Known variously in Juno history as ‘Best Single,’ or ‘Best-Selling Single,’ and now ‘Single of the Year’ this award always garners attention. Reflections on select singles since 1979.
- British Academy Global Professor, Queen's University, Ontario
« Bridgerton » aborde – mais occulte aussi – les tensions sociales, raciales et politiques de l’époque de la Régence en Angleterre, la décennie extraordinaire qui marque l’aube du monde moderne.
‘Bridgerton’ alludes to and obscures social, racial and political tensions in England’s Regency era, the extraordinary decade that marks the dawn of the modern world.
One of the reasons the myth of vampires endures and captures the popular imagination is that vampires are a powerful metaphor for a wide range of cultural practices and social problems.
Prévu quelques jours plus tôt, le concert sur le toit des Beatles, le 30 janvier 1969, était leur dernier. Le pianiste américain Billy Preston y a symbolisé leurs efforts de collaboration mondiale.
Planned only a few days earlier, the Jan. 30, 1969 rooftop concert by the Beatles was their last. It is fitting the show included Billy Preston who symbolized their global collaborative efforts.
Leigh Hunt is a 19th-century writer who grappled with the still relevant question: How can we celebrate and enjoy ourselves at this time of the year when there is so much misery in the world?
Though she created her stories more than 200 years ago, Jane Austen’s novels were forerunners of feminism.
Neil Sedaka’s song “The Immigrant” was a top hit in 1975, but today it seems even more relevant, as debates rage in the United States over immigration, repatriation and racism.
‘Confessions of an English Opium-Eater’ is considered the first modern drug memoir. Many believe it is responsible for our romantic ideas of opium-based drug use today.
Fifty years ago Elvis Presley sang a tribute to Martin Luther King, Jr: “If I Can Dream.” English professor Robert Morrison goes back to that moment and looks at the lyrics written in honour of MLK.
Leigh Hunt is a nineteenth-century writer who grappled with the question: How can we celebrate and enjoy ourselves at this time of the year when there is so much misery in the world?
Prof. Robert Morrison edited Jane Austen’s “Persuasion” for Harvard University Press. On the classic’s 200th anniversary, he explains how Austen’s rhythmic words on loss, love and hope still resonate.
John Lennon and Yoko Ono visited Canada on a peace mission: They met with leaders and asked difficult questions, relevant today. How do we effectively protest against social injustices and war?
Rod Stewart, one of the greatest rock ‘n’ roll singers, is still current with his new DNCE co-release. What many don’t know is 40 years ago he wrote the first pop song to address gay rights.
Good songs are like good poetry. Literature professor Robert Morrison reflects on The Tragically Hip’s best song, “Ahead by a Century,” and explains the politics of hope within the tune.
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