found: Grove music online, viewed November 16, 2015(Patriotic music; music that expresses devotion to the nation... Once established, patriotic music can become a site for rehearsal, reinterpretation, and even protest by individual performers or as mass singing. Patriotic songs often figure in social rituals--military pageantry, funerals, concerts, legislative sessions, graduations, and so on-- and their performance traditions and even musical details may shift over time in both new arrangements and the oral tradition.)
