Section 17: National Unification

Vocabulary: polyglot, adjutant, renunciation, promenade, perpetuity, realpolitik

Textbook Reading:

Topic 7.2 (423-429)

Topic 7.3 (432-441)

Historical Perspectives: 440-441

Questions 1-3

Assigned Reading/Videos

Article on Nationalism and Music: kent (2)

Article: “Kent’s Sweden, or what a rock band can tell us about a nation” 

Answer the following questions:

1.  What does Kent’s music communicate in regards to nationalistic ideals?

2. What is Billing’s thesis and do you agree with it (explain)?

3. What makes popular Swedish music distinctly Swedish?

4. Watch video “Da Som Nu For Alltid” and explain how two aspects of the music video could be seen as nationalistic.

Then is now forever:

ThAssigned Reading:

Ems Dispatch

States and Nationalism in Europe 1492-1992