Georgiou, Myria 
ORCID: 0000-0001-8771-8469
(2008)
“In the end, Germany will always resort to hot pants”: watching Europe singing, constructing the stereotype.
Popular Communication, 6 (3).
141 -154.
ISSN 1540-5702
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Abstract
The Eurovision Song Contest (ESC) is an annual popular music event that attracts millions of people who consume it with enthusiasm, irony, humor, but also sometimes with anger. The contest has been increasingly dressed with numerous stereotypes about the nation, Europe, and cultural difference. This paper looks at two different groups of ESC audiences in the UK and analyzes their engagement with the event and the stereotypes around it. The first audience group consists of participants in the BBC Online Forum debates and the second group consists of committed Eurovision audience members participating in focus group discussions. Findings show that the stereotype becomes a powerful, political, yet ambivalent, tool in making sense of cultural difference.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Official URL: | http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/HPPC |
| Additional Information: | © 2008 Taylor & Francis Group |
| Divisions: | Media and Communications |
| Subjects: | M Music and Books on Music > M Music P Language and Literature > PN Literature (General) > PN1990 Broadcasting |
| Date Deposited: | 19 Nov 2009 12:43 |
| Last Modified: | 13 Sep 2024 22:27 |
| URI: | http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/25636 |
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