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Colours of the new face of Serbia: National symbols and popular music [PDF]
Glasnik Etnografskog Instituta SANU, 2009 In this paper I address nationalist iconography in Serbian popular music especially the role of women as the symbols of nation building. Case in point is the victory of Serbian representative Marija Serifovic in Eurovision Song Contest in 2007. I analyze
Mitrović Marijana
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Eurovision and the City: “United by Music” Meets “Malmö against Genocide”
Urban Planning“United by Music” was the slogan of the 2024 edition of the Eurovision Song Contest, held in Malmö. However, the festive spirit of the event oddly contrasted with what was described as “the largest police operation in Sweden’s history” (Ivarsson, 2024 ...
Myrto Dagkouli-Kyriakoglou +5 more
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The Sixth Scroll: The Ritualization of Israel's Declaration of Independence
Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article examines the ritualization of Israel's Declaration of Independence (2011–2025) as part of broader efforts by Israeli Jewish renewal organizations to craft a national counter‐narrative. It argues that reframing the Declaration as a quasi‐sacred text—situated within the Jewish traditional corpus and recited with Biblical ...
Adi Sherzer
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High, Low and Participatory: The Eurovision Song Contest and Cultural Studies
, 2022 At its inception, traditional cultural studies was concerned with bringing scholarly weight and attention to aspects of ‘low’ or popular cultural life that were often not valued equally to ‘high’ cultural forms, such as art, literature and more ...
Carniel, Jessica
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The Discursive Construction of Finnish Nationality on Twitch Esports Chat
Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study explores how esports audiences discursively construct Finnish nationality when spectating games of Counter‐Strike: Global Offensive during a major international tournament. The largest esports tournament broadcasts can attract tens or hundreds of thousands of viewers, who participate in the public debate surrounding the matches.
Marko Siitonen +4 more
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State of the Field: The History of Masculinities
History, Volume 111, Issue 394, Page 5-29, January 2026.Abstract This State of the Field article discusses how, when and why the history of masculinities has emerged since the 1980s, and why it continues to be an important research field today. The article begins with the field's multiple origin stories and then discusses its expansion in chronology, geography and theme, as well as newer directions for ...
ERICA L. FRASER
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Comparison of Eurovision Song Contest simulation with actual results reveals shifting patterns of collusive voting alliances. [PDF]
, 2006 The voting patterns in the Eurovision Song Contest have attracted attention from various researchers, spawning a small cross-disciplinary field of what might be called 'eurovisiopsephology' incorporating insights from politics, sociology and computer ...
Gatherer, D., Gatherer, Derek
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Nation Branding, Cultural Relations and Cultural Diplomacy at Eurovision: Between Australia and Europe [PDF]
, 2019 This chapter explores Australia’s Eurovision history – and its ‘Asiavision’ future – as an articulation of the nation’s complex and ongoing relations with Europe.
Jess Carniel, Carniel, Jessica
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JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, Volume 63, Issue 6, Page 1685-1709, November 2025.Abstract What is ‘Europe’? The response to this question is not straightforward, as ‘Europe’ is a floating signifier that is in constant renegotiation. In this article, we focus on the imaginary of ‘Europe’ that has been deployed in the most salient international crises of the last years that have heavily shaken European Union (EU) politics: the ...
Alvaro Oleart, Juan Roch
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Eurovision as ‘genre’: Spotify and the geography of European popular music
, 2022 Spotify’s database currently features artists from 211 world countries, 51 of which are European (source: Everynoise.com). The platform tags almost each of these individual artists with one or more genre/mood markers, several of which feature ...
Corbella, M., Gandini, A.
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