Answer:
It
was through folk songs, folk poetry and folk dances that the true spirit of the
nation was popularised. So, collecting and recording these forms of folk
culture was essential to the project of nation building. The emphasis on vernacular
languages and the collection of local folklore was not just to recover an
ancient national spirit, but also to carry the modern nationalist message to
large audiences who were mostly illiterate. In Poland, they popularised their
language, folk stories, folk songs and folk dances to propagate nationalism
among Polish people, who were under the rule of Russia, Prussia and Austria.
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