From Eurovision to Asiavision: the Eurovision Asia Song Contest and negotiation of Australia’s cultural identities
Citation
Source Title
Faculty
School
Collection
Abstract
Australia’s participation in the Eurovision Song Contest and involvement in the organisation of the Asian version of Eurovision (the Eurovision Asia Song Contest) through broadcaster SBS has been celebrated, questioned and criticised. In this article, I examine Australia’s role in the organisation of the Eurovision Asia Song Contest in the context of Australia’s relationship with the region, and what this reveals about Australia’s cultural identity and place in this Asia-Pacific region. If Eurovision was conceived as a post-war project to unify Europe, I argue that for the Eurovision Asia Song Contest to become a reality, it needs to have a framework that takes into account the region’s own historical, political and geo-political contexts rather than having a Eurocentric model imposed on it.
Related items
Showing items related by title, author, creator and subject.
-
Seal, Graham (2012)Over the last hundred years, Anzac Day (25 April), the anniversary of the initial landing of Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (ANZAC) at Gallipoli in 1915, has captured the Australian and New Zealand national ...
-
Beynon, D.; Datta, Sambit (2007)In contemporary Asia-Pacific societies, the notion of travel is often used as a theoretical aid to understand built environments. Theories of migration, cultural interaction and hybridity are employed to explain or speculate ...
-
Cox, Shaphan Leon (2012)The notion of space being eroded by time underpins the dominant formulations of globalisation premised on time-space compression. The consequences have included the announcement of the ‘end of geography’. More recently, ...