Centrality of Text, and Discourse Strategies in French Political Songs

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On the social life of a city anthem: semiotic objects, ideologies of belonging, and the reproduction of sociocultural difference

“…They are furthermore employed to formulate social values related to the imagined, or strategically constructed, community of a given nation (Gordon 2001;Kater & Riethmüller 2003;Meyer 1993;Nelson 2004). My argument is that the ideological "loadedness" of anthems lies in their capacity to strategically reproduce an ostensible "historical" social order, thereby legitimizing political practices (Clark 1997;Crozet 2010;Guy 2002). The term "political practices" refers to processes regimenting and controlling a people's access to capital and legitimacy (Heller 2001).…”