Publications

Publication details [#49064]

Christensen, Miyase and Christian Christensen. 2008. The After-Life of Eurovision 2003: Turkish and European Social Imaginaries and Ephemeral Communicative Space. Popular Communication 6 (3) : 155–172.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

culture | identity negotiation | international context | press | song

Place, Publisher

Routledge

Journal WWW

www.erlbaum.com/Journals/Electronic/elec

Annotation

This article explores and discusses how Turkey's victory in the 2003 Eurovision Song Contest was covered in the Turkish and the international press and to what extent a discursive space was created to deal with and debate the identity idea of Turkish “Europeanness” or “non-Europeanness”.