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Episode 16: Eurovision: Music, Kitsch, and Politics with James Evans and Yuval Weber

Episode 16: Eurovision: Music, Kitsch, and Politics with James Evans and Yuval Weber

Update: 2017-09-15

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Politics increasingly pervades our everyday lives, including our entertainment and pop culture. The Eurovision Song Contest was created in 1956 as an opportunity to bring nations and people together in an expressly non-political fashion—through song. Now, 60 years later, Eurovision is often used as a specific political tool. James Evans and Yuval Weber discuss the history of the song contest and how it has been used as a political tool to reignite recent conflagration between Ukraine and Russia.

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Episode 16: Eurovision: Music, Kitsch, and Politics with James Evans and Yuval Weber

Episode 16: Eurovision: Music, Kitsch, and Politics with James Evans and Yuval Weber

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