The world's largest and longest-running song competition, the Eurovision Song Contest is a significant and extremely popular media event throughout the continent and abroad. This title explores how the contest sheds light on issues of European politics, national and European identity, race, gender and sexuality, and the aesthetics of camp.
The world's largest and longest-running song competition, the Eurovision Song Contest is a significant and extremely popular media event throughout the continent and abroad. This title explores how the contest sheds light on issues of European politics, national and European identity, race, gender and sexuality, and the aesthetics of camp.
Ivan Raykoff is Assistant Professor at Eugene Lang College, The New School, USA. Robert Deam Tobin is a Professor at Clark University, USA.
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Contents: Introduction; Camping on the borders of Europe Ivan Raykoff; Return to ethnicity: the cultural significance of musical change in the Eurovision Song Contest Alf Björnberg; Eurovision at 50: post-wall and post stonewall Robert Deam Tobin; Chanson canzone Schlager and song: Switzerland's identity struggle in the Eurovision Song Contest Michael Baumgartner; Chasing the 'magic formula' for success: Ralph Siegel and the Grand Prix Eurovision de la Chanson Thorsten Hindrichs; Fernando Filippo and Milly: bringing blackness to the Eurovision stage Lutgard Mutsaers; Finland zero points: nationality failure and shame in the Finnish media Mari Pajala; The socialist star: Yugoslavia Cold War politics and the Eurovision Song Contest Dean Vuletic; Lithuanian contests and European dreams Bjorn Ingvoldstad; 'Russian body and soul': t.A.T.u. performs at Eurovision 2003 Dana Heller; Gay brotherhood: Israeli gay men and the Eurovision Song Contest Dafna Lemish; Articulating the historical moment: Turkey Europe and Eurovision 2003 Thomas Solomon; 'Everyway that I can': auto-orientalism at Eurovision 2003 Matthew Gumpert; Idol thoughts: nationalism in the pan-Arab vocal competition Superstar Katherine Meizel; 'Changing Japan unchanging Japan': shifting visions of the red and white Song Contest Shelley D. Brunt; Index.
Contents: Introduction; Camping on the borders of Europe Ivan Raykoff; Return to ethnicity: the cultural significance of musical change in the Eurovision Song Contest Alf Björnberg; Eurovision at 50: post-wall and post stonewall Robert Deam Tobin; Chanson canzone Schlager and song: Switzerland's identity struggle in the Eurovision Song Contest Michael Baumgartner; Chasing the 'magic formula' for success: Ralph Siegel and the Grand Prix Eurovision de la Chanson Thorsten Hindrichs; Fernando Filippo and Milly: bringing blackness to the Eurovision stage Lutgard Mutsaers; Finland zero points: nationality failure and shame in the Finnish media Mari Pajala; The socialist star: Yugoslavia Cold War politics and the Eurovision Song Contest Dean Vuletic; Lithuanian contests and European dreams Bjorn Ingvoldstad; 'Russian body and soul': t.A.T.u. performs at Eurovision 2003 Dana Heller; Gay brotherhood: Israeli gay men and the Eurovision Song Contest Dafna Lemish; Articulating the historical moment: Turkey Europe and Eurovision 2003 Thomas Solomon; 'Everyway that I can': auto-orientalism at Eurovision 2003 Matthew Gumpert; Idol thoughts: nationalism in the pan-Arab vocal competition Superstar Katherine Meizel; 'Changing Japan unchanging Japan': shifting visions of the red and white Song Contest Shelley D. Brunt; Index.
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