Trax on the Trail 2020 | Andrew Fletcher & Andrew Scotchie on Music's Place in Progressive Politics by WRGC

In 2020, presidential candidates will wage an all-out assault on Americans’ eyes, ears and sensibilities.
At Trax on the Trail, we focus on the way campaigns use music and sound to differentiate their candidate and persuade you to vote for them.
In each episode of the Trax on the Trail podcast, hosts Dana Gorzelany-Mostak and Naomi Graber breakdown the music candidates play at rallies and in campaign ads and how voters manipulate and remix sound to signal support or disdain for the politics and politicians of our times.
The Trax on the Trail podcast is the aural alternative to the Trax on the Trail research project that will catalogue and critique the soundscape of the 2020 presidential election. You can follow along at traxonthetrail.com.
In this episode, Dana and Naomi are joined by Tommy Oswalt in an interview with Asheville, North Carolina Musicians Andrew Scotchie and Andrew Fletcher about the connection between music and activism and how musicians are often a force in the politics of change.
Scotchie and Fletcher organized Feel the Beat! Feel the Bern!, a concert to support the candidacy of Bernie Sanders. Dana and Naomi talked with them about trading their instruments for cell phones and email and why music is such an important part of any political message. Andrew
You can learn more about Andrew Scotchie on his website: andrewscotchiemusic.com. And Andrew Fletcher can be heard on his site: http://www.andrewjfletcher.com.
The Trax on the Trail podcast is a collaboration between the Georgia College Department of Music and WRGC 88.3FM.Trax on the Trail was created by Dana Gorzelany-Mostak and is co-edited by Naomi Graber and James Deaville. Haley Strassberger and Sarah Griffin provide research assistance.
Today’s program was edited by Daniel McDonald.
The Trax on the Trail theme was created by Rebecca Pronsky.
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