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Songwashing and Cultural Boycotting the Eurovision Song Contest: A Soft Power/Disempowerment Analysis of Israel’s Entry to Eurovision 2024 during the Israel-Hamas War

Popular music and society
When the Eurovision Song Contest 2024 premiered on 7 May 2024, the Israel-Hamas war had been unfurling for precisely seven months. Protests against Israel’s entry plagued Eurovision with calls to ban Israel and boycott the event. Israel’s song choice was
M. Kosciejew
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Bridging the ‘sport/culture silo’: the Eurovision Song Contest and its lessons for sporting and cultural mega-events

The International Journal of Cultural Policy
The Eurovision Song Contest (ESC) uniquely exhibits features of both sporting and cultural events. Its tradition of awarding hosting rights to the previous year’s winning broadcaster has persisted even as its scale has approached that of sporting and ...
Catherine Baker   +3 more
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Dutch Politics of Music-Washing at Eurovision: The Monstrous Hybrid of Commodified Musical Legacies of Slavery, Imperialist Utopianism, and White Nationalism

Popular music and society
The paper investigates the Dutch entry at Eurovision 2021, when the Netherlands’ representative Jeangu Macrooy performed a song that referred to the singer’s Afro-Surinamese origins and to the ages of slavery enforced in Suriname by Dutch colonists ...
Marek Susdorf
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Emotions in Eurovision Song Contest Lyrics

2025 MIPRO 48th ICT and Electronics Convention
The Eurovision Song Contest, started in 1956, is the longest-running annual TV music competition. So far, more than 1,500 songs have been sung at the competition, the lyrics of which contain numerous emotions.
Dalibor Bužić, J. Dobša
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REPRESENTATION OF NATIONAL IMAGES AT THE EUROVISION SONG CONTEST (USING THE EXAMPLE OF THE NETHERLANDS AND NORWAY)

Dynamics of Media Systems
The article examines the Eurovision Song Contest as a platform for cultural diplomacy and representation of national identity. Using an imagological approach, the performances of the Netherlands (Duncan Lawrence, “Arcade”) and Norway (KEiiNO group ...
A. I. Kobyakova, E. Y. Panova
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‘Love Love Peace Peace’? The paradoxes of the Eurovision Song Contest

Journal of European Popular Culture
The Eurovision Song Contest (ESC) was initiated as a means to create a collaborative climate among the (western) European countries after the Second World War. Still, the ESC is about competing among countries.
Christina Öberg
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