A analysis of campaign songs of political parties in Turkey

Campaign song is one of the important propaganda tools of political parties in election campaigns. First examples of Turkish campaign songs emerged in the 1973 Turkish general election. In this study, campaign songs of Turkish political parties was analysed with discourse analyse method. The discourse analyse method, focuses on phrases's connotation on text. The method is analysed in detail in first section of this study. Political communication, propaganda, tools of political propaganda, relationship between political propaganda and music are analysed in second section. Discourse analyse of campaign songs, took place in the third section. This study covers the elections held between 1973 and 2019. The purpose of this study is to reveal the background meanings of campaign songs. With the purpose, lyrics of the campaign songs are analyzed. Also, the effect of social developments on campaign songs is tried to be determined. In this study, campaign songs are concluded that it has a function that gives important clues about; social structure, gender role, perception of society, economic developments, foreign policy etc. Also, the study makes a significant contribution to the literature on campaign songs.