In these second blog posts, we’re exploring the identities that represent our countries on the Eurovision stage in three consecutive performances since 2009, and the literary and visual (and potentially musical) devices by which those identities are expressed.
We’ll each conclude by evaluating what these performances suggest about our country’s attitudes to the many facets of diversity.
So, for example, this means we could be considering: language choices; lyrics; metaphors; musical genres; storytelling; symbolism and imagery; visual devices and staging; and the extent to which our country appears homo- or heterogeneous across these three performances in a row. (But we do have a tight limit of just 1,500 words [give or take 10 percent]!)
We've been asked to use the APA system for in-text citations and a full references list; some people find these a bit disruptive, so we suggest you skip over those parenthetical references as best you can.
We DO value your feedback! Please leave your constructive comments at the end of our posts. For this second blog post, we again have the option of revising the text based on feedback (by March 8), so your thoughts are especially welcome.
All the songs we're analyzing can be viewed via this YouTube playlist (opens new window)
For people viewing in the USA, 2016 and 2017 performances aren't available online, so you'll need to check out the DVDs instead.)
Again, for your convenience, here are the links our individual country blog sites:
BLR Belarus | BEL Belgium (updated) | BUL Bulgaria | CRO Croatia (updated) | CYP Cyprus | DEN Denmark | GEO Georgia | GRE Greece | HUN Hungary | ISL Iceland | ISR Israel | LAT Latvia | MDA Moldova | MNE Montenegro | NOR Norway | POR Portugal (updated) | SRB Serbia (updated) | ESP Spain (updated) | TUR Turkey
About us
We are a group of first-year undergraduates who are learning about Eurovision (in most cases for the first time ever) through a humanities inquiry seminar as part of the Core Curriculum at Seattle University in Seattle, Washington, USA.We’ll be continuing our studies in fields like environmental studies, finance, computer science, film studies, psychology, Asian studies, and biochemistry, so for most of us, this course is quite a step outside the ordinary.
