Orchestrating Elections: Political Campaign Songs

Under the Influence with Terry O'Reilly

Apostrophe Podcast Network

Cbc, Terry O'reilly, Advertising, Marketing, Under The Influence, Society & Culture, Pop Culture, Business

4.8 • 614 Ratings

🗓️ 15 March 2025

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

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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1:21.0	You're under the influence with Terry O'Reilly. You're under the influence with Terry O'Reilly. Music has been an instrument of war for centuries.
1:36.6	The ability of music to stir soldiers' hearts, to steal them for battle, and to inspire
1:42.1	brotherhood in the trenches is powerful.
1:45.9	Marshall music has existed in almost every country that has ever gone to war.
1:59.9	In Scotland, the bagpipes not only stir the soul,
2:04.3	they were called war pipes in battles dating from the year 1366.
2:09.9	Interestingly, the main goal of bagpipes was to inspire men and women in the midst of a battle,
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