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The ‘Gay Olympics’? : the Eurovision Song Contest and the politics of LGBT/European belonging [PDF]
, 2016 The politics of gay and transgender visibility and representation at the Eurovision Song Contest, an annual televised popular music festival presented to viewers as a contest between European nations, show that processes of interest to Queer ...
Baker, Catherine
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, 2020 This book provides a unique and intriguing insight into current debates concerning the relationship between nation and state as well as the political management of international image in today’s Europe through an examination of debates on nation branding
Jordan, Paul
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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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Genre, Sexualité et Société, 2023 The Eurovision Song Contest is subject to virulent criticism from the artistic and intellectual elites. Yet, the defense of individual and collective rights of minorities appears to be a particularly sensitive issue.
Oranie Abbes
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Current Musicology, 2010 Israel’s contenders for the 2009 Eurovision Song Contest (known as the ESC or, as here, Eurovision) were the Israeli Jewish-Arab duo Achinoam Nini and Mira Awad.
Nili Belkind
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Identifying the underlying structure and dynamic interactions in a voting network [PDF]
, 2006 We analyse the structure and behaviour of a specific voting network using a dynamic structure-based methodology which draws on Q-Analysis and social network theory. Our empirical focus is on the Eurovision Song Contest over a period of 20 years.
Albert +32 more
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Economic and political dependencies in cultural voting: A gravity model analysis of Eurovision [PDF]
Romanian Journal of Regional ScienceThis paper examines the factors shaping voting behaviour in the Eurovision Song Contest (ESC) by applying a gravity model to bilateral voting data from Grand Finals between 1995 and 2019.
Alina M. Schoenberg +3 more
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The Eurovision Song Contest. Is voting political or cultural? [PDF]
European Journal of Political Economy, 2008 Abstract We analyze the voting behavior and ratings of judges in a popular song contest held every year in Europe since 1956. The dataset makes it possible to analyze the determinants of success, and gives a rare opportunity to run a direct test of vote trading.
Noury, Abdul Ghafar, Ginsburgh, Victor
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“Much More than a Song Contest”: Exploring Eurovision 2014 as Potlatch
Valuation Studies, 2015 As economic and budgetary scandals reached Danish front pages in 2014 over the Eurovision Song Contest (ESC) held that year in Copenhagen, many bystanders questioned the sense of the event, proclaiming it a massive waste of public money. In this article,
Morten Krogh Petersen, Carina Ren
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Culturally-Biased Voting in the Eurovision Song Contest: Do National Contests Differ? [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2014 The economic literature on the Eurovision Song Contest (ESC) establishes empirical evidence for culturally biased voting, more precisely also biases based on geographical closeness, political relations, ethnical and linguistic affinity. The Bundesvision Song Contest (BSC), a similar contest with principally the same rules but organized on the national ...
Budzinski, Oliver, Pannicke, Julia
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