US election 2020: how the rival candidates have used music in their campaigns
- Written by Adam Behr, Lecturer in Popular and Contemporary Music, Newcastle University
A 74-year-old man dancing half-heartedly and without much rhythm to the Village People’s YMCA while a host of other people complain about the playlist – it might conjure up an image of the tail end of a wedding reception. In fact, it’s yet another facet of the increasingly surreal popular cultural context of the 2020 US election....