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| Title | : | A Song for Europe: Popular Music and Politics in the Eurovision Song Contest (Ashgate Popular and Folk Music Series) |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.92 (525 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0754658791 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 216 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-04-01 |
| Language | : | English |
In addition to discussing the Eurovision Song Contest, A Song for Europe provides a fine introduction to readers interested in understanding the multi-media context that is increasingly the primary site for the reception of music. This volume also serves the valuable purpose of raising awareness of the contest among readers outside of Europe.' David Brackett, McGill University, Canada 'Raykoff and Tobin's collection of essays is a fresh and thought-provoking read, as the contributions are theoretically informed, well written, concise, and, what is most important, linked to each other by a number of central ideas and concepts that are
Established in 1956 as a televised spectacle to unify postwar Western Europe through music, the contest features singers who represent a participating nation with a new popular song. For some countries, participation in Eurovision has been simultaneously an assertion of modernity and a claim to membership in Europe and the West. This process alone reveals much about national identities and identifications, as voting patterns expose deep-seated alliances and animosities among participating countries. Viewers vote by phone for their favourite performance, though they cannot vote for their own country's entry. Eurovision is sometimes regarded as a low-brow camp spectacle of little aesthetic or intellectual value. 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. Here, an international group of scholars from a variety of disciplines, including musicology, communications, history, sociology, English and German studies, explore how the contest sheds light on issues of European politics, national and European identity, race, gender and sexuality, a
"Eurovision Song Contest History and Insights." according to Islo Hartwig. Edited by friends of my daughter, this book informed me in a scholarly way about the Eurovision contest. My only regret is that the coverage stopped at about 2005.
Robert Deam Tobin is a Professor at Clark University, USA. Ivan Raykoff is Assistant Professor at Eugene Lang College, The New School, USA.
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