MUSICAL POLITICS

posted by James Reel

The Democratic National Convention has a composer in residence, David Amram. No word on whether the Republicans will follow suit. Campaigns on both sides, starting in the primaries, would be vastly improved, I think, if each candidate commissioned an original theme song instead of the existing and not always relevant pop numbers they tend to appropriate—sometimes to the distress of the singers; Jackson Browne has gone so far as to sue McCain.