Abstract
Collective singing can be a powerful instrument to establish (or counter) political identities. Poets such as those who were involved in the revolutionary Dutch Patriot movement of the 1780s (re)discovered this performative power of song in the second half of the eighteenth century. This article explores how three main principles of the genre unity of feeling, simplicity, and singability contributed to a poetics of identification in Dutch eighteenth-century political songs. Through different musical-rhetorical techniques songs had to arouse feelings of collectivity in relation to political abstractions (such as fatherland, freedom, liberty) to which a felt tie would not develop automatically.
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