@Book{517697327, editor="Raykoff, Ivan and Tobin, Robert Deam", title="Song for Europe: Popular Music and Politics in the Eurovision Song Contest", series="Ashgate popular and folk music series", year="2007", publisher="Ashgate", address="Aldershot, Hants, England", keywords="Popular music; Competitions; Europe; Political aspects; Grand Prix Eurovision de la Chanson; Europa; Politik; Soziologie", contents="the cultural significance of musical change in the Eurovision Song Contest / Alf Bj{\"o}rnberg -- Eurovision at 50 : post-Wall and post Stonewall / Robert Deam Tobin -- Chanson, canzone, schlager, and song : Switzerland's identity struggle in the Eurovision Song Contest / Michael Baumgartner -- Chasing the ``magic formula'' for success : Ralph Siegel and the Grand Prix Eurovision de la Chanson / Thorsten Hindrichs -- Fernando, Filippo, and Milly : bringing blackness to the Eurovision stage / Lutgard Mutsaers -- Finland, zero points : nationality, failure, and shame in the Finnish media / Mari Pajala -- The socialist star : Yugoslavia, cold war politics and the Eurovision song contest / Dean Vuletic -- Lithuanian contests and European dreams / Bjorn Ingvoldstad -- Russian body and soul : t.A.T.u. performs at Eurovision 2003 / Dana Heller -- Gay brotherhood : Israeli gay men and the Eurovision song contest / Dafna Lemish -- Articulating the historical moment : Turkey, Europe, and Eurovision 2003 / Thomas Solomon -- ``Everyway that I can'' : auto-orientalism at Eurovision 2003 / Matthew Gumpert -- Idol thoughts : nationalism in the pan-Arab vocal competition Superstar / Katherine Meizel -- Changing Japan, unchanging Japan : shifting visions of the red and white song contest / Shelley D. Brunt", abstract="Camping on the borders of Europe / Ivan Raykoff -- Return to ethnicity : the cultural significance of musical change in the Eurovision Song Contest / Alf Bj{\"o}rnberg -- Eurovision at 50 : post-Wall and post Stonewall / Robert Deam Tobin -- Chanson, canzone, schlager, and song : Switzerland's identity struggle in the Eurovision Song Contest / Michael Baumgartner -- Chasing the ``magic formula'' for success : Ralph Siegel and the Grand Prix Eurovision de la Chanson / Thorsten Hindrichs -- Fernando, Filippo, and Milly : bringing blackness to the Eurovision stage / Lutgard Mutsaers -- Finland, zero points : nationality, failure, and shame in the Finnish media / Mari Pajala -- The socialist star : Yugoslavia, cold war politics and the Eurovision Song Contest / Dean Vuletic -- Lithuanian contests and European dreams / Bjorn Ingvoldstad -- ``Russian body and soul'' : t.A.T.u. performs at Eurovision 2003 / Dana Heller -- Gay brotherhood : Israeli gay men and the Eurovision Song Contest / Dafna Lemish -- Articulating the historical moment : Turkey, Europe, and Eurovision 2003 / Thomas Solomon -- ``Everyway that I can'' : auto-orientalism at Eurovision 2003 / Matthew Gumpert -- Idol thoughts : nationalism in the pan-Arab vocal competition Superstar / Katherine Meizel -- ``Changing Japan, unchanging Japan'' : shifting visions of the Red and White Song Contest / Shelley D. Brunt", note="edited by Ivan Raykoff and Robert Deam Tobin", note="Includes bibliographical references", isbn="9780754658788", language="English" }