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In September of 2010- the Daily Mail Reporter announced Anti-immigration party formed from skinhead movement seizes balance of power in Sweden. A politics of skinhead protest- expressed through White Power Music and an explicitly nationalistic subgenre known as Viking Rock- has relied on its music to voice opposition to immigration and multiculturism. Often labeled neo-Nazis or right-wing extremists- these actors shook political establishments throughout Sweden- Denmark- and Norway during the 1980s and 1990s by rallying around white power music and skinhead subculture. More recently- however- these groups methodically revised their presentation in an effort to refashion themselves as upstanding- intelligent champions of love and human diversity- and once again using music to do so. In Lions of the North: Sounds of the New Nordic Radical Nationalism- author Benjamin Teitelbaum explores this transformation of anti-immigrant- anti-liberal activism in the Nordic countries as it manifests in thought and sound. As his fieldwork in Sweden overlapped with Anders Behring Breiviks attacks in 2011- Teitelbaum observed the radical nationalist movement at a particularly sensitive moment.Offering a rare ethnographic glimpse into controversial and secretive political movements- Lions of the North investigates changes in the music nationalists make and patronize- reading their surprising new music styles as attempts to escape stereotypes and fashion a new image for themselves. Teitelbaums work reveals organized opposition to immigration and multiculturalism in Scandinavia to be a ...