[2] Since music is often viewed as a leisure activity, it is often not considered to be as threatening as other propaganda techniques, and as a result messages can often be surreptitiously communicated without being conspicuously noticed.
During the American Revolution, songs and poems were a very popular form of satire and also served as a medium for sharing the news and gossip of the day.
Samuel Adams utilized music and protest songs in the mass public demonstrations he organized to protest British practices towards the American colonists[3] After a humiliating retreat for the British-during which time the Americans engaged in the "ungentlemanly" act of firing at the backs of their retreating enemy – the British were immortalized in song: How brave you went out with muskets all bright, And thought to be-frighten the folks with the sight; But when you got there how they powder’d your pums, And all the way home how they pepper’d your bums, And is it not, honies, a comical farce, To be proud in the face, and be shot in the arse.
[5] In the language of the day, "doodle" referred to a fool or simpleton while "dandy" meant a gentleman of highly exaggerated dress and manners.
As a way to counter growing Islamic fundamentalism, Uzbek television programming has vilified Islamists through the use of pop videos by a group called Setora, a trio dubbed the "Tashkent Spice Girls".
[14] Setora's music video tells the story of a young soldier, the boyfriend of one of three girls, who is sent away on a military assignment away from his loved one.
[16] Rebel outfits were seeking to establish Sharia law within the country and saw eliminating music as a way to purge society of what they deemed "evil actions".
[17] During the Yugoslav Wars, the warring states were using traditional Balkan folk music created by their respected national artists in order to boost their soldiers' morale, as well as to justify their political and military superiority using derogatory terms for the ethnic populace, such as the words "Ustasa" for Croats, "Balija" for Bosniaks, and "Chetniks" for Serbs.
Many of these can be found on YouTube, for example the user Kocayine uploaded videos that came from old VHS tapes and recorded broadcasting of war music that were congruently paired up with combat footage that came from the region,[18] even to the point where one of them became an internet meme that was well received by neo-Nazis and Serb nationalists alike.