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“Euphoria” or “Only Teardrops”? Eurovision Song Contest performance, life satisfaction and suicide [PDF]
BMC 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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The Eurovision Song Contest: voting rules, biases and rationality [PDF]
Journal of Cultural Economics, 2022 AbstractWe analyze and evaluate the rules and results at the 2021 Eurovision Song Contest. We first concentrate on the various voting procedures and explore several alternatives (inspired by classical contributions in social choice and game theory) that could make a difference for the results. We also discuss other important issues, such as simplicity,
VÍCTOR Ginsburgh +2 more
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Rethinking Eurovision Song Contest as a Clash of Cultures
Gazi 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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EUROVISION SONG CONTEST: HISTORY AND CONTEMPORANEITY [PDF]
Studiul 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
Transactions of the International Society for Music Information RetrievalPrior 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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Eurovision Song Contest: From Apolitical to Mega‐Political?
Politics & PolicyABSTRACTIn the realm of a changing geopolitical landscape and the concomitant politicization of culture, this article focuses on how shifts in political orders within the broader context affect and politicize a cultural party. The study draws inspiration from the Eurovision Song Contest (ESC) and how the 2024 edition of the contest underscored, more ...
Christina Öberg
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Volunteering as Media Work: The Case of the Eurovision Song Contest
Culture Unbound: Journal of Current Cultural Research, 2019 This article explores volunteering in relation to the Eurovision Song Contest (ESC), which took place in Stockholm in 2016 and in Kyiv in 2017, with the aim of shedding light on volunteering as a form of “media work”.
Fredrik Stiernstedt, Irina Golovko
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Breaking the code: Multi-level learning in the Eurovision Song Contest [PDF]
Royal Society Open ScienceOrganizations learn from market, political and societal responses to their actions. While in some cases both the actions and responses take place in an open manner, in many others, some aspects may be hidden from external observers.
Luis A. Nunes Amaral +2 more
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Order effects in the results of song contests: Evidence from the Eurovision and the New Wave [PDF]
Judgment 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]
Muzikologija, 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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