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Title

Empire of song : Europe and nation in the Eurovision Song Contest / edited by Dafni Tragaki.

Publication

Lanham : The Scarecrow Press, Inc., 2013.

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Additional Authors

Tragaki, Dafni

Description

xiv, 321 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.

Summary

"The Eurovision Song Contest (ESC) is more than a musical event that ostensibly "unites European people" through music. It is a spectacle and performative event, one that allegorically represents the idea of "Europe." In "Empire of Song: Europe and Nation in the Eurovision Song Contest," contributors interpret the ESC as a musical "mediascape" and mega-event that has variously performed and performs the changing visions of the European project. Through the study of the cultural politics of the ESC, essayists discuss the ways in which music operates as a dynamic nexus for making national identities and European sensibilities, generating processes of 'assimilation' or 'integration, ' and defining the celebrated notion of the 'European citizen' in a global context."

Series Statement

Europea: ethnomusicologies and modernities ; #15

Uniform Title

Europea ; no. 15.

Subject

• Eurovision Song Contest
• Music > Competitions > Europe
• Music > Social aspects > Europe
• Music > Political aspects > Europe

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Foreword / by Franco Fabbri -- Introduction / by Dafni Tragaki -- Tempus edax rerum : time and the making of the Eurovision song / by Philip V. Bohlman -- Eurovision everywhere : a kaleidoscopic vision of the Grand Prix / by Andrea F. Bohlman and Ioannis Polychronakis -- The Nordic brotherhoods : Eurovision as a platform for partnership and competition / by Annemette Kirkegaard -- The big match : literature, cinema, and the Sanremo Festival deception / by Goffredo Plastino -- Performing affiliation : on topos in the Swedish preliminaries / by Karin Strand -- Delimiting the Euro-body : historicity, politicization, queerness / by Apostolos Lampropoulos -- The Oriental body on the European stage : producing Turkish cultural identity on the margins of Europe / by Thomas Solomon -- Invincible heroes : the musical construction of national and European identities in Swedish Eurovision Song Contest entries / by Alf Björnberg -- "And after love" : Eurovision, Portuguese popular culture and the carnation revolution / by Luisa Pinto Teixeira and Martin Stokes -- The monsters' dream : fantasies of the empire within / by Dafni Tragaki -- The rise and fall of the singing tiger : Ireland and Eurovision / by Tony Langlois -- Doing the European two-step / by Andrea F. Bohlman and Alexander Rehding.

ISBN

• 9780810886995 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 0810886995 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 9780810888173 (electronic)
• 0810888173 (electronic)

LCCN

^^2013002017

OCLC

• 825403963
• SCSB-10422575

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library