Over on V and 11th Street NW in Washington, D.C., a residential building under construction looks exactly like a giant middle finger pointed straight at the White House.
“A lot of people take pictures, they watch, they laugh,” said the resident of a building down the block. “They keep looking at this building.”
Kennedy from Reason.TV reports.
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UCLA ethnomusicology professor Tim Taylor talks with Kennedy from Reason.TV about the rise of music in radio advertising and the early days of television. Taylor is the author of a book — The Sounds of Capitalism: Advertising, Music and the Conquest of Culture.
From the early days of radio through the rise of television after World War II to the present, music has been used more and more often to sell goods and establish brand identities. And since at least the 1920s, songs originally written for commercials have become popular songs, and songs written for a popular audience have become irrevocably associated with specific brands and products. Today, musicians move flexibly between the music and advertising worlds, while the line between commercial messages and popular music has become increasingly blurred.
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Reason.TV’s Kennedy throws lumps of coal at the most un-libertarian Christmas movies and specials of all time, a list that includes A Charlie Brown Christmas, A Christmas Memory, Love Actually, White Christmas and Miracle on 34th Street.
On the flip side, she explains why Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, It’s a Wonderful Life and The Sound of Music are her favorite fare when snuggling up to the electronic hearth with her kids and a Super Big Gulp filled with 100-proof eggnog.
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