Don't Tell Philip Bohlman

There's a whole website devoted to the 54th Annual Eurovision song contest on the New York Times. Eurovision, for those of you who aren't familiar with it, is a huge celebration of national identity, nationalism, and pop music. It's like "American Idol" avant la lettre. A few of us here are pretty amused that a certain ethnomusicologist at the University of Chicago seems to be moderately obsessed with Eurovision, writing about it here, here, and in one of his columns in the SEM newsletter. At least, those are the places we've tracked down thus far. There could be more out there.