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Love Is the Only Soldier

album by Jann Arden

Manuscripts, fine bindings, an engraving plate and preserved performance ephemera
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionFeb 10, 2024
Entity authorityQ16949329 ↗
Source-derived summary

Love Is the Only Soldier is the fifth studio album by Canadian singer-songwriter Jann Arden, released on September 9, 2003.

Editorial summary

“Love Is the Only Soldier” enters the record as album by Jann Arden. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Love, Only and Soldier can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA useful identification and reception guide that helps separate the work itself from editions, performances, ownership and later interpretation. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2003—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2003. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Love, Only and Soldier.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

“Love Is the Only Soldier” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Love, Only and Soldier provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Reception evidence should be dated and situated: later canonical status may differ sharply from the work’s initial circulation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Feb 10, 2024. The linked authority identifier is Q16949329. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2003.

Critical limits

Rights, attribution and provenance may remain disputed even when a general reference summary presents a stable account. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Separate the work, its editions or performances, and its later reception. Catalogue records, publication histories and object files often preserve different parts of that story.

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  • Identifying works and editions
  • Tracing reception history
  • Finding collection records
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The original object or edition, catalogue raisonné, performance record, rights file and holding institution.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Love Is the Only Soldier”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Love Is the Only Soldier primary sources, Love Is the Only Soldier archive and Love research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Love Is the Only Soldier”?
  2. Where is authorship, date or provenance documented?
  3. How did later circulation or interpretation alter the work’s reception?
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This entry incorporates text from “Love Is the Only Soldier” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.