'Antes cursi que sencilla': Eurovision Song Contests and the Kitsch Drive to Euro-Unity

Allatson, P

'Antes cursi que sencilla': Eurovision Song Contests and the Kitsch Drive to Euro-Unity

Allatson, P

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Publisher:: Routledge
Publication Type:: Journal Article
Citation:: Culture, Theory and Critique, 2007, 48 (1), pp. 87 - 98
Issue Date:: 2007-01

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dc.contributor.author	Allatson, P https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2248-1605	en_US
dc.date.issued	2007-01	en_US
dc.identifier.citation	Culture, Theory and Critique, 2007, 48 (1), pp. 87 - 98	en_US
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dc.description.abstract	This essay proposes that kitsch, in this instance the kitsch exemplified by the musical and sartorial look, sound and feel of Eurovision Song Contests (ESC), may not only influence the popular appeal of the current European-unity project, but provide that project with its governing aesthetic and imaginary. Indeed, noting that the ESC has been more inclusive than, and arguably ahead of, the parallel economic and political movement to European union in the post-World War II era, the essay proposes an aesthetic reclamation of kitsch as a socio-political and intercultural avant garde that avoids ethno-national conflict. The essay argues that unlike the historical-material spaces in which creolisation emerges, the Euro kitsch-drive enables disparate peoples to enter a mass-mediated kinship group in a networked zone of peace and superficial familiarity.	en_US
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Abstract:

This essay proposes that kitsch, in this instance the kitsch exemplified by the musical and sartorial look, sound and feel of Eurovision Song Contests (ESC), may not only influence the popular appeal of the current European-unity project, but provide that project with its governing aesthetic and imaginary. Indeed, noting that the ESC has been more inclusive than, and arguably ahead of, the parallel economic and political movement to European union in the post-World War II era, the essay proposes an aesthetic reclamation of kitsch as a socio-political and intercultural avant garde that avoids ethno-national conflict. The essay argues that unlike the historical-material spaces in which creolisation emerges, the Euro kitsch-drive enables disparate peoples to enter a mass-mediated kinship group in a networked zone of peace and superficial familiarity.

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