Feeling the Bern or Just Feeling Burned? Musical Parody and the Contest for the 2016 Democratic Nomination

April 17, 2016 From Renaissance parody masses to Weird Al Yankovic, milk commercials to playground taunts, musical parodies are a ubiquitous, cheeky thread of a society’s musical fabric. The pervasiveness of parody belies the cleverness of the act of parodying a recognizable song; by introducing the creative constraint of reusing pre-existing musical matter, parodies instantlyContinue reading “Feeling the Bern or Just Feeling Burned? Musical Parody and the Contest for the 2016 Democratic Nomination”