A Song for Europe: Popular Music and Politics in the Eurovision Song Contest (Ashgate Popular and Folk Music Series) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0754658791 ISBN 13: 9780754658795

Verlag: Routledge, 2007

Inhaltsangabe

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, explore how the contest sheds light on issues of European politics, national and European identity, race, gender and sexuality, and the aesthetics of camp. Eurovision is sometimes regarded as a low-brow camp spectacle of little aesthetic or intellectual value. The essays in this collection often contradict this assumption, demonstrating that the contest has actually been a significant force and forecaster for social, cultural and political transformations in postwar Europe.

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Ivan Raykoff is Assistant Professor at Eugene Lang College, The New School, USA. Robert Deam Tobin is a Professor at Clark University, USA.

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• Verlag: Routledge
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2007
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0754658791
• ISBN 13: 9780754658795
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 212
• Herausgeber: Tobin Robert Deam, Raykoff Ivan
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