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Jews, race, and popular music Jon Stratton

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Series: Ashgate popular and folk music seriesPublication details: Farnham Ashgate 2009Description: 227 pages 24 cmISBN:
  • 9780754668046
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • ML3470 STR
Contents:
Moanin' low -- Jews dreaming of acceptance -- Stay with me -- Jews and blues -- The Beastie Boys -- A Jew singing like a Black woman in Australia -- Not quite English -- Visibly Jewish.
Summary: "Jon Stratton provides a pioneering work on Jews as a racialized group in the popular music of America, Britain and Australia during the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Rather than taking a narrative, historical approach the book consists of a number of case studies, looking at the American, British and Australian music industries. Stratton's primary motivation is to uncover how the racialized positioning of Jews, which was sometimes similar but often different in each of the societies under consideration, affected the kinds of music with which Jews have become involved. Stratton explores race as a cultural construction and continues discussions undertaken in Jewish Studies concerning the racialization of the Jews and the stereotyping of Jews in order to present an in-depth and critical understanding of Jews, race and popular music."--Provided by publisher.
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Book Book Main Library Open Shelf ML3470 STR (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 147674 Available BK134376

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Moanin' low -- Jews dreaming of acceptance -- Stay with me -- Jews and blues -- The Beastie Boys -- A Jew singing like a Black woman in Australia -- Not quite English -- Visibly Jewish.

"Jon Stratton provides a pioneering work on Jews as a racialized group in the popular music of America, Britain and Australia during the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Rather than taking a narrative, historical approach the book consists of a number of case studies, looking at the American, British and Australian music industries. Stratton's primary motivation is to uncover how the racialized positioning of Jews, which was sometimes similar but often different in each of the societies under consideration, affected the kinds of music with which Jews have become involved. Stratton explores race as a cultural construction and continues discussions undertaken in Jewish Studies concerning the racialization of the Jews and the stereotyping of Jews in order to present an in-depth and critical understanding of Jews, race and popular music."--Provided by publisher.

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