Many historical events have inspired pieces of music that are now closely associated with them in people’s memories: the French Revolution took hold of La Marseillaise , which was originally a military march ( Latham 2015 ; Vovelle 1984 ); The American Civil Rights Movement took up the hymn We Shall Overcome ( Kernodle 2015 ; Library of Congress gd ); and from the time the Irish soccer team reached the World Cup competition for the first time in 1990, Irish fans in all sports have been heard around the world proclaiming Olé Olé ( McLeod 2015 ; Kenny 2015 ). These musicals now act as antiuns in the broadest sense of that word; not only for nations but as monuments or lieux de mémoire for a community, an event or a concept (Nora 1984-1992) . Since prose involves lyrics and antitune does not necessarily involve lyrics, ‘antitune’ is a more appropriate term for this article discussing antitunes with words and antitunes that function without them (Grove Music Online gd) .
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