Tis with the Chalice that We'll Defend Our Country against the Cross..." Analysing and Comparing the Contents of the Neo-Nazi Fanzine Skinformátor and the Utraquist Zine Kalich * Jan CharvátI n recent years, the issues of the (not only) the subcultural far-right have become an essential focus of both Czech sociology and political science. After many years of dominance of the perspective of extremism theory, 1 several works with a different orientation have recently appeared, whether based in sociology 2 or history 3 or taking an interdisciplinary approach. 4 At the same time, there * This paper was supported by the Progress research program of Charles University Q18 -Social sciences: from multidisciplinarity to interdisciplinarity.

This review article elucidates and systematises existing research and theories of the de/politicisation of youth music subcultures. It examines the political dimension within the interdisciplinary field of youth-subcultural studies in two main steps. First, it identifies and discusses five key dimensions of researching politicisation: politicisation through style and how style is read and through repressive power, the politicisation of everyday life and internal dynamics, and politicisation in the direction of organised activity. Second, these dimensions are presented and compared in a summarising table from two main perspectives: according to the research focus and according to the dynamics of de/politicisation being observed. The article also briefly outlines several possible directions of future research on the politicisation of youth music subcultures.

The article focuses on the interaction between subcultural styles and political radicalism in Czechia after 1989. Using two case studies, from the anarcho-autonomist milieu and the extra-parliamentary extreme right, it looks at the relation of the radical political movement with youth musical subcultures (in the case of the extreme right, the skinhead subculture, in the case of the anarchists, above all punk and freetekno). In both milieus it identifies four key moments: 1) the important role played by subcultures in the rise of a political environment, 2) attempts to reflect the subculture as limiting, and to leave its limits behind, 3) the transmutation of subcultural styles and 4) ensuing hybridisation. We show that attempts to leave behind the subcultural environment were not successful, but that interconnection in the subculture environment led to tension, movements of crisis and differentiation between the various scenes.

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