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Music in Political Advertisements: Music to the Ears or Background Noise? A Study of Music's Influence on Message-relevant Thinking

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In this paper, the effects of instrumental background music on subjects' opinions of the candidate in a political radio commercial were investigated. But no significant effect was found on the likelihood to vote for the candidate.
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This experimental study tested the effects of instrumental background music on subjects' opinions of the candidate in a political radio commercial. Democrats hearing a Democratic candidate commercial without music considered it more issue-oriented than those hearing it with music. No significant effects were found in Republicans. Controlling for party affiliation, results showed a significant correlation between subjects' perceiving the spot as issue-oriented and their stated intention to vote for the candidate. Subjects hearing the spot with music were more likely to consider the spot “well done,” but this did not translate into a statistically significant preference for the candidate.

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Branding a Cool Celebrity President: Popular Music, Political Advertising, and the 2012 Election

Joanna Love
- 01 Oct 2015 - 
TL;DR: This paper examined two representative commercials that foregrounded popular music's tropes to paint Obama, for better or for worse, as a "cool celebrity" president, and investigated how these commercials employed the sights and sounds of popular music to drive their soundtracks and agendas.
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Does Background Music Really Help Radio Commercials? The Effect of Involvement on Ad Recall

TL;DR: In this article, the effects of background music on the recall of radio commercials were investigated and it was found that the involvement level with the music program was low compared to the involvement levels with the talk program and that this seems to have a mitigating effect on recall of the commercials.

Interest, Convenience, or Necessity? An Experimental Study of Listener Responses to Localism in Radio Programming and Ownership

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors discuss the UHF discount and the FCC's main studio rule in the context of radio broadcasting and localism in West Virginia community radio and conclude that the main studio rules achieve little for localism at a great cost to broadcasters.
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Muzyka w audiowizualnej wizerunkowej reklamie wyborczej a wyobrażenia o cechach kandydata wcześniej nieznanego odbiorcom

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors show that charakter muzyki ze spotów wyborczych można przyczyniać się do kształtowania określonych wyobrażeń na temat polityków, jednak znaczenie tła dówiękowego w omawianym kontekście jest znikome.
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Striking a Responsive Chord: How Political Ads Motivate and Persuade Voters by Appealing to Emotions

TL;DR: For example, this article used two experiments conducted during an actual election to show that cueing enthusiasm motivates participation and activates existing loyalties; cueing fear stimulates vigilance, increases reliance on contemporary evaluations, and facilitates persuasion.
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Attitude and Attitude Change: The Social Judgment-Involvement Approach

TL;DR: Caroline W. Sherif Attitude and Attitude change: The Social Judgment-Involvement Approach in pdf format as mentioned in this paper, is a book by Sherif and his co-authors.
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The Effects of Music in Advertising on Choice Behavior: A Classical Conditioning Approach:

TL;DR: This article found that features like humor, sex, color, and music in a commercial merely increase our attention to product information in a message, or can they directly influence our attitudes, and the results of an expe...
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Consumer Response to Television Commercials: The Impact of Involvement and Background Music on Brand Attitude Formation:

TL;DR: This article examined the effect of level of involvement (high vs. low) on subjects' reactions to persuasive communications and found that high involvement can be differentiated from low involvement by different levels of involvement.
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Does music preference relate to political party affiliation?

No, the study found that the presence or lack of music did not have a significant relationship with subjects' stated voting intentions, regardless of party affiliation.