‘Waer vriendenmin gaet, hand aen hand, met liefde voor het Vaderland’ : het zingen van politieke liederen als verbindende praktijk in het Nederlandse revolutietijdvak (1780-1815)

In the Dutch revolutionary period of the late eighteenth century, song was often used as a political tool to construct communities that shared interests, ideologies, and feelings. Abstract feelings of unity were made concrete through the experience of collective singing. Despite being continuously employed as a unifying practice, the ways of singing and the feelings that were involved nevertheless changed in accordance with the turbulent circumstances of the time - from the emergence of the Patriots, to the Batavian Revolution, throughout the Napoleonic years, and towards the establishment of... Mehr ...