‘New face of Serbia’ at the Eurovision Song Contest: international media spectacle and national identityFootnote1

 1. This paper is a part of the project Serbia in between traditionalism and modernisation: ethnological and anthropological studies of cultural processes 147020, financed by the Serbian Ministry of Science and Technological Development.

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