“One Day You Will Wish We’d Only Played Music”

This chapter outlines a (very short) history of Rechtsrock by shedding light on some principal performers – within different musical genres – as well as on their national and international networks. It discusses core aspects of RechtsRock's general functions, before finally looking at the series of big RechtsRock festivals that have taken place in Germany since 2017 that will give a vivid and frightening example of German right-wing extremists' practices of doing RechtsRock. The failure of Ragnarock clarifies that the early days of RechtsRock must be understood in light of a continuous interplay of different right-wing youth cultures and rather traditionalist right-wing party politics, with the latter constantly oscillating between appropriation and defense. Like any popular music RechtsRock is “done” in two different fields of action: live concerts and recordings. Although both share similar functions as framing devices, drawing this distinction is essential because of their different modes of handling “music as doing” by means of participation.