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Postwar Europe and the Eurovision Song Contest

Title
Postwar Europe and the Eurovision Song Contest / Dean Vuletic.
Author
Vuletic, Dean
Publication
  • London ; New York, NY : Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2018.
  • ©2018

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xiv, 272 pages : illustrations, map; 24 cm
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.
Subjects
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-260) and index.
Call Number
JME 18-173
ISBN
  • 9781474276269
  • 1474276261
LCCN
2017018017
OCLC
964327483
Author
Vuletic, Dean, author.
Title
Postwar Europe and the Eurovision Song Contest / Dean Vuletic.
Publisher
London ; New York, NY : Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2018.
Copyright Date
©2018
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-260) and index.
Research Call Number
JME 18-173
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