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"Nineteenth-century national movements perceived the nation as a community defined by language, culture and history. Part of the infrastructure to convince the public were institutions publishing literary and scientific texts in the national language. Starting with the Matica srpska (Pest, 1826), a particular kind of society was established in several parts of the Habsburg Empire - inspiring each other, but with often major differences in activities, membership and financing. Outside of the Slavic world analogue institutions played a similar key role in the early stages of national revival in Europe. The Matica and Beyond is the first concerted attempt to comparatively investigate both the specificity and commonality of these cultural associations, bringing together cases from differing regional, political and social circumstances. Contributors are: Daniel Baric, Benjamin Bossaert, Marijan Dović, Liljana Gushevska, Jörg Hackmann, Roisín Higgins, Alfonso Iglesias Amorín, Dagmar Kročanová, Joep Leerssen, Marion Löffler, Philippe Martel, Alexei Miller, Xosé M. Núñez Seixas, Iryna Orlevych, Magdaléna Pokorná, Miloš Řezník, Jan Rock, Diliara M. Usmanova, and Zsuzsanna Varga"--

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.

In 2008 an international research, heuristic and archival platform of scholars and institutes was established: NISE, acronym for National movements and Intermediary Structures in Europe. Its main objective is to enable comparative and transnational studies on national movements in general and their intermediary structures in particular: political parties, cultural associations and social organisations, the people associated with these structures (persons in charge, activists, representatives, ideologists...), and the programmes and goals as articulated in their publications and archives. Mapping out personal and institutional relations between national movements also enables researchers to study political and cultural transfers. And theoreticians of nationalism are given the opportunity to make use of more controlled and structured empirical data than ever before.

Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of contributors -- Preface -- Introduction: emotions and everyday nationalism in modern European history -- 1. Feeling nationhood while telling lives: ego-documents, emotions and national character during the Age of Revolutions -- 2. So close and yet so far: degrees of emotional proximity in pauper letters to Dutch national power holders around 1800 -- 3. 'Lou tresor dóu Felibrige': an Occitan dictionary and its emotional potential for readers -- 4. Learning to love: embodied practices of patriotism in the Belgian nineteenth-century classroom (and beyond) -- 5. Performing and remembering personal nationalism among workers in late Russian Poland -- 6. In search of the true Italy: emotional practices and the nation in Fiume 1919/1920 -- 7. Bringing out the dead: mass funerals, cult of death and the emotional dimension of nationhood in Romanian interwar fascism -- 8. Feeling the fatherland: Finnish soldiers' lyrical attachments to the nation during the Second World War -- 9. Emotional communities and the reconstruction of emotional bonds to alien territories: the nationalization of the Polish 'Recovered Territories' after 1945 -- Conclusions: national(ized) emotions from below -- Index.