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Über Casting Shows im Fernsehen

Abstract

Over the last years casting shows have become one of the most popular TV-formats. What conditions made this success possible? The music industry, on the one hand, was looking for and, for the time being, found a way out of its notorious crises in sales. The public, on the other hand, is not only pleased to listen to the singers' contest but also to find a testing ground for the rules of a growing neoliberal culture of competition.