Eurovision song contest and identity crisis in Moldova

Bibliographic Data

ID11047696
AuthorsJulien Danero Iglesias (Université Libre de Bruxelles, corresponding author)
Year2015
Volume43
Issue2
Pages233-247
Publication date2015-03-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueNationalities Papers (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0090-5992 • E-ISSN: 1465-3923
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1080/00905992.2014.993957
OpenAlexW2068670786
LanguageEN
Citations received5
References cited34

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

Aesthetics · Art · Communism · CONTEST · Context (archaeology · Identity (music · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Romanian · Sociology · European and International Law Studies · Gender Studies · History · Law · Post-Soviet Geopolitical Dynamics · Soviet and Russian History

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