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Empire of song :

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0810886995 (cloth : alk. paper)

(Number (ISBN

0810888173 (electronic)

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9780810886995 (cloth : alk. paper)

(Number (ISBN

9780810888173 (electronic)

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Empire of song :

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[Book]

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Europe and nation in the Eurovision Song Contest /

First Statement of Responsibility

edited by Dafni Tragaki.

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

xiv, 321 pages :

Other Physical Details

illustrations ;

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24 cm.

Series Title

Europea: ethnomusicologies and modernities ;

Volume Designation

#15

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Text of Note

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.

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"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."

Eurovision Song Contest.

Music-- Competitions-- Europe.

Music-- Political aspects-- Europe.

Music-- Social aspects-- Europe.

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Tragaki, Dafni

Date of Transaction

20131221113902.0

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[Book]

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