Books by Jon Stratton

This book examines the experience of race and ethnicity in Australia after the withering away of official multiculturalism. The third chapter considers the imbrication of Christianity in the Australian socio-cultural order and its impact on the limits of multiculturalism with particular concentration on Islam and the Australian Muslim experience.

Jon Stratton explores the concept of ¿song careers¿, referring to how a song is picked up and then transformed by being revisioned by different artists and in different cultural contexts, to examine the ways that music has crossed racial faultlines that have developed in the post-Second World War era as a consequence of the movement of previously c

Jon Stratton explores the concept of 'song careers', referring to how a song is picked up and then transformed by being revisioned by different artists and in different cultural contexts.

Focuses on Jews as a racialized group in the popular music of America, Britain and Australia during the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. This book explores race as a cultural construction and continues discussions undertaken in Jewish Studies concerning the racialization of the Jews and the stereotyping of Jews.

Black Popular Music in Britain since 1945 provides the first broad scholarly discussion of this music since 1990. The book critically examines key moments in the history of Black British popular music from 1940s jazz to 1970s soul and reggae, 1990s Jungle and the sounds of Dubstep and Grime that have echoed through the 2000s.

Devoted exclusively to the Britpop phenomenon and its contexts, this book examines issues such as the historical antecedents of Britpop, the subjectivities governing the performative conventions of Britpop, the cultural context within which Britpop unfolded, and its influence on the post-Britpop music scene in the UK.

Coming Out Jewish explores the idea of 'Jewishness' as a problem of racial/ethnic identity in the modern and post-modern world. It is a path-breaking book that firmly places the Jewish experience on the Cultural Studies agenda.

The purpose of critical thinking, according to this text, is rethinking: that is, reviewing, evaluating and revising thought. The opening chapters provide a thorough discussion of linguistic standards of meaning, and a detailed examination of logical inference and informal fallacies follows.