Titlebook: Eurovisions: Identity and the International Politics of the Eurovision Song Contest since 1956; Julie Kalman,Ben Wellings,Keshia Jacotine

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Heiner Igel,Gunnar Jahnke,Yehuda Ben-Zionwith Europe. It considers the ideological dimensions of Eurovision’s own history and the impact this might have on the contest’s future in Asia. While Australia’s participation in Eurovision was tolerated as part of the sixtieth anniversary in 2015, its return performance in 2016 was greeted with so

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Yehuda Ben-Zion,Vladimir Lyakhovskydation in 1956. Organisers insist the event has a ‘non-political’ nature and thus prohibit ‘political’ messages, symbols and gestures. In 2015–16, a series of controversies about the display of flags during Eurovision broadcasts—including a ‘flag policy’ that restricted audience flags to UN member s

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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-93818-7g methods, I argue that that the institutional characteristics of modern democracy have always been present at Eurovision, with a shift over time that has mirrored the expansion of the franchise and the ‘democratisation’ of southern and eastern European states, as well as an increasing demand for di

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Entangled Histories: Identity, Eurovision and European Integration,imacy afflicting the European project requires an examination of the normative dimensions of support for European integration. This chapter views the historic development of the Eurovision Song Contest in the 1950s as an element of the broader initiative for European unity. It examines Eurovision’s

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Germany as Good European: National Atonement and Performing Europeanness in the Eurovision Song Con a distinctly German form of national identity, to craft a post-national identity and to embrace ideas of European citizenship. This manifests itself in the idea of Germany as a ‘Good European’ both in the context of the EU and NATO and the ESC. Germany has used a discrete style of nation-branding t

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,‘Making Your Mind Up’: Britain, Europe and Eurovision-Scepticism,in the process of European integration from 1961–2016. Early promise and active engagement gave way to a narrative of decline that was both a symptom and a cause of progressive disillusion with and disengagement from Europe. Memories of former greatness prevented an active engagement with both Eurov