Welcome to Eurostralia: the strategic diversity of Australia at the Eurovision Song Contest
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Article Title | Welcome to Eurostralia: the strategic diversity of Australia at the Eurovision Song Contest |
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ERA Journal ID | 34681 |
Article Category | Article |
Authors | |
Author | Carniel, Jessica |
Journal Title | Continuum: Journal of Media and Cultural Studies |
Journal Citation | 31 (1), pp. 13-23 |
Number of Pages | 11 |
Year | 2017 |
Publisher | Taylor & Francis |
Place of Publication | Australia |
ISSN | 1030-4312 |
1469-3666 | |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.1080/10304312.2016.1262089 |
Web Address (URL) | http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10304312.2016.1262089 |
Abstract | Inclusion in the Eurovision Song Contest in 2014–2016 offered Australia an opportunity to display its national identity and cultural industry on a global stage. Concentrating its analysis on a comparison of the 2014 and 2015 performances, this article argues that Australia presented a strategic display of minority performers in order to showcase Australia’s professed multiculturalism. The Indigeneity and non-European ethnicities of Jessica Mauboy and Guy Sebastian are instrumental to the construction of a postcolonial and cosmopolitan Australian identity. Through these performances, Australia articulated a distinctive national image that appeals to the drive for ‘unity in diversity’ underpinning the Eurovision Song Contest and contemporary European political communities more broadly. This allows Australia to claim belonging within the global community that Eurovision seeks to foster, while also maintaining a sense of its national uniqueness. |
Keywords | Eurovision; multiculturalism; nationalism; geopolitics; cosmopolitanism; cultural diversity |
ANZSRC Field of Research 2020 | 440599. Gender studies not elsewhere classified |
470212. Multicultural, intercultural and cross-cultural studies | |
470210. Globalisation and culture | |
Public Notes | Files associated with this item cannot be displayed due to copyright restrictions. |
Byline Affiliations | School of Arts and Communication |
Institution of Origin | University of Southern Queensland |
https://research.usq.edu.au/item/q3x0v/welcome-to-eurostralia-the-strategic-diversity-of-australia-at-the-eurovision-song-contest
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