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“Euphoria” or “Only Teardrops”? Eurovision Song Contest performance, life satisfaction and suicide [PDF]

open access: yesBMC Public Health, 2018
Background The popularity of the Eurovision Song Contest (ESC) in Europe has been high for decades. We aimed to assess whether a country’s performance in the ESC is associated with life satisfaction and suicide mortality in European countries. Methods We
Filippos T. Filippidis   +1 more
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EUROVISION SONG CONTEST: HISTORY AND CONTEMPORANEITY [PDF]

open access: yesStudiul Artelor şi Culturologie: Istorie, Teorie, Practică, 2016
The present article analyses the Eurovision Song Contest’s history including the evolution of the Republic of Moldova’s participation in this important event from both points of view, that is, the cultural and political ones.
TCACENCO VICTORIA
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Predicting Eurovision Song Contest Results: A Hit Song Science Approach

open access: yesTransactions of the International Society for Music Information Retrieval
Prior studies on hit song prediction have predominantly focused on forecasting a song’s success in music charts, neglecting the examination of song contests such as Eurovision.
Katarzyna Adamska, Joshua Reiss
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Rethinking Eurovision Song Contest as a Clash of Cultures

open access: yesGazi Akademik Bakış, 2015
Modern era’s understanding of culture overlooked culture, as a social and cultural analysis category as well as a way of life. This point of view has lost its validity and culture gained significance as an area where rulership and power struggle exists ...
Zeynep Merve ŞIVGIN
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Order effects in the results of song contests: Evidence from the Eurovision and the New Wave [PDF]

open access: yesJudgment and Decision Making, 2017
The results of song contests offer a unique opportunity to analyze possible distortions arising from various biases in performance evaluations using observational data.
Evgeny A. Antipov   +1 more
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The politics of power, pleasure and prayer in the Eurovision Song Contest [PDF]

open access: yesMuzikologija, 2007
Since the first annual Eurovision Song Contest in 1956, politics and popularity have intersected to influence the ways in which Eurovision songs have reflected the complex forms of European nationalism.
Bolman Filip V.
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Cultural Voting: The Eurovision Song Contest [PDF]

open access: yesSSRN Electronic Journal, 2005
We analyze the voting behavior and ratings of judges in a popular song contest held every year in Europe. The dataset makes it possible to analyze the determinants of success, and gives a rare opportunity to run a direct test of vote trading, or logrolling.
Ginsburgh, Victor, Noury, Abdul Ghafar
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We are Not Groupies… We are Band Aids’: Assessment Reliability in the AI Song Contest

open access: yesTransactions of the International Society for Music Information Retrieval, 2021
In 2020, inspired by the expectation that Rotterdam would host the Eurovision Song Contest, the Dutch public broadcaster VPRO sponsored an international AI Song Contest.
John Ashley Burgoyne   +1 more
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MEASURING CULTURAL DYNAMICS THROUGH THE EUROVISION SONG CONTEST [PDF]

open access: yesAdvances in Complex Systems, 2013
Measuring culture and its dynamics through surveys has important limitations, but the emerging field of computational social science allows us to overcome them by analyzing large-scale datasets. In this paper, we study cultural dynamics through the votes in the Eurovision song contest, which are decided by a crowd-based scheme in which viewers vote ...
Garcia David, Tanase Dorian
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Colours of the new face of Serbia: National symbols and popular music [PDF]

open access: yesGlasnik 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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