Session 1: October 11 and 12 - Popular Music andTelevision as Historical Sources

Readings:

· Dean Vuletic, Postwar Europe and the Eurovision Song Contest (London. Bloomsbury, 2018), introduction.

· Andreas Fickers, “The Birth of Eurovision: Transnational Television as a Challenge for Europe and Contemporary Media Historiography,” in Transnational Television History: A Comparative Approach, eds. Andreas Fickers and Catherine Johnson (Abingdon, OX, and New York: Routledge, 2012): 13-32

· Catherine Armstrong, Using Non-Textual Sources: A Historian's Guide (London: Bloomsbury, 2015), chapters 2 and 3.

Session 2: November 8 and 9 - The Cold War

Readings:

· Michael Baumgartner, "Chanson, canzone, Schlager, and Song: Switzerland's Identity Struggle in the Eurovision Song Contest," in A Song for Europe: Popular Music and Politics in the Eurovision Song Contest, eds. Ivan Raykoff and Robert Deam Tobin (Aldershot, Hampshire, and Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2007), 37-48

· Simon Frith, "Euro Pop," Cultural Studies 3:2 (1989), 166-172

· Dean Vuletic, " The Intervision Song Contest: A Commercial and Pan-European Alternative to the Eurovision Song Contest”. In Beyond the Borders: Eastern European Pop-Rock as an International Phenomenon. Eds. Ewa Mazierska und Zsolt Győri (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019): 173-190

Session 3: December 13 and 14 - Post-1989

Readings:

· Vuletic, Postwar Europe and the Eurovision Song Contest, chapter 4

· Miyase Christensen and Christian Christensen, "The After-Life of Eurovision 2003: Turkish and European Social Imaginaries and Ephemeral Communicative

Space," Popular Communication: The International Journal of Media and Culture, 6:3 (2008), 155-172

· Milija Gluhovic, “Sing for Democracy: Human Rights and Sexuality Discourse in the Eurovision Song Contest,” in Performing the ‘New’ Europe: Identities, Feelings and Politics in the Eurovision Song Contest, eds. Karen Fricker and Milija Gluhovic (Basingstoke, Hampshire, and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013), 194-217

Assignment:

· Oral presentations