A History of Rock the Vote, Which Made Politics Cool For a Skeptical Generation

3 years 6 months ago

When the music video ruled the world, it seemed like everything wanted to be one: movies, TV intros, commercials, and eventually voting PSAs. In 1990, a voter-registration campaign called Rock the Vote began sexifying the concept of voting to MTV viewers. The initiative lifted off with the help of two cultural rocket…

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Rich Juzwiak on Culture, shared by Riley MacLeod to Kotaku

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