Performing the ‘New’ Europe

1. Introduction: Eurovision and the ‘New’ Europe
Karen Fricker, Milija Gluhovic

Part I. Feeling European: The Eurovision Song Contest and the European Public Sphere

2. ‘Sharing the Moment’: Europe, Affect, and Utopian Performatives in the Eurovision Song Contest
Marilena Zaroulia

3. ‘It’s Just Not Funny Any More’: Terry Wogan, Melancholy Britain, and the Eurovision Song Contest
Karen Fricker

4. Europe, with Feeling: The Eurovision Song Contest as Entertainment
Mari Pajala

5. ‘The Song Contest Is a Battlefield’: Panel Discussion with Eurovision Song Contest Broadcasters, 18 February 2011
Karen Fricker, Milija Gluhovic

Part II. European Margins and Multiple Modernities

6. Back to the Future: Imagining a New Russia at the Eurovision Song Contest
Yana Meerzon, Dmitri Priven

7. ‘Playing with Fire’ and Playing It Safe: With(out) Roma at the Eurovision Song Contest?
Ioana Szeman

8. From Dana to Dustin: The Reputation of Old/New Ireland and the Eurovision Song Contest
Brian Singleton

Part III. Gender Identities and Sexualities in the Eurovision Song Contest

9. Competing Femininities: A ‘Girl’ for Eurovision
Elaine Aston

10. Taken by a Stranger: How Queerness Haunts Germany at Eurovision
Peter Rehberg

11. Sing for Democracy: Human Rights and Sexuality Discourse in the Eurovision Song Contest
Milija Gluhovic

12. Conundrums of Post-Socialist Belonging at the Eurovision Song Contest
Katrin Sieg

Keywords: Cultural and Media Studies, Music, European Literature, Regional and Cultural Studies, Media Studies, European History, Arts