Abstract
The connection between song and politics is well documented, but in recent years is said to be severed. This is not the case. The relationship between politics and song endures, reflecting and revi...
Highlights
In 2015, Jeremy Corbyn was newly installed as leader of the British Labour Party. He was embroiled in a political row for not singing God Save the Queen at a Battle of Britain commemoration, at which the Queen was in attendance
Corbyn’s decision not to sing the national anthem was interpreted by some as insulting, unpatriotic, that he was a political relic from past times (Dominiczak, 2015)
We can assume Corbyn’s Republican sympathies left him unwilling to participate in obsequious collective singing, but what is certain is Corbyn’s reluctance to sing the national anthem is not because he shies away from singing in public, because on the day that he was first elected Labour leader he was filmed at a victory party singing “The Red Flag”, Labour’s political anthem
Summary
In 2015, Jeremy Corbyn was newly installed (for the first time) as leader of the British Labour Party. Michael Cockerill) shows, the promotional effort to market Mrs Thatcher to working class, so-called “C2” women voters, explains her selection of “Two Little Boys” for a popular local radio show; the song’s mawkish sentimentality intended to soften her appeal to Lancashire housewives by reminding them that she, like them, is a mother (contra Huq, 2015; who misunderstands Thatcher’s song choice as a straightforward case of politics meets music fandom).
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