ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the concepts discussed in the various chapters of this book. This book uses the structuring trope of 'singing to the King', drawn from the story of Richard and Blondel, to suggest possible ways in which a 'politics of songs' could be configured with the aim of complicating and expanding this dominant narrative. The narrative of the 'Harmodium Melos' and its associated imagery has featured as one such example of a larger classical narrative that continued to function in topical political songs of the eighteenth-century. This book brings together a diverse body of scholarship and to navigate its way through the endless possibilities that the digital age presents through the trope of 'singing to the King'. In this way it follows the imagining of Furnivall and Hales, but has sought a new liberty in which to understand the politics of songs.
