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Una Fiesta: Bringing the Sounds of Spain to Eurovision 2019

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In my previous blog post, and through further research, I summarized S pain’s national identity as mainly influenced by its history, religion, and language. In this blog post, I will be exploring the extent to which those elements are present in Spain’ s 2019 performance at Eurovision in Tel Aviv, Israel. “ La Venda ” Spain’s 2019 Eurovision entry “La Venda”, by artist Miki Núñez, is an upbeat party anthem that will surely make you want to dance along to the beat of the music. “La Venda” which translates to “The Blindfold” in English is a song about leaving prejudice behind and embracing the beautiful life that comes after that (Fuster, 2019). The theme/slogan for the 2019 Eurovision Song Contest (ESC) was “Dare to Dream”, celebrating inclusion, unity, and diversity making “La Venda” a fitting entry for that year’s Eurovision Song Contest (EBU, n.d.). In previous years, most of Spain’s ESC entries have mostly been sung in Spanish, Spain’s na...
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Spain’s National Identity (Revised)

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     National identity is a concept that may inspire different conceptual meanings for different people. From my understanding, national identity can be defined as a sense of belonging among a distinctive group of people who share similar commonalities such as history, culture, language, and religion. This bond between people is not only formed by what they have in common but also what they don’t have in common when compared to other nations. It is when comparing the national characteristics of nations that you can begin to identify the differences in history, culture, language, religion, and other commonalities shared by a nation that distinguish national identity.      This personal definition of national identity was influenced by and expands on the definitions of many previous authors ’. For example, Anna Triandafyllidou ’s definition of national identity includes a perspective that she noted that other definitions did not inclu...
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3 Minute Introduction to Spain

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Hi everyone! This is a three minute narrated briefing on Spain as a country and briefly about their run in Eurovision. Hope you learn something new!
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Welcome!

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¡Hola todos! Welcome to my blog about the Eurovision Song Contest! In this blog, I will be focusing on Spain's participation in this unique song contest. I decided to focus on Spain because I have a little bit of knowledge of the culture and the language, so I thought it would be interesting to explore that through the lens of the Eurovision Song Contest. I don't know too much about Eurovision or Spain's involvement in this song contest, however, I am excited to learn more about it and share what I have learned with you!  Watch  last year's performance by Blas Cantó, "Voy a Quedarme" Read more about it here .
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