Allsang i arbeiderbevegelsen

Arbeiderhistorie

Knut Kjeldstadli¹ 

关键词: Sang;    melodi;    arbeiderkultur;    agitasjon;    arbeiderbevegelse;    Song;    melody;    workers’ culture;    agitation;    labour movement;   

DOI  :  10.18261/issn.2387-5879-2018-01-07

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: Scandinavian University Press

【 摘 要 】

Like other popular movements, the labour movement of the nineteenth and the first parts of the twentieth centuries sang together. This group singing had some characteristics—unison singing, easily learnt melodies, often marches, combining text and melody. The songs were used at meetings, rallies, demonstrations and marches. The internal function in the movement was the creation of cohesion and sense of belonging, to give strength and enthusiasm to the ʻarmy of the proletariat’. To the outer world, group singing events functioned as propaganda, both through text and lively melodies: Come along! Some songs were rousing, eliciting anger; others were more analytical, trying to explain why calamities happened in a capitalist society. The didactic function is also due to the corporal dimension: Singing together actually makes the heartbeats of participants pump rhythmically together. The songs may be read as a kind of musical history of the movement: the pioneering time, the revolutionary phase, the victorious social democracy, a more general humanism in the 1950s and 1960s, and impulses from the new left from the 1970s. Group singing may be compared to other types of song—folk songs from the agrarian society, work songs (such as shanties), individual songs by a performer, songs as components in plays, and finally polyphonic choir songs. In labour movements there were songs used by all political tendencies, and more ʻlocal’ repertoires. Songs were also adopted—and adapted—from other popular movements, be they religious or national. A final coda discusses the relationship of the songs to the question of individuality in the labour movement. Do they contribute to creating a ʻblind’ mass, a collective without reflection? Or are the individuals still there, but living within, not outside the collective?

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