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- Title
Hymner og nidviser: Fotballsangenes sosiale dramaturgi.
- Authors
Hognestad, Hans K.
- Abstract
This chapter gives a brief history of football songs. As a cultural practice in football stadiums across the world, tunes and lyrics are borrowed from pop songs, folk music, military marches, religious music and children's songs and can be seen to have migrated between continents and fitted to the symbolic meanings of rivaling football identities. The author argues that football songs can be divided into two categories: tribute songs and gloating chants. While the tribute songs tend to celebrate the football club and its community in ways that resemble psalms or other religious songs, the gloating chants are directed towards rival clubs; real and imagined enemies. These songs are often expressed through symbolic gestures such as threats of violence and gloating sarcasms, coupled with broader cultural and political content and identities. Most of the examples stem from participant field observations in Scotland in the early 1990s as part of a particular study of the supporters of Hearts Football Club, hailing from the Scottish capital Edinburgh. The researcher analyses how club hymns in particular have migrated from across the Atlantic, regularly seeing psalms and folk tunes fitted to serve local purposes. The tunes of the gloating songs tend to be borrowed from comedy shows and cheerful popular songs. In the stadiums these often appear as dialogical chanting driven by the rivaling set of fans. Both song categories share a common origin in music once made popular by famous musicians.
- Subjects
SCOTLAND; HYMNS; SACRED music; CHILDREN'S music; FOLK music; MUSICIANS; POPULAR music
- Publication
Puls, 2021, Vol 6, p125
- ISSN
2002-2972
- Publication type
Article