[lbo-talk] the music of politics

Wendy Lyon wendy.lyon at gmail.com
Fri Jan 18 04:09:59 PST 2008


On 17/01/2008, Jim Farmelant <farmelantj at juno.com> wrote:


> A friend of mine who had been doing some radio reporting
> on the New Hampshire primary says that she attended
> a Huckabee event where they were playing Janis Joplin.
> She seemed to think that was a bit weird for an event
> that was attended mostly be evangelicals.

There was a really silly controversy here in Ireland last year when the main government party played the Fratellis' "Chelsea Dagger" at their annual convention, because of the song's references to heroin.

Had the Fratellis known their song was being used by that crowd they probably wouldn't have been too happy about it either.



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