TY - BOOK AU - Vulto,Renée TI - Politics of Feeling in Songs of the Dutch Revolutionary Period T2 - Song Studies SN - 9789048557875 AV - ML3670.3 .V85 2024 U1 - 782.42162/3931 23/eng/20240802 PY - 2024///] CY - Amsterdam PB - Amsterdam University Press KW - Folk songs KW - Netherlands KW - 18th century KW - History and criticism KW - Political ballads and songs KW - AUP Wetenschappelijk KW - Amsterdam University Press KW - Cultural Studies KW - Dutch and The Netherlands KW - Early Modern Studies KW - History, Art History, and Archaeology KW - Interdisciplinary Studies KW - HISTORY / Europe / General KW - bisacsh KW - song culture, emotions, revolutionary politics, performance N1 - Frontmatter --; Table of Contents --; List of Illustrations --; Acknowledgements --; A Note on Language and Music --; Politics of Feeling in Songs of the Dutch Revolutionary Period --; Part I Activating Political Bodies --; 1. Songs of the Patriot Citizens --; 2. Singing an Orangist Counterpoint --; Part II Constructing Emotional Bonds --; 3. Singing Together in Exile --; 4. The Sound of Revolution --; Part III Legitimizing a New Order --; 5. Songs of a New Batavian Nation --; 6. Singing on the Stage of European Conflict --; Conclusions: Listening to Singing Communities --; Epilogue: Napoleonic Transformations and a Return to the Old Order --; Bibliography --; List of songs --; List of tunes --; Index; restricted access N2 - Politics of Feeling in Songs of the Dutch Revolutionary Period sheds new light on the intertwined history of music and politics by exploring Dutch political songs. In the emotionally charged climate of the Dutch revolutionary period at the close of the eighteenth century, songs became a powerful medium, speaking directly to people’s bodies to engage them in political action. Emphasizing the performative nature of the songs and the interplay between imagination and embodied expression in singing practices, this book shows how beyond merely creating communities, the songs were also instrumental in mobilizing, imagining, and affirming these collectives. It uncovers the diverse roles of these songs, showing how they were used both to polarize and to unite, to mourn and to celebrate. They were employed to imagine and to embody togetherness throughout the Dutch revolutionary period, thereby creating a fixed repertoire of feelings on which various political regimes of that time relied UR - https://doi.org/10.1515/9789048557875?locatt=mode:legacy UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9789048557875 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9789048557875/original ER -