The politics of power, pleasure and prayer in the Eurovision Song Contest
Description: Since the first annual Eurovision Song Contest in 1956, politics and popularity have intersected to influence the ways in which Eurovision songs have reflected the complex forms of European nationalism. With the Eurovision victory of Marija Šerifoviććs ćMolitvać at the 52nd Eurovision in Helsinki the politics of regionalism and nationalism fully enveloped Southeastern Europe, creating the impression that old and new European alignments, from Habsburg nostalgia to an emerging Balkan brotherhood, overwhelmed the criteria that would otherwise mean that the grand prix would go to the best song. Taking Marija Šerifoviććs ćMolitvać 2007 as a point of departure, this article examines the extremely complex set of networks that intersect at the Eurovision Song Contest and the national rituals and competitions that transform the power and pleasure driving European popular song in the twenty-first century.; Muzikologija (7) 39-67
Creator:
Bolman Filip V.
Date: [2007]
Type: pdf
Language: eng
Data provider: Narodna biblioteka Srbije - National Library of Serbia (NLS)
Provider: The European Library
Providing country: Serbia
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