Understanding the Eurovision Song Contest in Multicultural Australia We Got Love /

• Main Author: Carniel, Jessica (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Pivot, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: Music.; Popular Culture.; Ethnology-Europe.; Culture.; Australasia.; Popular Culture .; European Culture.; Australasian Culture.

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 together fan interviews and surveys with media and textual analysis of the contest itself. In doing so, it begins to answer the question of wh...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1 - Introduction
• Chapter 2 - A tale of two broadcasters: the EBU and SBS
• Chapter 3 - Aussie-fying Eurovision: local commentary as media interpolation
• Chapter 4 - Part of the party: celebrating Eurovision together
• Chapter 5 - 'We're a nation of proud multicultural dags': multiculturalism and viewer identities
• Chapter 6 - From Mr Eurovision to Australian Idols: Australian performances (and performing Australia)
• Chapter 7 - "Every region of the world should have a -Vision": Eurovision in the Asian century
• Chapter 8 - Epilogue.