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Empire of Song

- Europe and Nation in the Eurovision Song Contest

About Empire of Song

The Eurovision Song Contest (ESC) is more than a musical event that ostensibly ΓÇ£unites European peopleΓÇ¥ through music. It is a spectacle: a performative event that allegorically represents the idea of ΓÇ£Europe.ΓÇ¥ Since its beginning in the Cold War era, the contest has functioned as a symbolic realm for the performance of European selves and the negotiation of European identities. Through the ESC, Europe is experienced, felt, and imagined in singing and dancing as the interplay of tropes of being local and/or European is enacted.In Empire of Song: Europe and Nation in the Eurovision Song Contest, contributors interpret the ESC as a musical ΓÇ£mediascapeΓÇ¥ and mega-event that has variously performed and performs the changing visions of the European project. Through the study of the cultural politics of the ESC, contributors discuss the ways in which music operates as a dynamic nexus for making national identities and European sensibilities, generating processes of ΓÇ£assimilationΓÇ¥ or ΓÇ£integration,ΓÇ¥ and defining the celebrated notion of the ΓÇ£European citizenΓÇ¥ in a global context. Scholars in the volume also explore the ways otherness and difference are produced, spectacularized, challenged, or even neglected in the televised musical realities of the ESC. For the contributing authors, song serves as a site for constituting Europe and the nation, on- and offstage. History and politics, as well as the constant production of European subjectivities, are sounded in song. The Eurovision song is a shifting realm where old and new states imagine their pasts, question their presents, and envision ideal futures in the New Europe.Essays in Empire of Song adopt theoretical and epistemological orientations in their exploration of ΓÇ£popular musicΓÇ¥ within ethnomusicology and critical musicology, questioning the idea of ΓÇ£EuropeΓÇ¥ and the ΓÇ£nationΓÇ¥ through and in music, at a time when the European self appears more fragmented, if not entirely shattered. Bringing together ethnomusicology, music studies, history, social anthropology, feminist theory, linguistics, media ethnography, postcolonial theory, comparative literature, and philosophy, Empire of Song will interest students and scholars in a vast array of disciplines.

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  • Language:
  • English
  • ISBN:
  • 9780810886995
  • Binding:
  • Hardback
  • Pages:
  • 336
  • Published:
  • July 10, 2013
  • Dimensions:
  • 159x232x28 mm.
  • Weight:
  • 660 g.
Delivery: 2-4 weeks
Expected delivery: December 15, 2024

Description of Empire of Song

The Eurovision Song Contest (ESC) is more than a musical event that ostensibly ΓÇ£unites European peopleΓÇ¥ through music. It is a spectacle: a performative event that allegorically represents the idea of ΓÇ£Europe.ΓÇ¥ Since its beginning in the Cold War era, the contest has functioned as a symbolic realm for the performance of European selves and the negotiation of European identities. Through the ESC, Europe is experienced, felt, and imagined in singing and dancing as the interplay of tropes of being local and/or European is enacted.In Empire of Song: Europe and Nation in the Eurovision Song Contest, contributors interpret the ESC as a musical ΓÇ£mediascapeΓÇ¥ and mega-event that has variously performed and performs the changing visions of the European project. Through the study of the cultural politics of the ESC, contributors discuss the ways in which music operates as a dynamic nexus for making national identities and European sensibilities, generating processes of ΓÇ£assimilationΓÇ¥ or ΓÇ£integration,ΓÇ¥ and defining the celebrated notion of the ΓÇ£European citizenΓÇ¥ in a global context. Scholars in the volume also explore the ways otherness and difference are produced, spectacularized, challenged, or even neglected in the televised musical realities of the ESC. For the contributing authors, song serves as a site for constituting Europe and the nation, on- and offstage. History and politics, as well as the constant production of European subjectivities, are sounded in song. The Eurovision song is a shifting realm where old and new states imagine their pasts, question their presents, and envision ideal futures in the New Europe.Essays in Empire of Song adopt theoretical and epistemological orientations in their exploration of ΓÇ£popular musicΓÇ¥ within ethnomusicology and critical musicology, questioning the idea of ΓÇ£EuropeΓÇ¥ and the ΓÇ£nationΓÇ¥ through and in music, at a time when the European self appears more fragmented, if not entirely shattered. Bringing together ethnomusicology, music studies, history, social anthropology, feminist theory, linguistics, media ethnography, postcolonial theory, comparative literature, and philosophy, Empire of Song will interest students and scholars in a vast array of disciplines.

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