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Postwar Europe and the Eurovision Song Contest / Dean Vuletic.

Van Pelt - Albrecht Music Library ML76.E87 V85 2018
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English
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Physical Description:
xiv, 272 pages ; 24 cm
Place of Publication:
London ; New York, NY : Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2018.
Summary:
Postwar Europe and the Eurovision Song Contest examines how the Eurovision Song Contest has reflected and become intertwined with the history of postwar Europe from a political perspective. Established in 1956, the Eurovision Song Contest is the world's largest popular music event and one of the most popular television programmes in Europe, currently attracting a global audience of around 200 million people. Eurovision is often mocked as cultural kitsch because of its over-the-top performances and frivolous song lyrics. Yet there is no cultural medium that connects Europeans more than popular music, the development of which has always been tied to cultural, economic, political, social and technological change - making Eurovision the ideal tool to explain the history of Europe in the last sixty years. This book uses Eurovision as a vehicle to address topics ranging from the Cold War, liberal democracy and communism to nationalism, European integration, economic prosperity and human rights. It analyses these subjects through their cultural, political and social relationships with Eurovision entries as expressed through lyrics and music, as well as by examining public debates that have accompanied the selection of the entries and the organisation of the contest itself. Postwar Europe and the Eurovision Song Contest also considers how states have used Eurovision to define their identities in a European context, be it to assert their national distinctiveness, highlight political issues or affirm their Europeanism or Euroscepticism in the context of European integration.
Contents:
  • Part 1 The Cold War, 1945-1989
  • 1 The Western European Arrangement 17
  • Organizations 19
  • Integration 30
  • Anglo-Americanization 40
  • 2 The Show of Nations 53
  • Fashioning 55
  • Mapping 66
  • Revolutions 77
  • 3 A Contest for Communism 89
  • Appropriation 91
  • Intervision 101
  • Dissent 111
  • Part 2 European Unification, 1990-2016
  • 4 A Concert of Europe 125
  • Wars 127
  • Europeanism 138
  • Euroscepticism 149
  • 5 The Values of Eurovision 163
  • Diversity 166
  • Commercialism 177
  • Democracy 188.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
  • 9781474276269
  • 1474276261
OCLC:
964327483

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