| Abstract | The aim of this paper is to examine the construction/recycling of national identities primarily through the participation of Serbia (and Montenegro) at the Eurovision Song Contests 2004-2008. First, the performances of this country's representatives at the Eurovision Song Contest will be examined, emphasising the aspects that contribute to the popularity of the songs chosen to represent the nation and the state. All those elements reinvent a picture of the past in its lived totality, managing to reawaken the sense of the supposedly idyllic national past associated with them. In this manner of (re-)creating identity, the recycling of memory and imagined tradition, but also references to European cultural, media and political spheres, have great symbolic weight. The second part will offer a discourse analysis of media coverage of the performance of the country as a host of the Eurovision Song Contest. It is shown how the notion of 'the new face of Serbia' is supposed to balance different, sometimes even confronted cultural markers present in concurrent identity strategies in Serbia. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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'Accession Number: 49086025; Mitrovic, Marijana 1; Affiliation: 1: Ethnographic Institute of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Belgrade/Department of Ethnology and Anthropology, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade, Serbia; Source Info: Apr2010, Vol. 17 Issue 2, p171; Subject Term: NATIONAL characteristics, Serbian; Subject Term: COLLECTIVE memory; Subject Term: COMPETITION, International; Subject Term: NATIONALISM; Subject Term: SOCIAL aspects; Subject Term: SERBIA; Author-Supplied Keyword: Europe; Author-Supplied Keyword: Eurovision Song Contest; Author-Supplied Keyword: national identity; Author-Supplied Keyword: Serbia; Reviews & Products: EUROVISION Song Contest (TV program); Number of Pages: 15p; Document Type: Article'
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