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Skirting the issue: finding queer and geopolitical belonging at the Eurovision Song Contest
Contemporary Southeastern Europe, 2015 This article examines how the ideological boundaries of East and West are built, maintained and challenged through the performance of sexual and other politics in the Eurovision Song Contest (ESC).
Jessica Carniel
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Politics, The Eurovision Song contest and Ireland [PDF]
, 2012 While the Eurovision Song Contest attests to be a non-political event, there are always strong political elements running through the different stages of this contest each year, whether it be issues to do with national song selections, the staging of the contest or the much discussed Eurovision voting patterns.
Kavanagh, Adrian
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Cultural Voting: The Eurovision Song Contest [PDF]
SSRN 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
Transactions 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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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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Capturing the role of societal affinity in cross-border mergers with the Eurovision Song Contest [PDF]
, 2020 This paper demonstrates the effectiveness of voting bias in the Eurovision Song Contest as a means of capturing societal affinity. More than 180 million viewers from more than 40 countries watch the Eurovision Song Contest every year and vote for their ...
Antonios Siganos +4 more
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MEASURING CULTURAL DYNAMICS THROUGH THE EUROVISION SONG CONTEST [PDF]
Advances 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 ...
David García 0001, Dorian Tanase
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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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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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Evidence for the influence of the mere-exposure effect on voting in the Eurovision Song Contest [PDF]
Judgment and Decision Making, 2012 The mere exposure, or familiarity, effect is the tendency for people to feel more positive about stimuli to which they have previously been exposed. The Eurovision Song Contest is a two-stage event, in which some contestants in the final will be more ...
Diarmuid B. Verrier
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