Saturday, July 26, 2014

Find 10 songs that relate to the book 1984 and explain why you chose that song.

What an interesting
assignment!


Since there is an ongoing war among Oceania,
Eurasia and Eastasia, you could use some anti-war
songs:



Eve of
Destruction, by Barry
McGuire



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War, What is it Good for? by Edwin
Star



There is a Ministry of
Truth in 1984 that "controls" information and, so it is really a ministry of anti-truth,
so you could use some songs about truth:


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Truth, by DC Talk (Christian
Rock)


Brain Washing, by Bob
Marley



David Bowie actually
wrote a song about truth that was about the novel 1984. It depicts the final
brainwashing of Winston.


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Big Brother, by David Bowie (from the album
Diamond Dogs)


1984, by David Bowie
(from the album Diamond
Dogs)



Many songs
written by Bob Dylan could work because they apply to what would happen if we ever had a
world like the one depicted in
1984:


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Eve of Destruction, by Bob
Dylan


Blowin' in the Wind, by Bob
Dylan



Anything by Rage
Against the Machine - i.e. Township
Rebellion


George Harrison of the Beatles wrote a
song called Brainwashed which would be really
good.


Good luck!

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