"Hello Millstreet, Sarajevo Calling”
Body and Diaspora Through the Staging of the Eurovision Song Contest
Abstract
Confictve paradoxes that emerges from the Eurovision Song Contest since his creaton (1956), performed annually, generate a sort of identty fcton recently worked from feminisms or queer theory perspectves in Anglo-Saxon sphere. This way, this essay is conceived as a bet into polit-ical-aesthetcs of that apparently innocuous, anachronist, even kitsch, Song Contest because in “the act of point country-performance” it generates a key representaton dilemma in order to understand the cultural complexites of our tme through television. Hence, the two main lines of this paper: First, putng light into the rising interest of European margin countries during last years in a Contest at the beginning only “europeistc”, with all complexites derived from race, language, diaspora. Second, the presence of abject body (androgynous, lesbian, gay, transsex-ual, transgender, queer…) representng and, at the same tme, deconstructng naton idea as a glorious body, and with Butler, impermeable, opening a place for an identty multplicity that makes unique this TV live show combining music, geopolitcs and competton in pan-Europe but broadcasted in all over the World.
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