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- Title
YOUR RACE SOUNDS FAMILIAR? BLACKFACE, CROSS-RACIAL/CROSS-GENDER DRAG AND THE YOUR FACE SOUNDS FAMILIAR FRANCHISE (2013-) ON POST-YUGOSLAV TELEVISION.
- Authors
Baker, Catherine
- Abstract
Your 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 a nd 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.
- Subjects
TELEVISION; SOUNDS; REALITY television programs; RACISM; LICE; TELEVISION viewers
- Publication
VIEW: Journal of European Television History & Culture, 2021, Vol 10, Issue 20, p1
- ISSN
2213-0969
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.18146/view.267