The Eurovision Song Contest as a Cultural Phenomenon From Concert Halls to the Halls of Academia

Part I
From Lugano to the Classroom: The ESC and Academia

1. The Grand Tour: The Origins of the ESC as a Cultural Phenomenon
Dean Vuletic

2. The Eurovision Song Contest: An Academic Phenomenon
Antonio Obregón

3. A Human Rights-Based Analysis of the Eurovision Song Contest and the European Broadcasting Union
Adam Dubin

Part II
From Past to Present: History, Politics and Society

4. The Mythology of Song Contests
Ivan Raykoff

5. Teaching European History and Memory through Eurovision During the Covid-19 Pandemic
Alison Lewis and John Hajek

6. A March for Power: The Variety of Political Programs on the Eurovision Stage
Gad Yair and Chen Ozeri

7. The Molitva Factor: Eurovision and ‘Performing’ National Identity in World Politics
Catherine Baker

8. A Critical Pedagogical Eurovision Euphoria: The Potential of the Eurovision Song Contest to Promote Values Propagated by the European Union within Formal Learning Contexts
George Cremona

9. Sharing Values in the Eurovision Song Contest and OTI Festival: The Moral Fourth Person in the Lyrics of the Winning Songs
Ariel James

10. Eurovision in the Boardroom: What Does Voting Order Tell Us About Decision Making?
Jose Luis Arroyo-Barrigüete, Lourdes Fernández, Antonio Obregón

Part III
From Stage to Screen: Film, Media, and Music

11. High, Low, and Participatory: The Eurovision Song Contest and Cultural Studies
Jessica Carniel

12. Queer Camp Against Franco: Iván Zulueta’s Eurovision Song Contest Parody Un Dos Tres
Robert Tobin

13. The Eurovision Song Contest and European Television History: Continuity, Adaptation, Experimentation
Mari Pajala

14. From Trouble to Bubble? The Ambiguous Relationship between Professional Journalists and Fan Media in the Eurovision Song Contest
Irving Wolther

15. Domesticity, Mass Media, and Moving-Image Aesthetics: The Visual Identity of the Eurovision Song Contest as a Hospitable Platform
José Luis Panea

16. Armchair Researchers: Modes of Ethnographic Research for Understanding and Experiencing Eurovision
Chris Hay and Jessica Carniel

17. Between Concepts and Behaviors: The Eurovision Song Contest and Ethnomusicology
Sofia Vieira Lopes and João Soeiro de Carvalho

Biography

Adam Dubin is a human rights scholar and Assistant Professor of Law at Universidad Pontificia Comillas in Madrid, Spain, as well as an Adjunct Professor of Politics at New York University, USA. He is also a Senior Research Associate at the University of Johannesburg and a Visiting Professor at Southwest University of Politics and Law in China. His research focuses on human rights in sub-Saharan Africa, as well as on the intersection between human rights and pop culture.

Dean Vuletic is a Historian of Contemporary Europe based in the Research Center on the History of Transformations at the University of Vienna, Austria. The author of Postwar Europe and the Eurovision Song Contest (2018), he is the world's leading academic expert on the history of the ESC and he has taught the world's first university course on this topic. He is an internationally prominent media commentator and public speaker on the ESC, and further information about his work can be found on his website www.deanvuletic.com.

Antonio Obregón was formerly Vice Rector of Academic Affairs and Dean of the Faculty of Law at Universidad Pontificia Comillas. He is a Full Professor of Criminal Law and International Relations. He holds an undergraduate degree in Law and Business Administration and a PhD in Criminal Law. He designed and taught the first seminar in a Spanish university on the ESC and is a frequent commentator on it in the Spanish media.