February 20, 2016 On 16 June 2015, Donald Trump announced his candidacy for the presidency of the United States. Since then, Trump has received “more nightly [i.e., televisual] news attention than all the Democratic campaigns combined,” and unquestionably more online attention than any other Republican candidate.[i] Trump’s pronouncements—especially his proclamations concerning Muslims and Hispanic immigrants—haveContinue reading “The Trump Bump 2016: User-generated Campaign Music about Donald Trump and His Political Opponents”
Monthly Archives: February 2016
Musical Yearning in Bernie Sanders’s Presidential Primary Ad “America”
February 2, 2016 As I was writing this in late January 2016, Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders was soaring in the polls in early primary states Iowa and New Hampshire. As this piece goes “to press,” it cannot escape mention that Sanders has now achieved at the Iowa caucuses what for his campaign means aContinue reading “Musical Yearning in Bernie Sanders’s Presidential Primary Ad “America””