The nation on stage

Welcome back!

In these second blog posts, we are analyzing our country’s use of literary and visual (and potentially musical) devices in two consecutive Eurovision performances since 2009.

We’ll each conclude by briefly 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.

We've been asked to use the APA system for in-text citations and a full references list; if you find that a distraction, 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 February 28), so your thoughts are especially welcome.

Again, for your convenience, here are the links our individual country blog sites:

BALKAN:

ALB Albania | BIH Bosnia & Herzegovina | MKD FYR Macedonia | SRB Serbia

BALTIC:
EST Estonia | FIN Finland | LAT Latvia | LTU Lithuania

CAUCASUS/C.I.S.:
ARM Armenia | AZE Azerbaijan | GEO Georgia | RUS Russia

EASTERN:
BUL Bulgaria | GRE Greece | MDA Moldova | ROM Romania

CENTRAL:
AUT Austria | CZE Czech Republic | HUN Hungary | SLO Slovenia

About us

We are a band 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 all sorts of fields that have nothing to do with cultural or international studies, this course is quite a step outside the ordinary for us.