Armenia in Eurovision 2022 Armenia entered the Eurovision Song Contest (ESC) for the first time in 2006 where they placed eighth. In the country’s 15 performances since, they have yet to place better than fourth (EBU, n.d.). The 2022 rotation of the ESC took place in Turin, Italy following Måneskin’s victory the previous year. In 2022, the Eurovision audience was extended to its full capacity for the first time since the Contest’s cancellation in 2020 due to COVID-19. Armenia hoped to break their placement record in Turin with its representation by Roza Kostandyan (“Rosa Linn”) who performed “Snap,” an English-language folk-pop song. However, while Rosa Linn did make it to the grand final of the Contest, it placed twentieth. Despite this, “Snap” was a breakaway success, amassing nearly 1 billion streams on Spotify since (Linn, Spotify ). The ESC has often been a platform for nations to put national identity on display and create a sense of either unity or individualism. Nat...
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Armenian National Identity With the potential for international relations only climbing in our technological era, the idea of a nation is increasingly important to understand. Nationalist ideologies have been on the rise for several decades, bringing the associated risk of international conflict. This calls to question the root of such nationalism. Here, I will be discussing national identity and how it can be recognized in the nation of Armenia. What is National Identity? National identity is a combination of symbols, values, and history that a country holds as a method of defining itself and separating it from other nations, or as defined by Anthony Smith (1991, p. 73), the “ideological movement for attaining and maintaining autonomy, unity and identity on behalf of a population deemed by some of its members to constitute an actual or potential nation.” This identity, however, will rarely (if ever) be nuanced enough to capture the likeness of all members. As a result, certain m...