The European Broadcasting Union (EBU) is striving to give the Eurovision Song Contest a non-political image. However, this year it has not been particularly successful in separating the entertainment show from world politics.
In this episode of the SZ podcast “Auf den Punkt”, musicologist Saskia Jaszoltowski discusses why the EBU is so keen to do this. Her research focuses on the extent to which politics features in the ESC. Is the Eurovision Song Contest more of a political stage or simply a huge pop culture machine?
Read the article and listen to the podcast on the Süddeutsche Zeitung website