ABSTRACT
I am presently part of a team researching the mobilizing influence of media—print, music, and video—in the context of terrorism, with a specific focus on Salafi jihadism. Our project brings together scholars from a variety of fields, including political science, communications, musicology, among others, and we are funded by a grant from the U.S. Department of Defense’s Minerva Initiative (Principal Investigator: Anthony Lemieux, Georgia State University). My involvement with this research group comes as an extension of my recent book on radicalism and music in which I examine the musical cultures of al-Qa’ida, the American racist skinheads, Christian-affiliated radicals, and eco-animal right militancy (Pieslak 2015).
