That violent repetitive noise, even when only imagined, can make your body shake in a rhythm. Imagine the sound of a machine gun firing (popular culture and war reporting enables an access to the soundscape if not experienced first hand). How about North Korean military marches? Military training typically includes synchronised marching and singing, all over, even if foot drill has become less relevant in actual warfare. As an example, Chechens have used the ancient sufi ritual zikr, a praise for Allah with men chanting and moving in a whirl, to prepare for battle. Preparation for war, military training, active warfare, resistance of war, post-war community building do all contain elements of synchronised movement. This makes me think about nation or community building related to war by synchronised movement and voice/noise.Įven if foot drill has become less relevant in actual warfare, military training includes synchronised marching. It indicates a nation-building taking place, as is typical for international sports contests. The Icelandic football fans’ chant has been called a “viking war chant”. Even at such a distance, it gives me the chills. The non-linguistic, the pre-discursive pulse of life. In the homecoming celebration of team Iceland, the bodies were in the thousands, chanting and clapping with the beat of a drum. There is some very powerful emotion in bodies moving collectively. In a large group the synchrony is less precise of course, but the quantity compensates for quality, and the impression of synchrony is strong enough. Those not in the same space have a harder time to follow the timing because they lack the other physical bodies in the same space whose rhythm to follow. When grouped in one part of the football stadium, the fans could act simultaneously, in synchrony.īut when grouped in one part of the football stadium, the fans could act simultaneously, in synchrony. Participating through the television screen, my chants would have been wrongly timed. In particular, I was impressed by the timing, because the chanting began with a rather big time gap in the middle, and it could be difficult to keep the beat.Īt least in some parts of the stadium the fans used a drum, but one small drum could only reach part of the crowd and the rest would have to pick up the corporeal message of timing from the surrounding people. It resembles Finns in the Winter War.īut one of the most stunning part of team Iceland was its fans, who were chanting ‘UH’ while clapping their hands, speeding the tempo gradually. This underdog heroism is why we love the story. Iceland’s football team is an erupting volcano whose victory is due to unity. Underdog heroism is why we love the story. Such a success story depicts the team and the entire population of a seemingly trivial nation rising to defeat the top teams. What will we remember from the UEFA Euro 2016? My prediction is: Iceland advancing all the way to the quarter-finals as the heroic team of a tiny nation. Listen to the article, read by writer Susanna Hast: Two thousand twenty-nine people have been charged with administrative offenses for "discrediting" the Russian army since February 24, the independent Russian newspaper Novaya Gazeta reported.Synchrony-induced compassion could be the common nominator between football chants, war chants and peace chants with militarised-synchronised movement at the core of community building. Shevchuk is charged with "discrediting" the Russian military and, if found guilty, faces a fine of up to 50,000 rubles ($800), according to reports. "The motherland, my friends, is not the president's ass that has to be slobbered and kissed all the time," Shevchuk said, per The Moscow Times.
He said that mothers, children, and the elderly are dying due to "some Napoleonic plans of another Caesar of ours," the video shows. For what? What are the goals, my friends?" In a version of the video, subtitled in English, Shevchuk said: "And now people of Ukraine are being murdered. Russian rockstar Yuri Shevchuk, the lead singer of the band DDT, was prosecuted after speaking out against Putin and the war in Ukraine at a performance in Ufa, Russia, The Moscow Times reported.įootage of his speech has been shared widely on social media. The anti-war chanting took place at a concert for the Russian band Kis-Kis at the A2 Green Concert venue in St Petersburg on Friday night.Įarlier this week, another concert was the scene of an anti-war protest. This content is not available due to your privacy preferences.
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