This essay aims to analyse how media globalisation shapes our identity and sense of belonging in the world today. In particular, this essay will focus on Australia’s involvement in The Eurovision Song Contest, otherwise known as Eurovision, discuss how it’s participation is placed via media flows as discussed by Thussu, and finally how media globalisation causes Australia to be represented in new ways.
Eurovision acts as a platform that effectively allows Australians to showcase their culture and identity, strengthening their sense of belonging in the world.
This is a result of media globalisation and transnationalising audiences emerging in a globalised society today. Media globalisation is a phenomenon that causes us to be understood
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As a non-European country, arguments have been raised with regards to Australia’s involvement and inclusion in Eurovision and how it defines the nation as a whole. As a member of the EBU, Australia qualified to be a participate in Eurovision. Even with its geographical distance, in relation to the European immigration and colonisation, Australia does encompass cultural similarities with Europe (Carniel, 2017).
The different ways Australia participated and engaged with Eurovision throughout the years further demonstrates the transnationalising of Australian audiences. In 1975, Australia first began to engage Eurovision by inviting Europeans onto an Australian stage. This took place when 1974 Eurovision champions, Swedish pop group ABBA’s music appeared on Countdown, an Australian music television show in 1975.
Australia made an appearance again in Eurovision in 2014, when Jessica Mauboy, an indigenous artist was invited as a guest performer during the contest’s intermission. By placing an Australian representative on an European stage, it was another step to engage Eurovision as a part of a broader transnational audience, rather than solely an Australian audience.
Following Mauboy’s performance, the year 2015 was Australia’s first official Eurovision entry as a contestant. Malaysian-born Australian singer Guy Sebastian’s performance was intentionally supposed to be a
The second song I studied was True Blue by John Williamson (1981) and I noticed that it is highlighting the nationalism feeling, the Australian costume of spend their free time in family and the Australian companionship. Relating to the song as a piece of music, I can say after listening it this is one of my favourite Australian songs, even though is quite slow for me. The images in the video are lovely, insomuch they show how in Australia children live full of happiness, your friends are there when you need them, there are lots of associations and how Australian people is hardworking and loyal.
Australia is a very culturally diverse country, meaning that it consists of many cultures and ethnicities from around the world. This diversity is mostly due to immigration,
We can presume from the numerous emphasized lines indicating Australia’s uniqueness, that the distinctiveness of Australia is the main reason for the persona’s perplexing attachment and love for her country.
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Present day Australia is met with the issue of outlining a sense of a nationwide community, after the breakdown of the British race patriot idea in the mid-1960s with the introduction of multiculturalism. The Euro-centric perception of Australia was annulled and it was incapable in playing a significant part in Australian policies and priorities. It triggered a calamity of national identity and meaning. The credence that Australian’s were apart of Britain, united by history, tradition and blood needed to be revised. A people who had recognized themselves so strongly with the British race now had to accede their race awareness and apprehend the notion of being a now multicultural society. The dawn of multiculturalism also provoked a quandary for balancing a respect of the British heritage with the abating relevance of the British connection and to construct a new language of community from the residues of the old British ways.
Australia is a young, modern country made up of a diverse and multicultural population, therefore, it’s difficult to say that it has a single national identity. This essay will examine what Australia’s identity may look like, specifically, through art.
There are many diverse interpretations of the words “Australian Identity”. The national anthem, as evidenced in Stand Up, is a primarily white interpretation of Australia and the Australian identity, with many of the lines ignoring the Indigenous people of Australia (Perkins et al, 2012). Another form of the “Australian Identity” was one presented by Prime Minister Paul Keating in his Redfern Address in 1992. He proclaimed that “Australia is a first-rate social democracy…truly the land of the fair go and the better chance”. This idea presented represents an egalitarian society, where every single human has an equal opportunity at life. Yet another, shown in the songs Paul Kelly sang, but especially in “this land is mine” is the difference between the identity of Indigenous Australians and non-Indigenous Australians (Kelly et al, 2001). Each of these texts addressed a major issue. Stand Up compared the relative value of tradition and the right to freedom of expression. Keating’s speech expressed the need for justice and recognition of both the stolen generation and the injustices done to the Indigenous people as a whole. Kelly’s songs represent the importance of the land to Indigenous people and why the “returning of the land” is so important. Although they each mentioned a major issue, the texts all gave solutions to these issues, from reiterating the importance of the basic human right of freedom of speech in Stand Up, to explaining the role and qualities of the Aboriginal
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In 1984, Peter McCormick’s “Advance Australia Fair” officially became Australia’s national anthem. A song we proudly sing both on Anzac Day and Australia Day, with our hand’s on our heart. Should we be proud to sing a song about absolute lies? “Australians all let us rejoice, For we are young and free”, it took aboriginals over 60 years to be recognized as human beings, let alone Australians, they were anything but free. “For those who’ve come across the seas, we’ve boundless plains to share”, that whole sentence is a lie, we have stopped the boats, we don't want to share our boundless plains. We lock up our immigrants in Detention Centers, replicating that of cages. All of us here are living a free life and a safe life and for the majority of us, it is our reality and has been since the day we were born. I’m
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This analysis of ‘Festival Overture on Australian Themes’ written by Colin Brumby in 1981; will use the knowledge of the musical elements to explore how Brumby has created each of the characters in ‘Festival Overture on Australian Themes’ and how all of the themes in the piece have been linked together to create the work.
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