What was the role of music and language to shape nationalist sentiment

1.	What was the role of music and language to shape nationalist sentiment in europe
Answer» i) The idea of a nation can be created through stories, poets and writings. Music too can help in expressing nationalist feelings or sentiments. (ii) Romanticism, a cultural movement which emerged in Europe, sought to develop a particular form of nationalist sentiments or national feelings. The main aim of romantic artists was to create a sense of a shared collective heritage and a common cultural past. (iii) Language also played an important role in developing the national sentiments or nationalist feeling, e.g., in Poland, language began to be used as a weapon of national resistance. The wide scale use of\xa0Polish language came to be seen as a symbol of struggle against national dominance.

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