{"id":1200,"date":"2008-02-05T10:27:10","date_gmt":"2008-02-05T15:27:10","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2008-02-05T10:27:10","modified_gmt":"2008-02-05T10:27:10","slug":"use-of-music-in-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/use-of-music-in-politics\/","title":{"rendered":"Use of Music in Politics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jjXyqcx-mYY?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><br \/>\nI received a link to this video yesterday from John Kerry.  (Is anyone else on John Kerry&#8217;s mailing list?  He bugs the shit out of me.  I suppose I should just opt out&#8230;)  I thought it a brilliant use of a viral video for political marketing where, when it comes to Obama&#8217;s vital need of young voters, the medium is much the message.<\/p>\n<p>But it got me thinking about the use of music, specifically contemporary music, in politics.  I was moved by the use of <em>Don&#8217;t Stop<\/em> by the  Clinton campaign back in the day.  I was amused at the misuse and flap over <em>Born in the USA<\/em>.  I&#8217;ve heard that Hillary is using <em>American Girl<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Can you think of any others? <\/p>\n<p>Is this Obama video the first use of original music in American politics? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I received a link to this video yesterday from John Kerry. (Is anyone else on John Kerry&#8217;s mailing list? He bugs the shit out of me. I suppose I should just opt out&#8230;) I thought it a brilliant use of a viral video for political marketing where, when it comes to Obama&#8217;s vital need of <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/use-of-music-in-politics\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1200"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1200\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}