REGINA EXCHANGE: Popular Songs and the Modernist Dystopia: Brave New World and Nineteen Eighty-Four
1984 has never sounded this good. U of R Associate Professor Alex MacDonald presents songs of the Modernist dystopia.
Event
Regina Exchange
Annual Presentations by University of Regina Faculty
In Exchange with the U of S Department of English
Popular Songs and the Modernist Dystopia:
Brave New World and Nineteen Eighty-Four
By Associate Professor Alex MacDonald, PhD
Friday, March 23
3:30 PM
Arts 206
Join University of Regina Associate Professor Alex MacDonald as he discusses popular songs of the Modernist dystopia. Musical examples will include original settings of songs by Aldous Huxley and George Orwell in Brave New World and Nineteen Eighty-Four, as well as a number of popular songs from the 1920s to 1940s.