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This book investigates Australia's relationship with the Eurovision
Song Contest over time and place, from its first screening on SBS
in 1983 to Australia's inaugural national selection in 2019.
Beginning with an overview of Australia's Eurovision history, the
contributions explore the contest's role in Australian political
participation and international relations; its significance for
Australia's diverse communities, including migrants and the
LGBTQIA+ community; racialised and gendered representations of
Australianness; changing ideas of liveness in watching the event;
and a reflection on teaching Australia's first undergraduate course
dedicated to the Eurovision Song Contest. The collection brings
together a group of scholar-fans from a variety of
interdisciplinary perspectives - including history, politics,
cultural studies, performance studies, and musicology - to explore
Australia's transition from observer to participant in the first
thirty-six years of its love affair with the Eurovision Song
Contest.
This book investigates Australia's relationship with the Eurovision
Song Contest over time and place, from its first screening on SBS
in 1983 to Australia's inaugural national selection in 2019.
Beginning with an overview of Australia's Eurovision history, the
contributions explore the contest's role in Australian political
participation and international relations; its significance for
Australia's diverse communities, including migrants and the
LGBTQIA+ community; racialised and gendered representations of
Australianness; changing ideas of liveness in watching the event;
and a reflection on teaching Australia's first undergraduate course
dedicated to the Eurovision Song Contest. The collection brings
together a group of scholar-fans from a variety of
interdisciplinary perspectives - including history, politics,
cultural studies, performance studies, and musicology - to explore
Australia's transition from observer to participant in the first
thirty-six years of its love affair with the Eurovision Song
Contest.
This book presents the first in-depth study of the Eurovision Song
Contest from an Australian perspective. Using a cultural studies
approach, the study draws together fan interviews and surveys with
media and textual analysis of the contest itself. In doing so, it
begins to answer the question of why the European song contest
appeals to viewers in Australia. It explores and challenges the
dominant narrative that links Eurovision fandom to post-WWII
European migration, arguing that this Eurocentric narrative
presents a limited view of how contemporary Australian
multicultural society operates in the context of globalized
culture. It concludes with a consideration of the future of the
Eurovision Song Contest as Australia enters into the 'Asian
century'.
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