Ivan Raykoff
Another Song for Europe: Music, Taste, and Values in the Eurovision Song Contest
Another Song for Europe: Music, Taste, and Values in the Eurovision Song Contest
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The Eurovision Song Contest features over 1,500 songs in over 50 languages, showcasing the most diverse song repertoire in history. This book explores the contest's musical tastes and cultural values, discussing iconic fanfare, successful formulas, and the tension between national genres and American influences. It also explores how audiences interact with the contest through musicking experiences, offering valuable insights into the bonds between popular music and cosmopolitan values.
Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 200 pages
Publication date: 30 May 2022
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
The Eurovision Song Contest, renowned for its extravagant spectacles and political intrigues, has garnered immense popularity worldwide. However, the focus on its music often remains overlooked. With over 1,500 songs in over 50 languages, spanning a diverse range of musical styles since its inception in 1956, Eurovision boasts the most musically and linguistically diverse song repertoire in history. This captivating book delves into the musical tastes and cultural values that the contest engages through its international reach and widespread appeal.
Chapters explore various aspects of Eurovision's musical landscape. They examine the iconic fanfare that heralds the beginning of the broadcast, the purported formulas for composing successful contest entries, the challenges composers face in balancing elements of sameness and difference in their songs, and the tension between national genres of European popular music and musical trends beyond national borders, particularly the American influences on a show that purports to celebrate a pan-European identity.
Furthermore, the book delves into how audiences interact with the contest through musicking experiences that bring people together to celebrate its sounds and spectacles. What may initially appear as a lighthearted song-and-dance show offers valuable insights into the profound bonds between popular music and cosmopolitan values, resonating with its many followers across the globe.
From dance parties to flashmobs, parodies to plagiarisms, and orchestras to artificial intelligence, Another Song for Europe will captivate Eurovision fans, critics, and scholars of popular music, popular culture, ethnomusicology, and European studies. This comprehensive exploration of Eurovision's musical heritage and cultural significance provides a deeper understanding of the contest's enduring appeal and its role in shaping the global musical landscape.
Dimension: 234 x 156 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780367626457
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