The Eurovision Song Contest (ESC) is more than a musical event that ostensibly “unites European people” through music. It is a spectacle: a performative eve

The world's largest and longest-running song competition, the Eurovision Song Contest is a significant and extremely popular media event throughout the continen

This book presents the first in-depth study of the Eurovision Song Contest from an Australian perspective. Using a cultural studies approach, the study draws to

This fascinating and lively volume makes the case that the Eurovision Song Contest is an arena for European identification in which both national solidarity and

This book uses the Eurovision Song Contest (ESC), as an analytical entry point to understand and illuminate post-War Europe and the drive to create an identity