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Your Race Sounds Familiar?: Blackface, Cross-Racial/Cross-Gender Drag and the Your Face Sounds Familiar Franchise (2013–) on Post-Yugoslav Television

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dc.creatorBaker, Catherine
dc.date.accessioned2022-10-06T14:37:41Z
dc.date.available2022-10-06T14:37:41Z
dc.date.issued2021
dc.description.abstractYour Face Sounds Familiar, a celebrity talent television format developed by the Dutch production company Endemol and first broadcast in Spain in 2011, has entertained audiences in more than forty countries with the sight of well-known professional musicians impersonating foreign and domestic stars through cross-gender drag and, on many national editions, cross-racial drag, with results that would widely be regarded as offensive blackface where this has already been extensively challenged as racist in public. In central/south-east Europe, however, blackface is sometimes justified by arguing that it cannot be a racist practice because these countries have not had the UK and USA’s history of colonialism and racial oppression. Through a study of the Croatian edition Tvoje lice zvuči poznato (2014–), where until 2020 blackface had rarely been publicly challenged, this paper explores how far a critical race studies lens towards blackface can also be applied there.en
dc.identifier.doi10.18146/view.267
dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/18969
dc.identifier.urihttps://viewjournal.eu/articles/10.18146/view.267/
dc.identifier.urihttps://mediarep.org/handle/doc/20129
dc.languageeng
dc.publisherNetherlands Institute for Sound and Vision
dc.publisher.placeHilversum
dc.relation.isPartOfissn:2213-0969
dc.relation.ispartofseriesVIEW. Journal of European Television History and Culture
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
dc.subjectCroatiaen
dc.subjectgenderen
dc.subjectpopular musicen
dc.subjectraceen
dc.subjectreality televisionen
dc.subject.ddcddc:791
dc.titleYour Race Sounds Familiar?: Blackface, Cross-Racial/Cross-Gender Drag and the Your Face Sounds Familiar Franchise (2013–) on Post-Yugoslav Televisionen
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dc.type.statuspublishedVersion
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local.coverpage2022-10-06T16:51:56
local.identifier.firstpublishedhttp://doi.org/10.18146/view.267
local.source.epage103
local.source.issue20
local.source.issueTitleRace and European TV Histories
local.source.spage83
local.source.volume10

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