Lessons Learned: Teaching European Studies in full Eurovision

Abstract

The Eurovision Song Contest (ESC) has by now become well established as a subfield of academic enquiry in a rapidly expanding array of disciplines, ranging from international relations, history, media and communication studies, cultural studies, gender studies and ethnomusicology, among others. Rather surprisingly, however, this appreciation of the multifaceted nature of Eurovision has so far had little or no impact on curriculum development in formal teaching contexts in Europe (Cremona, The Eurovision Song Contest Within Formal Learning Contexts: A Critical Multimodal Interpretation of Possible Inter-Disciplinary Connections. Symposia Melitensia 14: 152, 2018). One might reasonably expect ..