Dear Colleagues,
I am please to announce the UK release of the latest Special Issue of Popular
Communication: The International Journal of Media and Culture, 6(3):
Euro Visions:
Culture, Identity and Politics in the Eurovision Song Contest
Featuring the following contributions
• ‘Why is the Eurovision Song Contest Ridiculous? Exploring a Spectacle of
Embarrassment, Irony and Identity’ by Stephen Coleman
• ‘“In the End, Germany will Always Resort to Hot Pants”: Watching Europe
Singing, Constructing the Stereotype’ by Myria Georgiou
• ‘The After-Life of Eurovision 2003: Turkish and European Social Imaginaries
and Ephemeral Communicative Space’ by Miyase Christensen and Christian
Christensen
• ‘Wild Dances and Dying Wolves: Simulation, Essentialization, and National
Identity at the Eurovision Song Contest’ by Catherine Baker
• ‘On the Couch with Europe: The Eurovision Song Contest, the European
Broadcast Union and Belonging on the Old Continent’ by Cornel Sandvoss
Electronic access to Popular Communication: The International Journal of
Media and Culture is free to all members of the Popular Communication Division
of the International Communication Association (ICA). To join ICA, visit
www.icahdq.org. Existing ICA Members can join the division by adding to their
division memberships at “My ICA”
Single copies of the Special Issue are available through Taylor and Francis.
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