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Kind of a typical thread to our present this week: after the huge occasion in Marseille to welcome the arrival of the Olympic flame, time to show our gaze north for what’s additionally billed as one other « it’s a small world in spite of everything » feelgood celebration. Come in Malmö, host of the 2024 Eurovision Song Contest, that heart-shaped ode to kitsch the place pop contestants do battle with tremolos, glitter and kicks. But simply as politics bleeds into sports activities, it bleeds into music.
Security tight across the venue in southern Sweden amid calls by some to bar Israel’s contestant. While the ban on Russia after its invasion two years in the past was for probably the most half consensual, this name’s tearing aside aficionados. By the way in which…
It’s not simply when the voting’s by nation: when do rock anthems turn out to be nationwide anthems? Just how essential is music for propaganda and resistance? And are at this time’s artists any roughly voices for activism than their predecessors?
Produced by Alessandro Xenos, Rebecca Gnignati and Juliette Brown.
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