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Anthems

Community, Land, and Song

By: Nancy S. Love

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Paperback | 2 November 2025

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178 Pages

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An examination of struggles for national sovereignty and social justice as seen through patriotic anthems and songs of resistance. Anthems are songs of loyalty and devotion with religious or quasi-religious meanings, typically associated with nation-states. Singing patriotic songs together encourages a sense of shared identity and unified community among citizens. Anthems compares traditional American anthems, such as "The Star-Spangled Banner" and "America the Beautiful," with anthems of resistance from contemporary social movements, such as Occupy Wall Street, Black Lives Matter, and Standing Rock. Although seldom fully recognized by political scientists, musical song plays a significant role in struggles for national unity and social justice. While America's national anthems celebrate a unitary (white) nation, these alternative anthems challenge the definition of sovereignty as property that characterizes modern Western democracies. They offer an alternative vision of a multicultural democracy still struggling to emerge. Written from an interdisciplinary perspective on culture, economics, and politics best described as critical theory, Anthems is intended for scholars, students, and, most important, citizens.

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"Love makes a clear and convincing case for the power of music to help shape the way democratic citizens view their collective rights and mobilize, for better or worse. This powerful illumination of the political importance of songs of loyalty and devotio

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