Under the Influence with Terry O'Reilly

Orchestrating Elections: Political Campaign Songs

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March 15, 2025 10:56am

25m

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.



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