Croatia in the Eurovision Song Contest: From an Anti-War Message to the Recognition of a Cultural Tradition

In its main part this article analyses the 21 Croatian songs and singers at the Eurovision Song Contest (ESC) from 1993 to 2013 after the Yugoslavian Wars 1991-1995, discussing what these participations meant as ways of representing the Croatian nation in a way of integrating it to Europe, as well as in a way of creating a new scope of images about the country to Croats themselves. Following the brief historical overview of the Yugoslavian participation in the ESC (27 participations between 1961 and 1992), it is also stated that all Yugoslavian representatives in the ESC between 1983 and 1990 have come from Zagreb Television, even if some of them where not Croatians.