This isn't really keyword hijacking.
To recap on KH with examples before getting to Andy-
Keyword hijacking is creating decoys.
But a keyword hijacking usually involves a very specific noun ( often a proper noun like a name) from information hostile to power which is hijacked into a benign narrative, usually entertainment, in order to pre-bias memory and social transmission-meaning our talking about the keyword.
Like 1962 Hanoi show trial resulting from CIA
scuba disaster Operation
Vulcan being hijacked into >
>the 1964 first episode of TV's 'The Man From UNCLE' was called ...
'The
Vulcan Affair.'
>the CIA-like
Vulcan alien on Star Trek named after a beloved baby doctor, Mr. Spock.
>1965 James Bond movie 'Thunderball' with
'Vulcan' and
'scuba' figuring prominently in the plot synopsis.
Now THAT's keyword hijacking, folks.
Re: Your op example-
There was a genuine interest in Americana folk instruments and styles in the Beat-era counterculture. The Grateful Dead's Jerry Garcia, for instance, was a jugband and bluegrass banjo player before playing electric guitar through the Wall of Sound.
Television programming has long had to deal with having an urban/rural split in attitudes, interests, and styles but folk music has appealed to all types of folks.
But making sure that folk music wasn't of the lefty unionist style ala Woody Guthrie and Pete Seegar would be a CIA-Hollywood social engineering strategy.
And using folk music as a draw for younger viewers to the rural Just Father values of 'The Andy Griffith Show' is also a likely social engineering strategy of CIA-Hollywood.
That Sheriff Andy was so laid back and unarmed in contrast to Deputy Fife was a Cold War psy-ops meme, the
Just Father Who Won't Blow Up the World Because He Isn't Curtis Lemay. The nuclear age scared the hell out of lots of folks and keeping them comfy under militarism without going all peacenik is an ongoing task that was much harder back when Opie was prepubescent.
Once the official Vietnam War was getting revved up in 1964 guileless Gomer Pyle left Mayberry to...join the Marines in his spin-off show, 'Gomer Pyle, USMC.'
So folk music meme-jacking, kind of.
Keyword, no.
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