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Prof Jon Stratton

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    • Role:
    • Personal Chair/Professor
    • Department:
    • Dept of Communication & Cultural Studies
    • Location:
    • Humanities 141
    • Telephone:
    • +61 8 9266 7291
Jon is Professor of Cultural Studies.  He gained his PhD in Sociology from the University of Essex and has worked in Australia since 1980 coming to Curtin in 1990 after teaching at universities in Brisbane, Armidale and Darwin.

Jon has taught widely in areas like literary theory, social history, and cultural studies.  At Curtin, among other teaching, he has developed units which critically examine aspects of everyday life and also on popular music.    His work centres around issues of identity cultural specificity.  He has published widely from articles on soap opera to serial killing to cyberspace and books on postmodernity, the body and the role of race in Australian culture.

Jon was Vice-President of the Australasian Cultural Studies Association between 2000 and 2004.  He coedited the Transnational Cultural Studies series for University of Illinois Press between 1997 and 2000.   In 1998 he held a Rockefeller Fellowship at the International Forum for United States’ Studies at the University of Iowa.

Jon is on the editorial boards of Continuum: Journal of Media and Cultural Studies., The European Journal of Cultural Studies, and Perfect Beat: The Pacific Journal of Research into Contemporary Music and Popular Culture among other journals.

 

Affiliations

International Association for the Study of Popular Music, Australia and New Zealand section; Cultural Studies Association of Australasia; Association for Cultural Studies. 

Publications

Books (Authored, Research)

  • Stratton, J. 2011. Uncertain Lives: Culture, Race and neoliberalism in Australia. Newcastle, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
  • Stratton, J. 2009. Jews, Race and Popular Music. Surrey, England: Ashgate.
  • Stratton, J. 2008. Jewish Identity in Western Pop Culture: The Holocaust and Trauma Through Modernity. New York, USA: Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Stratton, J. 2007. Australian Rock. Perth, Western Australia: API Network.

Book Chapters (Authored, Research Quality)

  • Stratton, J. 2010. Englishing popular Music in the 1960s. In Britpop and the English Music Tradition, eds Andy Bennett and Jon Stratton, 42-54. Farnham, England: Ashgate.
  • Stratton, J. 2010. Introduction. In Britpop and the English Music Tradition, eds Andy Bennett and Jon Stratton, 1-7. Farnham, England: Ashgate.
  • Stratton, J. 2010. Skiffle, Variety and Englishness. In Britpop and the English Music Tradition, eds Andy Bennett and Jon Stratton, 27-40. Farnham, England: Ashgate.
  • Stratton, J. 2010. Preserving White Hegemony: Skilled Migration, 'Asians' and Middle Class Assimilation. In Enter at Own Risk?: Australia's Population Questions for the 21st Century, eds Suvendrini Perera, Graham Seal, Sue Summers, 29-63. Perth, Western Australia: Black Swan Press.
  • Stratton, J. 2010. Miami Vice. In The Essential Cult TV Reader, eds David Lavery, 159-165. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky.
  • Ang, I, and Stratton, J. 2009. Asianing Australia; Notes Toward a Critical Transnationalism in Cultural Studies. In Creative Nation: Australian Cinema and Cultural Studies Reader, eds Amit Sarwal and Reema Sarwal, 314-336. New Delhi, India: SSS Publications.
  • Stratton, J. 2009. The Murderous State: The Nationalisation of Violence and Exclusion in the Films of Neoliberal Australia. In Creative Nation: Australian Cinema and Cultural Studies Reader, eds Amit Sarwal and Reema Sarwal, 180-201. New Delhi, India: SSS Publications.
  • Stratton, J. 2009. Dying to Come to Australia: Asylum Seekers, Tourists and Death. In Imagined Australia: Reflections around the reciprocal construction of identity between Australia and Europe, eds Renata Summo-O'Connell, 57-87. Bern, Germany: Peter Lang.
  • Stratton, J. 2009. Suburban Stories: Dave McComb and the Perth Experience. In Vagabond Holes: David McComb and The Triffids, eds Chris Coughran and Niall Lucy, 35-43. Fremantle, Western Australia: Fremantle Press.
  • Stratton, J. 2008. The Idol Audience: Judging, Interactivity and Entertainment. In Sonic Synergies: Music, Technology, Community, Identity, eds Gerry Bloustien, Margaret Peters and Susan Luckman, 157-168. Hampshire, England: Ashgate.
  • Stratton, J. 2007. Dying to Come to Australia: Asylum Seekers, Tourists and Death. In Our Patch: Enacting Australian Sovereignty Post-2001, eds Suvendrini Perera, 167-196. Perth, Western Australia: API Network.
  • Stratton, J. 2006. Seinfeld is a Jewish Sitcom, Isn't It? Ethnicity and Assimilation in 1990s American Television. In Seinfeld: Master of Its Domain - Revisiting Television's Greatest Sitcom, eds David Lavery with Sar Lewis Dunne, 117-136. New York and London: Continuum.
  • Stratton, J. 2006. "So Tonight I'm Gonna Party Like It's 1999": Looking Forward to The Matrix. In The Matrix in Theory, eds Myriam Diocaretz and Stefan Herbrechter, 27-51. Amsterdam, Netherlands: Rodopi.
  • Stratton, J. 2005. Lost in Music: Popular Music, Multiculturalism and Australian Film. In Reel Tracks: Australian Feature Film, Music and Cultural Identities, eds Rebecca Coyle, 74-93. UK: John Libbey Publishing.
  • Stratton, J. 2004. Borderline anxieties: what whitening the Irish has to do with keeping out asylum seekers. In Whitening Race: Essays in social and cultural criticism, eds Aileen Moreton-Robinson, 222-238. Canberra, ACT: Aboriginal Studies Press.
  • Stratton, J. 2002. The Color of Jews: Jews, Race, and the White Australia Policy. In Zygmunt Bauman, eds Peter Beilharz, 237-259. London, United Kingdom: SAGE Publications Ltd.

Refereed Articles (Scholarly Journals)

  • Stratton, J. 2011. Non-Citizens in the Exclusionary State: Citizenship, Mitigated Exclusion and the Cronulla Riots. Continuum: Journal of Media and Cultural Studies 25(3): 299-316.
  • Stratton, J. 2011. Zombie Trouble: Zombie Texts, Bare Life and Displaced People. European Journal of Cultural Studies 14(3): 265-282.
  • Stratton, J. 2011. The Jackson Jive: Blackface Today and the Limits of Whiteness in Australia. Journal of the European Association for Studies on Australia 2(2): 22-41.
  • Stratton, J. 2011. Skin Deep: Ska and Reggae, on the Racial Faultline in Britain, 1968-1981. Popular Music History 5(2): 191-215.
  • Stratton, J. 2011. Trouble with Zombies: Bare Life, Muselmanner and Displaced People. Somatechnics 1(1): 188-208.
  • Stratton, J. 2010. Chris Blackwell and "My Boy Lollipop": Ska, Race, and British Popular Music. Journal of Popular Music Studies 22(4): 436-465.
  • Stratton, J. 2009. Preserving White Hegemony: Skilled migration, 'Asians' and middle-class assimilation. Borderlands - e-journal .
  • Stratton, J. 2009. 'Welcome to paradise': Asylum seekers, neoliberalism, nostalgia and Lucky Miles. Continuum: Journal of Media and Cultural Studies 23(5): 629-645.
  • Perera, S, and Stratton, J. 2009. Introduction: Heterochronotopes of exception and the frontiers and faultlines of citizenship. Continuum: Journal of Media and Cultural Studies 23(5): 585-595.
  • Stratton, J. 2009. The Murderous State: the Nationalisation of Violence and Exclusion in teh Films of Neoliberal Australia. Cultural Studies Review 15(1): 11-32.
  • Stratton, J. 2009. Jews Dreaming of Acceptance: From the Brill Building to Suburbia with Love. Shofar 27(2): 102-127.
  • Stratton, J. 2009. Uncertain lives: migration, the border and neoliberalism in Australia. Social Identities: Journal for the Study of Race, Nation and Culture 15(5): 677-692.
  • Stratton, J. 2009. Michael Mann's Miami Vice: Protecting White America in the 1980s. Television and New Media 10(2): 195-215.
  • Stratton, J. 2008. Suburban stories: Dave McComb and the Perth experience. Continuum: Journal of Media and Cultural Studies 22(2): 255-267.
  • Stratton, J. 2008. The difference of Perth music: A scene in cultural and historical context. Continuum: Journal of Media and Cultural Studies 22(5): 613-622.
  • Stratton, J. 2008. A Jew Singing Like a Black Woman in Australia: Race, RenĂ©e Geyer, and Marcia Hines. Journal of Popular Music Studies 20(2): 166-193.
  • Stratton, J. 2008. Brian Poole and the Tremeloes or the Yardbirds: Comparing popular music in Perth and Adelaide in the early 1960s. Perfect Beat: The Pacific Journal for Research into Contemporary Music and Popular Culture 9(1): 60-77.
  • Stratton, J. 2008. The Beastie Boys: Jews in whiteface. Popular Music 27(3): 413-432.
  • Stratton, J. 2007. Separation Anxiety: Zionism, Colonialism, Messianism. Borderlands - e-journal 6.
  • Stratton, J. 2007. 'All rock and Rhythm and Jazz': Rock 'n' Roll Origin Stories and Race in Australia. Continuum: Journal of Media and Cultural Studies 21: 379-392.
  • Stratton, J. 2007. 'Do You Want to Know A Secret?': Popular Music in Perth in the Early 1960s. Illumina 1(2).
  • Stratton, J. 2007. Producing an Australian popular music: from Stephen Foster to Jack O'Hagan. Journal of Australian Studies 90: 153-165.
  • Stratton, J. 2007. The Triffids: The Sense of a Place. Popular Music and Society 30: 377-399.
  • Stratton, J. 2007. Constructing an avant-garde: Australian popular music and the experience of pleasure. Popular Music History 2: 49-75.
  • Stratton, J. 2007. Punk, Jews, and the Holocaust - The English Story. Shofar 25: 124-149.
  • Stratton, J. 2006. Nation Building and Australian Popular Music in the 1970s and 1980s. Continuum: Journal of Media and Cultural Studies 20(2): 243-252.
  • Dunn, K, Mee, K, Gibson, C, Stratton, J, Dufty, R, and Jones, R. 2006. Forum: Cultural Geography and Cultural Studies. Journal of the Institute of Australian Geographers - Geographical Research 44(4): 418-434.
  • Stratton, J. 2006. Two Rescues, One History: Everyday Racism in Australia. Social Identities: Journal for the Study of Race, Nation and Culture 12(6): 657-681.
  • Stratton, J. 2005. Before Holocaust Memory: Making Sense of Trauma Between Postmemory and Cultural Memory. Australian Critical Race and Whiteness Studies Association Journal. 1: 53-71.
  • Stratton, J. 2005. Pissed on Another Planet: The Perth Sound of the 1970s and 1980s. Perfect Beat: The Pacific Journal for Research into Contemporary Music and Popular Culture 7(2): 36-60.
  • Stratton, J. 2005. Jews, punk and the Holocaust: from the Velvet Underground to the Ramones - the Jewish-American story. Popular Music 24(1): 79-105.
  • Stratton, J. 2005. Buffy the Vampire Slayer: What Being Jewish has to do with it. Television and New Media 6: 176-199.
  • Stratton, J. 2004. Texts and Their Contexts. Interpretations Vol 37, 2004: 39-41.
  • Stratton, J. 2004. The Banality of Representation: Generation, Holocaust, Signification and Empire Of The Senseless. New Formations Number 51: 80-98.
  • Stratton, J. 2004. Pub Rock and the Ballad Tradition in Australian Popular Music. Perfect Beat: The Pacific Journal for Research into Contemporary Music and Popular Culture Vol 6 No 4: 28-54.
  • Stratton, J. 2003. Whiter Rock: the 'Australian sound' and the beat boom. Continuum: Journal of Media and Cultural Studies 17: 331-346.
  • Stratton, J. 2003. 'It almost needn't have been the Germans': the state, colonial violence and the Holocaust. European Journal of Cultural Studies 6(4): 507-527.
  • Stratton, J. 2001. Not really white--again: performing Jewish difference in Hollywwod films since the 1980s. Screen 42, no 2: 142-166.

Fully written papers (Refereed Conference proceedings)

  • Stratton, J. 2009. "A West Indian? You Must Be Joking! I Come Out Of The East End": Kenny Lynch and English Racism in the 1950s and 1960s. Annual Conference of the Australia and New Zealand chapter of the International Association for the Study of Popular Music (IASPM-ANZ), 28/11/2008. Griffith University, Queensland: IASPM-ANZ.
  • Stratton, J. 2009. Familiarising the English with Ska: 'My Boy Lollipop' and English Popular Music. IASPM Australia and New Zealand Conference, 27/11/2009. Auckland: IASPM-ANZ Dunedin.
  • Stratton, J. 2008. The Reassertion of the English Popular Music Tradition in English Popular Music in the 1960s. IASPM Australia/New Zealand Conference, 30/11/2007. Dunedin, New Zealand: IASPM Australia/New Zealand, Dunedin.