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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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From Ruslana to Gaitana: Performing “Ukrainianness” in the Eurovision Song Contest
Contemporary Southeastern Europe, 2015 This article considers how the Eurovision Song Contest (ESC) has come to be used as a platform for the politicisation of national identity in Ukraine. Ukraine can be described as an amalgam of regions with different ethnolinguistic, economic, cultural ...
Paul Jordan
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Revista Alicantina de Estudios Ingleses, 2022 From the late 1950s and throughout the 1960s, the impact of American twist and rock’n’roll and British beat music, the Eurovision Song Contest, the considerable growth of the national record industry, the number of radio stations and the (still timid ...
José Ruiz Mas
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Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, Volume 50, Issue 1, March 2025.Short Abstract In this paper, I describe how I have contended with the fraught relationships among mapping, nationalism, and colonialism in my teaching and research. I describe the ways my own thinking about mapping has been pushed in new directions by insights from Black geographies.
Camilla Hawthorne
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Tijdschrift voor MediageschiedenisThe Eurovision Song Contest states that ‘a rich history of promoting diversity [and] inclusivity’ is amongst its core values. Furthermore, the contest claims to able to ‘bridge differences and ignite a sense of shared community.’ Despite this, Catherine ...
Greg Cotton
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The ‘Friday effect’: School attendance over the weeki
British Educational Research Journal, Volume 51, Issue 1, Page 73-92, February 2025.Abstract Using newly released detailed data on absence from school, we find a ‘Friday effect’—children are much less likely to attend schools in England on Fridays. We use daily level data across the whole of England and find that this pattern holds for different schools and for different types of absence, including illness‐related authorised and ...
Joanna Clifton‐Sprigg, Jonathan James
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Spijkervet/eurovision-dataset: 2023
, 2023 <p>Eurovision Song Contest voting and contestant data from 1956 - 2023. Also includes Eurovision odds data from 2015 - 2023 in <code>betting_offices.csv</code></p> <p>Also includes scraper changes due to website updates.</
Janne
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What Sweden thinks about markets, capitalism and the rich
Economic Affairs, Volume 45, Issue 1, Page 27-44, February 2025.Abstract Attitudes towards the rich are far more positive in Sweden than in France, Spain, Germany, and Italy. Attitudes towards the market economy are also more positive in Sweden than in all other European countries, except Poland. Although Sweden is perceived by some as a model of ‘democratic socialism’, it has been 50 years since that this was ...
Anders Ydstedt, Rainer Zitelmann
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Nature and Magic as Representation of “The Sami”—Sami Shamanistic Material in Popular Culture
Religions, 2020 This article examines how magic and nature become representations of both “the Sami” and “Sami shamanism” in animation films Frozen 2 and Klaus, in the television crime series Midnattssol (Midnight Sun) and in three Eurovision Song Contest contributions ...
Anne Kalvig
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JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, Volume 63, Issue 1, Page 3-27, January 2025.Abstract The ability of the European community to respond to the multiple crises threatening the European Union and Europe depends in part on citizens' shared European identity giving legitimacy and support to communal action. Men's elite European club football is an example of a cultural practice that is highly Europeanised, reaches diverse audiences ...
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