Postwar Europe and the Eurovision Song Contest - Dr Dean Vuletic

Postwar Europe and the Eurovision Song Contest

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Buch | Softcover
288 Seiten
2019
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-350-10739-7 (ISBN)
42,35 inkl. MwSt
Postwar Europe and the Eurovision Song Contest examines how the Eurovision Song Contest has reflected and become intertwined with the history of postwar Europe from a political perspective.

Established in 1956, the Eurovision Song Contest is the world’s largest popular music event and one of the most popular television programmes in Europe, currently attracting a global audience of around 200 million people. Eurovision is often mocked as cultural kitsch because of its over-the-top performances and frivolous song lyrics. Yet there is no cultural medium that connects Europeans more than popular music, the development of which has always been tied to cultural, economic, political, social and technological change – making Eurovision the ideal tool to explain the history of Europe in the last sixty years. This book uses Eurovision as a vehicle to address topics ranging from the Cold War, liberal democracy and communism to nationalism, European integration, economic prosperity and human rights. It analyses these subjects through their cultural, political and social relationships with Eurovision entries as expressed through lyrics and music, as well as by examining public debates that have accompanied the selection of the entries and the organisation of the contest itself. Postwar Europe and the Eurovision Song Contest also considers how states have used Eurovision to define their identities in a European context, be it to assert their national distinctiveness, highlight political issues or affirm their Europeanism or Euroscepticism in the context of European integration.

Based on original sources, including hitherto unpublished archival documents from international broadcasting organisations, this is a novel historical study of interest to anyone keen to know more about the postwar history of Europe and its cultural history in particular.

Dean Vuletic is a historian of contemporary Europe. As a Lise Meitner Fellow in the Department of East European History at the University of Vienna, he leads the project “Intervision: Popular Music and Politics in Eastern Europe”. As a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellow, he previously led the project “Eurovision: A History of Europe through Popular Music”. He holds a doctorate in history from Columbia University, USA. He regularly comments on the Eurovision Song Contest in the international media.

List of Figures
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations

Introduction: Europe's Greatest Television Show
Part I: The Cold War, 1945-1989
1. The Western European Arrangement
2. The Show of Nations
3. A Contest for Communism
Part II: European Unification, 1990-2016
4. A Concert of Europe
5. The Values of Eurovision
Conclusion: Bridges, Diamonds and Fires

Bibliography
Index

Erscheinungsdatum
Zusatzinfo 7 bw illus
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 156 x 234 mm
Gewicht 413 g
Themenwelt Kunst / Musik / Theater Musik Pop / Rock
Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Regional- / Ländergeschichte
Geschichte Teilgebiete der Geschichte Kulturgeschichte
ISBN-10 1-350-10739-5 / 1350107395
ISBN-13 978-1-350-10739-7 / 9781350107397
Zustand Neuware
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