“Everyway that I can”: Auto-Orientalism at Eurovision 2003

Gumpert, Matthew

doi:10.4324/9781315097732-13

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“…The ESC is perceived as the main opportunity to show Europe what the country is about. Therefore, nation-branding through the contest is in line with Ukraine (Baker 2008), Turkey (Grumpert 2007), or even socialist Yugoslavia (Vuletic 2007).…”

Section: The Eurovision Song Contest and Moldovamentioning

confidence: 99%

Eurovision song contest and identity crisis in Moldova

Iglesias

2015

Natl. pap.

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The Eurovision Song Contest (ESC) was created for strengthening the development of a European soul. But generally speaking, one can say it has been used as a tool for nation-branding, and as a means for Central and Eastern countries to “return” to Europe, in particular after the fall of their Communist regimes. In the difficult social, economic, political, and historical context of the Republic of Moldova nowadays, the ESC furthermore allows the discursive construction of the nation and the building of a particular self. Accordingly, based on a method inspired by the Critical Discourse Analysis methodology applied to three local newspapers, the research demonstrates how the ESC acts as a sound box when building the Moldovan self. The Moldovan identity that emerges from the articles seems to be an identity in crisis which proves much different from the usual political constructions of the nation. This bottom-up identity put forward by journalists has indeed to be related to the twofold crisis in which Moldova is at the moment: social and economic, on the one hand, and linked to a permanent struggle between a separate Moldovan or an integrated Romanian identity, on the other.

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Section: The Eurovision Song Contest and Moldovamentioning

confidence: 99%

Eurovision song contest and identity crisis in Moldova

Iglesias

2015

Natl. pap.

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“Everyway that I can”: Auto-Orientalism at Eurovision 2003

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Eurovision song contest and identity crisis in Moldova

Eurovision song contest and identity crisis in Moldova

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