{"id":290,"date":"2012-06-04T19:33:17","date_gmt":"2012-06-04T19:33:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/rtobin\/?p=290"},"modified":"2012-06-04T20:00:54","modified_gmt":"2012-06-04T20:00:54","slug":"a-song-for-europe-popular-music-and-politics-in-the-eurovision-song-contest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/rtobin\/books\/a-song-for-europe-popular-music-and-politics-in-the-eurovision-song-contest\/","title":{"rendered":"A Song for Europe: Popular Music and Politics in the Eurovision Song Contest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-348\" title=\"Song for Europe\" src=\"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/154\/2012\/06\/Song-for-Europe.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"220\" height=\"300\" \/>One of the first English-language academic studies of the Eurovision Song Contest, this collection of essays provides analyses of the televised pop music competition in Finland, Germany, Holland, Israel, Lithuania, Russia, Switzerland, Turkey, and the former Yugoslavia, as well as comparative studies with Arab and Japanese song competitions. The collection includes musicological, linguistic and psychoanalytic studies as well as studies that focus on race and sexuality in the competition. This book urges its readers to take seriously a pop phenomenon that has too often been dismissed as, at best, pure entertainment.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>with Ivan Raykoff,\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">A Song for Europe: Popular Music and Politics in the Eurovision Song Contest.<\/span> Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2007.<\/p>\n<p>Reviews:\u00a0Terra\u00a0120.2 [2008], 129-130;\u00a0Popular Music and Society\u00a031.5 [December 2008], 700-703;\u00a0Popular Music\u00a027 [2008], 498-501;\u00a0Choice\u00a044.11 [July 2007];\u00a0Lied und popul\u00e4re Kultur\u00a054 [2009], 439-441; H-Soz-u-Kult, H-Net Reviews [January 2010] ;\u00a0International Review of the Aesthetics and Sociology of Music\u00a041.1 [2010], 141-46.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the first English-language academic studies of the Eurovision Song Contest, this collection of essays provides analyses of the televised pop music competition in Finland, Germany, Holland, Israel, Lithuania, Russia, Switzerland, Turkey, and the former Yugoslavia, as well as &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/rtobin\/books\/a-song-for-europe-popular-music-and-politics-in-the-eurovision-song-contest\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A Song for Europe: Popular Music and Politics in the Eurovision Song Contest<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":172,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12135,12139],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-edited-book"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/rtobin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/rtobin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/rtobin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/rtobin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/172"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/rtobin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/rtobin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/rtobin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/rtobin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/rtobin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}