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Category : Political ballads and songs
Languages : en
Pages : 80

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Author: Danny O. Crew
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 147660746X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 895

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Since the years before the Revolutionary War, American composers have expressed their political passions and viewpoints in song. Music inspired by political themes and politicians can reveal a great deal about significant people and events that have shaped our national political atmosphere. American Political Music provides a state-by-state inventory of thousands of songs about American political personalities from 1756 through 2004. The book documents music for all political offices except president. Within each state and the District of Columbia, the names of elected politicians, candidates for public office and other high-profile individuals appear in alphabetical order with a detailed listing of published songs that relate to them. Also included under each state where applicable is a “miscellaneous” section containing general political topics about that state—everything from temperance (“Vote Our California Dry”) to the women’s vote (“Rally Song for the Ohio Suffragist”) to the introduction of Boston’s first public water system (“Cochituate Grand Quick Step”). Under each person or topic are listed related songs, with title, tune, composer and lyricist, publisher, copyright year, and information on where a particular song or its lyrics may be found (i.e., broadsides, sheet music, songbooks, songs published in newspapers, wax cylinders, piano rolls, vinyl records, CDs, internet or mp3 files). Also included is an appendix of parodied songs demonstrating, among other things, the durability of Battle Hymn of the Republic and Yankee Doodle as fertile and favored ground for the parodist. The book also includes a list of publishers by city and indexes of song titles; authors and composers; politicians; and subjects and offices.

Author: John Edgar Molnar
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Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 994

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Category : Union catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 712

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Author: Avero Publications Limited
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780907977568
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 632

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Author: Albert Aloysius Bieber
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 116

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Author: British Library
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Languages : en
Pages : 1016

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Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 330

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Author: Cadmus Book Shop
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Category : Catalogs, Booksellers
Languages : en
Pages : 1170

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Author: Benjamin S. Schoening
Publisher: Lexington Books
ISBN: 0739172999
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 313

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In this insightful, erudite history of presidential campaign music, musicologist Benjamin Schoening and political scientist Eric Kasper explain how politicians use music in American presidential campaigns to convey a range of political messages. From “Follow Washington” to “I Like Ike” to “I Got a Crush on Obama,” they describe the ways that song use by and for presidential candidates has evolved, including the addition of lyrics to familiar songs, the current trend of using existing popular music to connect with voters, and the rapid change of music’s relationship to presidential campaigns due to Internet sites like YouTube, JibJab, and Facebook. Readers are ultimately treated to an entertaining account of American political development through popular music and the complex, two-way relationship between music and presidential campaigns.