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Postwar Europe and the Eurovision Song Contest (Hardcover) Loot Price: R4,565
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Postwar Europe and the Eurovision Song Contest (Hardcover): Dean Vuletic

Postwar Europe and the Eurovision Song Contest (Hardcover)

Dean Vuletic

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 Based on original sources, including hitherto unpublished archival documents from international broadcasting organisations, this is a novel historical study of interest to anyone keen to know more about the postwar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

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Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Release date: October 2017
Authors: Dean Vuletic
Dimensions: 234 x 156mm (L x W)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 288
ISBN-13: 978-1-4742-7626-9
Categories: Books > Humanities > History > European history > General
Books > Humanities > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history
Books > Arts & Architecture > Music > Contemporary popular music > Rock & pop > General
Books > Humanities > History > World history > From 1900 > Postwar, from 1945
Books > History > European history > General
Books > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history
Books > History > World history > From 1900 > Postwar, from 1945
Books > Music > Contemporary popular music > Rock & pop > General
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LSN: 1-4742-7626-1
Barcode: 9781474276269

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