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The development of nationalism did not come about only through wars and
territorial expansion. Culture played an important role in creating the idea of
the nation: art and poetry, stories and music helped express and shape
nationalist feelings. Romanticism, a cultural movement which sought to
develop a particular form of nationalist sentiment. Romantic artist and poets
generally criticised the glorification of reason and science and focused instead
on emotions, intuition and mystical feelings.
Their effort was to create a sense of a shared collective heritage, a common
cultural past, as the basis of a nation. Other Romantics such as the German
philosopher Johann Gottfried Herder (1744-1803) claimed that true German
culture was to be discovered among the common people – das volk. It was
through folk songs, folk poetry and folk dances that the true spirit of the
nation (volksgeist) was popularised. So collecting and recording these forms
of folk culture was essential to the project of nation-building.
Poland, had been partitioned at the end of the eighteenth century by the
Great Powers – Russia, Prussia and Austria. Even though Poland no longer
existed as an independent territory, national feelings were kept alive through
music and language. Karol Kurpinski, for example, celebrated the national
struggle through his operas and music, turning folk dances like the polonaise
and mazurka into nationalist symbols.
23.1 The idea of Nationalism came through...
a) Wars and territorial expansion
b) strong devotion to one’s own nation
c) Cultural revolution
d) All the above
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