Beyond Reykjavík 101: Iceland’s popular music mainstream and the Eurovision song contest
‘Everything changes in Iceland when Eurovision is on, and you don’t understand it but that’s the way it is’ (music documentary producer, 2010). Taking the above comment as a starting point, this chapter explores the place of the Eurovision Song Contest in Iceland’s musical landscape. Drawing on inte...
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ftgriffithuniv:oai:research-repository.griffith.edu.au:10072/388862 2024-06-09T07:46:58+00:00 Beyond Reykjavík 101: Iceland’s popular music mainstream and the Eurovision song contest Baker, Sarah 2019 http://hdl.handle.net/10072/388862 unknown Equinox Sounds Icelandic: Essays on Icelandic Music in the 20th and 21st Centuries Baker, S, Beyond Reykjavík 101: Iceland’s popular music mainstream and the Eurovision song contest. In Sounds Icelandic: Essays on Icelandic Music in the 20th and 21st Centuries, 2019, pp. 86-100. https://www.equinoxpub.com/home/view-chapter/?id=24104 http://hdl.handle.net/10072/388862 9781781791455 Self-archiving is not yet supported by this publisher. Please refer to the publisher's website or contact the author(s) for more information. open access Cultural studies popular music Eurovision Iceland Book chapter 2019 ftgriffithuniv 2024-05-14T23:45:17Z ‘Everything changes in Iceland when Eurovision is on, and you don’t understand it but that’s the way it is’ (music documentary producer, 2010). Taking the above comment as a starting point, this chapter explores the place of the Eurovision Song Contest in Iceland’s musical landscape. Drawing on interviews undertaken in the capital of Reykjavik with 36 music industry workers, the chapter sets out to examine how the nation navigates and experiences a competition that is so divergent from the ‘left-field pop music’ for which Iceland is internationally renowned. To come to some understanding of why ‘everything changes in Iceland when Eurovision is on’, the chapter considers two different positions that emerged in the interviews. The first of these relates to what participation in Eurovision offers the Icelandic music industry, while the second concerns the pleasure of participation for viewers. In doing so the chapter highlights a number of ways in which Iceland’s Eurovision entries become a meaningful part of Icelandic culture and social life. No Full Text Book Part Iceland Reykjavík Reykjavík Griffith University: Griffith Research Online Reykjavík |
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‘Everything changes in Iceland when Eurovision is on, and you don’t understand it but that’s the way it is’ (music documentary producer, 2010). Taking the above comment as a starting point, this chapter explores the place of the Eurovision Song Contest in Iceland’s musical landscape. Drawing on interviews undertaken in the capital of Reykjavik with 36 music industry workers, the chapter sets out to examine how the nation navigates and experiences a competition that is so divergent from the ‘left-field pop music’ for which Iceland is internationally renowned. To come to some understanding of why ‘everything changes in Iceland when Eurovision is on’, the chapter considers two different positions that emerged in the interviews. The first of these relates to what participation in Eurovision offers the Icelandic music industry, while the second concerns the pleasure of participation for viewers. In doing so the chapter highlights a number of ways in which Iceland’s Eurovision entries become a meaningful part of Icelandic culture and social life. No Full Text |
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Sounds Icelandic: Essays on Icelandic Music in the 20th and 21st Centuries Baker, S, Beyond Reykjavík 101: Iceland’s popular music mainstream and the Eurovision song contest. In Sounds Icelandic: Essays on Icelandic Music in the 20th and 21st Centuries, 2019, pp. 86-100. https://www.equinoxpub.com/home/view-chapter/?id=24104 http://hdl.handle.net/10072/388862 9781781791455 |
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