Discourses of unity and purpose in the sounds of fascist music: a multimodal approach

摘要: This article, taking a social semiotic approach, analyses two pieces of music written, shared and exalted by pre-1945 European fascist movements – the German NSDAP British Union Fascists. These movements, both political cultural, employed mythologies unity, common identity purpose in order to elide realities distinction political–economic inequalities between bourgeois proletarian groups capitalist societies. Visually (through art, sculpture, architecture, aesthetics dress, uniform gesture) inter-personally marches, parades rallies), cultural project communicated machine-like certainty about vision for new society based on discipline, conformity might nation. In this we are interested ways that these very same discourses also through sound songs: The Horst Wessel Lied BUF marching song, songs used melody. We an...