Choral Societies and Nationalism in Europe

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This wide-ranging contribution to the study of nationalism and the social history of music examines the relationship between choral societies and national mobilization in the nineteenth century. From Norway to the Basque country and from Wales to Bulgaria, this pioneering study explores and compares the ways choral societies influenced and reflected the development of national awareness under differing political and social circumstances. By the second half of the nineteenth century, organized communal singing became a primary leisure activity that attracted all layers of society. Though strongly patriotic in tone, choral societies borrowed from each other and relied heavily on prominent German or French models. This volume is the first to address both the national and transnational significance of choral singing. Contributors are: Carmen De Las Cuevas Hevia, Jan Dewilde, Tomáš Kavka, Anne Jorunn Kydland, Krisztina Lajosi, Joep Leerssen, Sophie-Anne Leterrier, Jane Mallinson, Tatjana Marković, Fiona M. Palmer, Karel Šima, Andreas Stynen, Dominique Vidaud, Ivanka Vlaeva, Jozef Vos, Gareth Williams, Hana Zimmerhaklová. Choral Societies and Nationalism in Europe Copyright Contents Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction 1 German Influences: Choirs, Repertoires, Nationalities 2 Choral Societies and Nationalist Mobilization in Nineteenth-Century France 3 Song in the Service of Politics and the Building of Norway 4 Choral Societies and Nationalist Mobilization in the Nineteenth Century: A Scottish Perspective 5 Fighting Choirs: Choral Singing and the Emergence of a Welsh National Tradition, 1860–1914 6 The Large-Scale Oratorio Chorus in Nineteenth-Century England: Choral Power and the Role of Handel’s Messiah 7 National Art and Local Sociability: Dutch Male Choral Societies in the Nineteenth Century 8 The Choir Scene in Flemish Belgium in the First Half of the Nineteenth Century: The Vlaemsch-Duitsch Zangverbond 9 Choral Societies and Nationalist Mobilization in the Basque Country: The Orfeon Donostiarra 10 Choral Societies and Nationalist Mobilization in Catalonia, 1850–1930 11 “By Means of Singing to the Heart, by Means of Heart to the Homeland”: Choral Societies and the Nationalist Mobilization of Czechs in the Nineteenth Century 12 Collapsing Stages and Standing Ovations: Hungarian Choral Societies and Sociability in the Nineteenth Century 13 Choral Societies and National Mobilization in the Serbian (Inter)national Network 14 Choral Societies and National Mobilization in Nineteenth-Century Bulgaria Bibliography Index