Anthems and the Making of Nation States
Title | Anthems and the Making of Nation States PDF eBook |
Author | Aleksandar Pavkovic |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | 272 |
Release | 2015-10-28 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 0857739697 |
Anthems are symbolic means through which nations present themselves to the world. Accordingly, creating seven new nation states out of the bones of Yugoslavia required new anthems. Why did these new states opt for century-old national songs or, failing this, for the anthems without words? What are the images and symbols that each of these states chose as their 'national signatures' and how were these chosen? This book explores a variety of images of nationhood (or the absence of them) in the lyrics of the official anthems and of competing national songs and traces their historical trajectory from the time of their conception to their legal entrenchment. This is the first full-length study into the symbolic representations of nationhood in the recently created nation states of the Balkans."
Anthems and the Making of Nation States
Title | Anthems and the Making of Nation States PDF eBook |
Author | Aleksandar Pavković |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 0 |
Release | 2016 |
Genre | National characteristics, Balkan |
ISBN | 9780755619443 |
'Live, live the spirit of the Slavs' (1834) : 'Hey Slavs' from 1942 to 2006 -- Loving one's homeland : Croatia 1835 -- A toast to a cosmopolitan nation : Slovenia 1844 -- Praying for one's people : Serbia 1872 -- A love of mountains and mothers : Montenegro 1836(?) -- A fight for rights : Macedonia 1941 -- To sing or not to sing? Anthems and anti-anthems : Bosnia and Herzegovina 1995/99 -- Wishing to be one with Europe : Kosobo 2008 -- Epilogue : what do these anthems tell us?.
Poems of Nation, Anthems of Empire
Title | Poems of Nation, Anthems of Empire PDF eBook |
Author | Suvir Kaul |
Publisher | University of Virginia Press |
Total Pages | 358 |
Release | 2000 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780813919683 |
In Poems of Nation, Anthems of Empire, Suvir Kaul argues that the aggressive nationalism of James Thomson's ode "Rule, Britannia " (1740) is the condition to which much English poetry of the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries aspires. Poets as varied as Marvell, Waller and Dryden, Defoe, Addison, John Dyer and Edward Young, or Goldsmith, Cowper, Hannah More and Anna Laetitia Barbauld, all wrote poems deeply engaged with the British-nation-in-the-making. These poets, and many others like them, recognized that the nation and its values and institutions were being defined by the expansion of overseas trade, naval and military control, plantations and colonies. Their poems both embodied, and were concerned about, the culture and ideology of "Great Britain" (itself an idea of the nation that developed alongside the formation of a British Empire). Poems in this period thus flaunt various images of poetic inspiration that show poetry and culture following triumphantly where mercantile and military ships sail. Or sometimes, more self-aggrandizingly for the poet, they enact the process by which the Muses use their powers to inspire and show the way. Even at their most hesitant, these poems were written as interventions into public discussion; their creativity is tied up with that desire to convince and persuade. Finally, as Kaul writes, it is their encyclopedic desire to incorporate new experiences, visions, and values that makes these poems such fine guides to the world of poetry in the long years in which "Great Britain" was consolidated as an empire, at home and abroad.
Encyclopedia of National Anthems
Title | Encyclopedia of National Anthems PDF eBook |
Author | Xing Hang |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | |
Release | 2011 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
The National Anthems of the Allies
Title | The National Anthems of the Allies PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 32 |
Release | 1917 |
Genre | National songs |
ISBN |
National Anthems of the American Nations
Title | National Anthems of the American Nations PDF eBook |
Author | Organization of American States |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 134 |
Release | 1972 |
Genre | National songs |
ISBN |
Anthem
Title | Anthem PDF eBook |
Author | Shana L. Redmond |
Publisher | NYU Press |
Total Pages | 358 |
Release | 2014 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 081477041X |
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