1/2: The Eurovision Song Contest - Campy, Chaotic and Completely Serious

About this episode

The episode discusses the similarities between the Eurovision Song Contest and soccer, highlighting its cultural and political aspects.

Eurovision has many things that soccer does - underdogs, spectacular collapses, bloc loyalties, political scores settled through performance, and a continent watching the same spectacle at the same time. And this year, the Eurovision Song Contest, a live-for-TV music contest with continent-wide public voting, is happening in Vienna, this coming weekend. Why there? Austria won it last year. Here is a primer of, a short debate about, and a quiz about the Song Contest. And an outlook on how this...

People in this episode

Host: Philipp Gollner

Topics covered

• Eurovision
• soccer
• politics
• performance
• culture

Keywords

• Eurovision
• soccer
• political scores
• public voting
• Austria
• performance
• culture

Mentioned in this episode

Places: Vienna, Austria

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