Gender, Geopolitics and Nationhood in the Eurovision Song Contest
- Dr. Catherine Baker
The ‘performances’ of national identity which occur through the Eurovision Song Contest have always had potential to reveal narratives about gender and geopolitics. Since the mid-2000s, debates about LGBTQ+ rights in central and eastern Europe have provided a particularly prominent frame for making sense of the politics of Eurovision. With Conchita Wurst’s famous victory now eight years old, this lecture asks how the relationships between gender, sexuality, nationhood and Europeanness we can perceive through Eurovision stand today. Hinweis: Veranstaltung findet in hybrider Form vor Ort statt.
Links zu den Videos: Kroatien 2006: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGp3YfEj_GY Serbien 2007: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FSueQN1QvV4 Österreich 2014: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SaolVEJEjV4 Russland 2021: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-Di9A28e5E Ukraine 2022: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8Z51no1TD0
- Dr. Catherine Baker
The ‘performances’ of national identity which occur through the Eurovision Song Contest have always had potential to reveal narratives about gender and geopolitics. Since the mid-2000s, debates about LGBTQ+ rights in central and eastern Europe have provided a particularly prominent frame for making sense of the politics of Eurovision. With Conchita Wurst’s famous victory now eight years old, this lecture asks how the relationships between gender, sexuality, nationhood and Europeanness we can perceive through Eurovision stand today. Hinweis: Veranstaltung findet in hybrider Form vor Ort statt.
Links zu den Videos: Kroatien 2006: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGp3YfEj_GY Serbien 2007: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FSueQN1QvV4 Österreich 2014: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SaolVEJEjV4 Russland 2021: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-Di9A28e5E Ukraine 2022: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8Z51no1TD0
- Part of series
- Von Gleichklang bis Disharmonie: Musik und Nation in Osteuropa (Osteuropa-Reihe HS 2022)
- Language
- English
- License
- http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
- Duration
- 1:18:57