Under the Influence with Terry O'Reilly
Under the Influence with Terry O'Reilly
Apostrophe Podcast Network
Orchestrating Elections: Political Campaign Songs
25 minutes Posted Mar 15, 2025 at 3:56 pm.
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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.


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