J Stratton

Datos Biográficos

ID8274
NOMBREJ Stratton
NOMBRESJ
APELLIDOStratton
FIRMASTRATTON J
AFILIACIONESCurtin University
ORCID0000-0001-6787-9388
VERIFICADOSí
TOTAL DE OBRAS97
TOTAL DE CITAS323
TOTAL COMO AUTOR97
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN1967
AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN2026
ÍNDICE H8

  • American atom bomb songs of the post-war period

    J StrattonARTICLEPopular Music History2026

    In 1945 the Americans dropped two atom bombs on Japan, the first on Hiroshima and the second on Nagasaki. The destruction they caused heralded the end of the war in the Pacific. Immediately songs began to be written about the bomb. The first was Fred Kirby’s ‘Atomic Power’. Here, already, the bomb was linked to God and to apocalypse. In the years that followed, for roughly two decades, many songs were recorded about the bomb, and apocalypse, and …

  • Culture in practice

    Susan Luckman, Katrina Jaworski et al.ARTICLEContinuum2025Referencias: 1

  • Doing the Nutbush

    Open AccessPeter Allmark, J StrattonARTICLEContinuum2024

    The Nutbush dance is unique to Australia.It is danced to the Ike and Tina Turner track Nutbush City Limits released in 1973.It is a line dance.Anybody can join the line.This article explores the history and reception of the Nutbush.The Nutbush seems have been developed around 1975 in Sydney as a part of modernizing the physical education and creative arts curricula for state primary and secondary schools.The Nutbush is relatively simple and is da…

  • The Nutbush Dance Reframed

    Open AccessJ Stratton, Peter AllmarkARTICLEContinuum2024

    This article supplements our earlier article on the Nutbush dance, ‘Doing the Nutbush’. After that was published, there was a media frenzy which resulted in many comments on The Guardian site and on the ABC Facebook site. We also received a number of emails. All these contributions have helped fine-tune the history of the dance that we have been examining. Two key things became clear. Around 1970 there was a push in state education departments ac…

  • The Viennese waltz

    Open AccessJ StrattonARTICLESocial Identities2024Citada por: 1Referencias: 18

    The Viennese waltz was the first vernacular, modern dance. Modern, here, Carrie's the meaning of modernity. Such dances have an expressive relationship with the body and this requires a specific discursive understanding of what a body is and how it can be experienced. That is, modern, vernacular dancing is a function of the modern body. The modern body evolved as part of the social transformation of society from a feudal order to one founded on c…

  • As Time Goes By

    J StrattonARTICLEJournal for Cultural Research2023

    One component in the vote to leave the European Union was a nostalgic image of Empire and the assertion by Brexiteers like Boris Johnson that after Britain had left the EU new trade links would be made with countries who were members of the Commonwealth, countries that Britain had previously governed as colonies. The foundation for this idea was the understanding that Britain’s governing of its colonies had been benign and, indeed, that British c…

  • The Easybeats

    Open AccessJ StrattonARTICLEThesis Eleven2023Referencias: 3

    The Easybeats' 1960s career is viewed as being in two halves. In the first, they played pop songs composed by Stevie Wright and George Young. The group was incredibly successful in Australia spawning the term Easyfever to describe the adulation heaped on them by mainly teenage girls. In the second half, the group go to England and Young starts writing with Harry Vanda. The group had one huge international hit 'Friday On My Mind' and then their po…

  • Parodies for a pandemic

    J StrattonARTICLECultural Studies2021

    One of the common responses to the coronavirus pandemic and the lockdowns that have been a feature of almost all countries has been the making of what have come to be called parodies. These are songs with new lyrics set to the tunes of established and well-known popular songs. The new lyrics describe life during the pandemic, the experience of isolation during lockdown, the importance of wearing masks and washing hands, the importance of social d…

  • Heartland television commercials

    J StrattonARTICLEJournal for Cultural Research2021

    This article argues that certain Cadbury television advertisements reflect a change in the relationship between the north and the south of England. Historically, the south of England has understood the north, let us say, the North, as a relatively backward and impoverished region while the south, let us say the South, has seen itself as the heartland of England. In the disillusionment felt about the EU, and reflected in the Brexit vote, this dist…

  • Coronavirus, the great toilet paper panic and civilisation

    Open AccessJ StrattonARTICLEThesis Eleven2021Citada por: 5Referencias: 9

    Panic buying of toilet rolls in Australia began in early March 2020. This was related to the realisation that the novel coronavirus was spreading across the country. To the general population the impact of the virus was unknown. Gradually the federal government started closing the country's borders. The panic buying of toilet rolls was not unique to Australia. It happened across all societies that used toilet paper rather than water to clean afte…

  • Kiss

    Open AccessJ StrattonARTICLEMetal Music Studies2020

    KISS was a hard rock group, one of the most successful during the second half of the 1970s and early 1980s. The group’s two founding members, Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley, were both Jewish. Indeed, both were the sons of Holocaust survivors. This article examines the impact of Simmons’s and Stanley’s Jewishness on KISS as a rock group and on its success. One of the most obvious impacts was the drive to succeed which Simmons and Stanley shared. Si…

  • Whatever Happened to Multiculturalism

    Open AccessJ StrattonCHAPTERMulticulturalism, Whiteness and…2020

  • Multiculturalism, Whiteness and Otherness in Australia

    Open AccessJ StrattonBOOKMulticulturalism, Whiteness and…2020

  • Glam Rock and the society of the spectacle

    J StrattonARTICLEContemporary British History2020Referencias: 2

    This article considers Glam Rock in the historical context of the development of the society of the spectacle in the United Kingdom. Glam Rock is usually discussed as a youth culture. This article places Glam Rock in relation to the acceptance of television, especially colour television, the associated importance of advertising and the establishment of the UK as a consumption society. One important aspect of this was the emphasis on fashion. All …

  • The language of leaving

    J StrattonARTICLEJournal for Cultural Research2019

    This article considers the language use in the Brexit debate, especially by the leading figures who argued for Leave. I argue that historically those who identify as English have had anxieties focused around invasion, occupation and loss of sovereignty. In 1940 these fears materialised in the possibility of invasion by Hitler’s forces. The unresolved cultural trauma associated with these fears has meant that discussions about the United Kingdom’s…

  • Into the groove

    Peter Allmark, Panizza Allmark et al.ARTICLESocial Identities2019Citada por: 1Referencias: 12

    This article examines nightclubbing in Perth in the 1980s. The specific focus is on the ways ethnicity and race related to which nightclub people went to, and the kinds of music played in the nightclubs. The article is based on interviews. The article focuses on three specific clubs, Hannibal’s, where the Italo-Australians and other southern Europeans went, Palladium, where Italo-Australians mixed with white Australians, and Jules, where Anglo-In…

  • Haunted by the Holocaust

    J StrattonARTICLEJournal for Cultural Research2018

    The basis of my argument is that the cultural trauma now identified as the Holocaust occupied a latency period of around thirty years, or one generation, before surfacing in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Alongside theorists such as Ron Eyerman and Jeffrey Alexander I argue that cultural trauma, the trauma experienced by a social group, functions in a similar way to individual trauma. In this article I examine a number of texts that exhibit expr…

  • Death and the Spectacle in Television and Social Media

    Open AccessJ StrattonARTICLETelevision & New Media2018Citada por: 3Referencias: 5

    Social media are pervaded by death. This article utilizes ideas drawn primarily from the work of Guy Debord—the society of the spectacle—and Jean Baudrillard—his discussion of death in Symbolic Exchange and Death, to think through the significance of death on social media. Debord argued that the consequence of the ubiquity of the mass media, and television in particular, and their increasing imbrication with consumption capitalism, was that socia…

  • The Singapore Way of Multiculturalism

    I Ang, J StrattonARTICLEJournal of Social Issues in…2018Citada por: 13

  • The Birthday Party and The Scientists

    Open AccessJ StrattonARTICLEThesis Eleven2018Citada por: 1Referencias: 4

    This article compares two of the groups generally regarded by critics as the most important in Australia in the post-punk period, The Birthday Party and The Scientists. While they had much in common - each was governed by the vision of one man, Nick Cave for The Birthday Party and Kim Salmon for The Scientists, both had record deals in Australia and both went to London - The Birthday Party became a cult success while The Scientists are only now, …

  • Perth, unreal city

    J StrattonARTICLEPerfect Beat2017

    There are a surprising number of songs that reference Perth, Western Australia, written by artists who do not live there and who might have visited, usually on tour, or have never been there at all. In this article I examine the reasons for this, suggesting that Perth is a city that has become very mythic. This mythic investment is a consequence of Perth being in the west of Australia—California has some of the same mythic qualities in the United…

  • Pizza and Housos

    J StrattonARTICLEJournal of Intercultural Studies2017Citada por: 1Referencias: 17

    There is limited scholarship about Paul Fenech’s television comedy series and films. What there is tends to focus on Pizza (2000–2007) and place it, and its spin-off film, Fat Pizza (2003), within what has been called the wogsploitation cycle that includes most prominently The Wog Boy (2000). In this article I discuss two of Fenech’s television series, Pizza and Housos (2011–2013), in the context of representations of the underclass. I argue that…

  • Putting the fragments (back) together

    J StrattonARTICLESocial Identities2017Referencias: 11

    This article argues that there is an elective affinity between the Jewish worldview and sampling. Sampling has a history much longer than its use in hip hop. Here, though, I am concerned with Jewish artists who have used sampling since the 1980s such as Steinski, the Beastie Boys, Edan and SoCalled. These artists have worked within the generic form of hip hop but have created texts that are quite distinct from texts created by African Americans. …

  • Die Sheldon die

    J StrattonARTICLEJournal for Cultural Research2016

    This article is about the very popular American sitcom The Big Bang Theory. It is focused on the ways that the economic assumptions of neoliberalism are made clear in the programme and how much of this process is linked to the character of Sheldon. I argue that Sheldon is a version of the literary trope of the fool. In this case, a person who is lacking in social skills and who therefore speaks the “truth” of his understanding of social situation…

  • Anxious Histories

    J StrattonARTICLEAustralian Historical Studies2016Citada por: 1

    Anxious Histories: Narrating the Holocaust in Jewish Communities at the Beginning of the Twenty-First Century." Australian Historical Studies, 47(2), pp. 339–340