EPISODE · Mar 15, 2025 · 25 MIN
Orchestrating Elections: Political Campaign Songs
from Under the Influence with Terry O'Reilly
This week, we take a look at one of the tools of political marketing – the campaign song.Politicians have used songs going all the way back to at least the 1700s.Sometimes the songs are written expressly for the political party or candidate.Sometimes, politicians co-opt pop songs.And sometimes, pop artists have a major problem with that.We know you want to listen to all the ads in this show. On the off-chance you don’t, subscribe ad-free here. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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This week, we take a look at one of the tools of political marketing – the campaign song.Politicians have used songs going all the way back to at least the 1700s.Sometimes the songs are written expressly for the political party or candidate.Sometimes, politicians co-opt pop songs.And sometimes, pop artists have a major problem with that.We know you want to listen to all the ads in this show. On the off-chance you don’t, subscribe ad-free here. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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