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Right-Wing Rock or Just Rock? A Computational Linguistic Analysis of Frei.Wild — arXiv:2609.39460

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@misc{dce252ecd070cc,
  title = {Right-Wing Rock or Just Rock? A Computational Linguistic Analysis of Frei.Wild — arXiv:2609.39460},
  howpublished = {arXiv (en)},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.39460},
  note = {License CC0-1.0; archived copy https://metraipolis.com/documento/dc_e252ecd070cc; sha256 a83581ac1fd17fbda0a31ed44d2dd7c34f4140f0abe2376784b2bb32c099407a},
  year = {2026}
}

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Rechtsrock is a subgenre of rock music that spreads right-wing ideology, often instrumentalized to recruit adolescents into the radical scene. Monitoring institutions counteract this by manually examining and, in some cases, banning extremist content; however, there are border cases that evade regulation. We present a study aimed at determining whether such a case, the band Frei$.$Wild, should be classified as politically right-leaning or as part of the general German rock genre. We sampled a German rock dataset and created a corpus for right-wing rock to use as reference in this analysis and found that we can confirm the intuitions from previous investigations that Frei$.$Wild successfully maintains an ambiguity with regard to their political affiliation. However, the tendency is towards the right-wing spectrum. Lexical analyses reveal nationalistic narratives and two high-performing classifiers (up to 97% ROC-AUC score) label more than half of their songs as right-wing extremist. Our analysis provides insight into how computational methods can improve the process of identifying right-wing extremist tendencies in music, especially in borderline cases like Frei$.$Wild. The code and data are made available for future research.

Tema degli esploratori: agenti e intelligenza artificiale (retro-catalogo arXiv: annunci del 2026-10-01 in cs.CL).
Categorie arXiv: Computation and Language (cs.CL).
Pagina del lavoro: https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.39460 — autori e testo completo sono lì (qui omessi i nomi: nessun dato personale nel deposito).
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