In Empire of tune: Europe and country within the Eurovision tune Contest, members interpret the ESC as a musical “mediascape” and mega-event that has variously played and plays the altering visions of the eu undertaking. in the course of the examine of the cultural politics of the ESC, members talk about the ways that song operates as a dynamic nexus for making nationwide identities and eu sensibilities, producing strategies of “assimilation” or “integration,” and defining the prestigious concept of the “European citizen” in an international context. students within the quantity additionally discover the methods otherness and distinction are produced, spectacularized, challenged, or perhaps ignored within the televised musical realities of the ESC. For the contributing authors, track serves as a website for constituting Europe and the country, on- and offstage. background and politics, in addition to the consistent creation of eu subjectivities, are sounded in song. The Eurovision track is a transferring realm the place previous and new states think their pasts, query their offers, and envision excellent futures within the New Europe.

Essays in Empire of Song undertake theoretical and epistemological orientations of their exploration of “popular song” inside of ethnomusicology and significant musicology, wondering the assumption of “Europe” and the “nation” via and in tune, at a time while the eu self seems extra fragmented, if now not fullyyt shattered. Bringing jointly ethnomusicology, tune experiences, background, social anthropology, feminist thought, linguistics, media ethnography, postcolonial thought, comparative literature, and philosophy, Empire of Song will curiosity scholars and students in an unlimited array of disciplines.