Pop songs on political platforms

This article intends to review the use of music in the campaigns of American presidential candidates for the election cycles from 2004 through 2016. Each presidential race and campaign has its unique sonic identity or lack thereof, depending on candidate. The authors analyze certain criteria for eac...

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Published in:Journal of popular music studies 2017-09, Vol.29 (3), p.e12222-n/a
Main Authors: Blankenship, Courtney, Renard, Stan
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
21st century
Candidates
Copyright
Demographics
Political campaigns
Popular music
Presidential elections
Statistics
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Summary:This article intends to review the use of music in the campaigns of American presidential candidates for the election cycles from 2004 through 2016. Each presidential race and campaign has its unique sonic identity or lack thereof, depending on candidate. The authors analyze certain criteria for each candidate to assess whether connections exist between party affiliation, age, and other demographic information for the candidates, song details for the music selected (with title, performer, copyright year), genre of music, demographics of targeted voters, if cease and desist/copyright infringement was waged against candidate usage, and resulting success in polls. To analyze these data, the authors use a mixed methodology combining statistics as well as social network analysis (SNA) presenting visual outputs of the data in the form of networks.
ISSN:1524-2226
1533-1598
DOI:10.1111/jpms.12222