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Behind the Politics: Musicians and their view of Eurovision Song Contest

Since independence, actually since 1993, Croatia is a regular member of the Eurovision Song Contest. Musicians who participates at the ESC are winners of the festival Dora, an annual event organized by the national public broadcaster Hrvatska radio televizija [Croatian Radio-Television]. During last 15 years, European public could here female and male singers and groups, singing in Croatian and in English, mostly love pop songs (except the song “ Don’ t ever cry” in 1993) in various arrangements, very similar to the songs from other countries. In this paper I will shift the focus from collective to the individual. I will try to answer some questions concerning music, media and nation from musician’ s point of view: do they think about winning and representing Croatia as a nation when they apply a song for the national contest? Do they think „ nationally“ or „ popularly“ ? How they show „ Croatian nationality“ in songs? Do they feel the need to show it at all? Or do they take a song which shows their musical qualities the best? What is more important for them: music, show or politics? And how strong is performer’ s role in the final decision about the stage performance at the ESC?

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