Dr Catherine Baker Catherine.Baker@hull.ac.uk
Reader in 20th Century History
"If love was a crime, we would be criminals": the Eurovision Song Contest and the queer international politics of flags
Baker, Catherine
Authors
Contributors
Julia Kalman
Editor
Ben Wellings
Editor
Keshia Jacotine
Editor
Abstract
Baker uses contestations over flags at the Eurovision Song Contest to illustrate the paradox that, while Eurovision is ostensibly ‘non-political’ and prohibits ‘political’ messages and symbols, organisers, hosts, broadcasters, contestants and fans have regularly articulated narratives of European and national identity using performance, participation and commentary, thus engaging in politicized contentions over meanings and boundaries of European belonging. In 2015–16, several controversies about the display of regional, rainbow and disputed flags during Eurovision broadcasts exposed contestations over how producers, journalists, fans and casual viewers understood the boundaries of ‘the political’ in international competition. Baker concludes this revealed that Eurovision’s supposedly transnational public sphere was still officially conceived state-centrically and in ways that separated sexual and gender ‘diversity’ from politicized LGBT rights claims.
Citation
Baker, C. (2019). "If love was a crime, we would be criminals": the Eurovision Song Contest and the queer international politics of flags. In J. Kalman, B. Wellings, & K. Jacotine (Eds.), Eurovisions: Identity and the international politics of the Eurovision Song Contest since 1956 (175-200). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-9427-0_9
Online Publication Date | Nov 20, 2019 |
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Publication Date | 2019 |
Deposit Date | May 9, 2019 |
Publicly Available Date | Nov 26, 2021 |
Publisher | Palgrave Macmillan |
Pages | 175-200 |
Book Title | Eurovisions: Identity and the international politics of the Eurovision Song Contest since 1956 |
ISBN | 9789811394270; 9789811394263 |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-9427-0_9 |
Keywords | Eurovision Song Contest; Flags; LGBTQ; Nationalism; Pride |
Public URL | https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/1762217 |
Publisher URL | https://www.palgrave.com/gp/book/9789811394263 |
Contract Date | May 3, 2019 |
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