October 31st, 2012 • SEGMENT

From The Show: Swingin' the Election: Music & Politics 2012

From the show "Swingin' the Election: Music & Politics 2012" originally aired on October 31st, 2012

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June 8th, 2011 • SEGMENT

From The Show: Philadelphia Sounds

Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter talks with Nick about his early days as a disco DJ and the similarities between getting the party started on the dance floor and running a major metropolitan center.

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August 15th, 2012 • SEGMENT

From The Show: Philadelphia Sounds

From the show "Philadelphia Sounds" originally aired on August 15th, 2012

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Swingin' the Election: Music & Politics 2012

Every four years American Routes checks out songs and soundbites about politics and electioneering from both sides of the aisle. Hear the late WV Senator Robert Byrd on his fiddle playing as an instrument of political persuasion, and the same approach of Cajun office seeker Roland Cheramie from Louisiana bayou country--he goes door-to-door fiddling for votes. Hungarian ambassador to the US, Andras Simonyi, talks about the role of rock in lifting the Iron Curtain. The buttoned-down Mayor Michael Nutter of Philadelphia was once a disco DJ, while Indiana's Andy Ruff uses honky-tonk to support his anti-highway building campaign.

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