Empire of song : Europe and nation in the Eurovision Song Contest

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Label

Empire of song : Europe and nation in the Eurovision Song Contest

Title remainder

Europe and nation in the Eurovision Song Contest

Statement of responsibility

edited by Dafni Tragaki

Contributor

• Tragaki, Dafni,
• Tragaki, Dafni,

Editor

• Tragaki, Dafni,
• Tragaki, Dafni,

Subject

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

Language

eng

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."

Member of

• Europea ;, no. 15

Cataloging source

DLC

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

Series statement

Europea: ethnomusicologies and modernities

Series volume

#15