Empire of Song: Europe and Nation in the Eurovision Song ContestDafni Tragaki Scarecrow Press, 11 juil. 2013 - 336 pages The Eurovision Song Contest (ESC) is more than a musical event that ostensibly “unites European people” through music. It is a spectacle: a performative event that allegorically represents the idea of “Europe.” 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 “mediascape” 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 “assimilation” or “integration,” and defining the celebrated notion of the “European citizen” 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 “popular music” within ethnomusicology and critical musicology, questioning the idea of “Europe” and the “nation” 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. |
Table des matières
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Ch01 Tempus Edax Rerum | 35 |
Ch02 Eurovision Everywhere | 57 |
Ch03 The Nordic Brotherhoods | 79 |
Ch04 The Big Match | 109 |
Ch05 Performing Affiliation | 137 |
Ch06 Delimiting the Eurobody | 151 |
Ch07 The Oriental Body on the European Stage | 173 |
Ch08 Invincible Heroes | 203 |
Ch09 And After Love | 221 |
Ch10 The Monsters Dream | 241 |
Ch11 The Rise and Fall of the Singing Tiger | 261 |
Ch12 Doing the European TwoStep | 281 |
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About the Contributors | 317 |
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