech and German extreme right fanzines. In a final part of the paper, the author presents how the centrality algorithms can be utilized to explore the role of the individual Czech White Power music bands in international White Power music scene and what are the possible pitfalls of interpretation of these results.