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Presentations and Publications (to December 2016)
PAPERS AT MAJOR CONFERENCES
2016 11th Crossroads in Cultural Studies Conference, Sydney: ‘Whatever Happened to
Multiculturalism?: Here Come theHabibs!, Race, Identity, and Representation.’
2016 ‘Isolated Musics, Connected Musics’, International Association for the Study of
Popular Music (Aus/NZ chapter), Mackay: ‘Perth; Unreal City: Perth in the
song lyrics of artists from elsewhere.’
2011 ‘Routes—Roots—Routines’, International Association for the Study of Popular
Music (Aus/NZ chapter), Wellington: ‘‘Police On My Back’ and the
Postcolonial Experience’.
2009 ‘What’s It Worth: ‘Value’ and Popular Music’, International Association for the
Study of Popular Music (Aus/NZ chapter), Auckland: ‘Chris Blackwell, Millie
and the Skaification of Popular Music.’
2009 Asian-Australian Identities 3 Conference, Perth: ‘Preserving White
Hegemony.’ (Keynote speaker)
2008 ‘Stuck in the Middle: The Mainstream and Its Discontents,’ International
Association for the Study of Popular Music (Aus/NZ chapter), Brisbane: ‘‘A
West Indian? You must be joking. I come from the East End.’: Kenny Lynch
and Everyday English Racism in the Early 1960s.’
2007 ‘Music on the Edge,’ International Association for the Study of Popular Music
(Aus/NZ chapter), Dunedin: ‘Music Hall and the Englishness of English
Popular Music in the 1960s.’
2007 Australian Music Scenes Seminar, Centre for Public Culture and Ideas, Griffith
University, Brisbane: ‘The Western Australian Difference: Popular Music in
Perth.’ (Invited speaker).
2007 Imagined Australia: Symposium at the Monash University Centre, Prato:
‘Dying To Come To Australia.’ (Invited speaker and invited member of
conference steering committee)
2006 The Border Politics of Whiteness Conference, Sydney: ‘Dying To Come To
Australia: Wolf Creek and Australia’s Loss of Ethics.’
2006 5th International Crossroads in Cultural Studies Conference, Istanbul: ‘The
Scientists and Grunge: Influence and Globalised Flows’
2005 Contemporary Popular Music Studies; IASPM AUS/NZ conference,
Wellington: ‘Australian Popular Music and an Aesthetics of Pleasure.’
2004 Cultural Studies Association of Australia conference, Perth: ‘”Pissed on
Another Planet”: Dave Warner and Perth Popular Music in the Late 1970s.’
2004 16th Annual Australian Association of Jewish Studies conference, Melbourne:
‘Why Were the Sixties so Jewish?’
2003 Cultural Studies Association of Australia conference, Christchurch, New
Zealand: ‘Jews, Punk and the Holocaust.’

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2003 Sonic Synergies: Creative Cultures (incorporating the 10th conference of the
Australia-New Zealand branch of the International Association for the Study of
Popular Music), Adelaide: ‘Why the Easybeats Failed in England: The
Importance of the Australian Music Sensibility.’
2002 Cultural Studies Association of Australia conference, Melbourne: ‘Before
Holocaust Memory: Making Sense of Trauma Between Postmemory and
Cultural Memory.’
2002 The 2nd Whiteness Conference; Critical and Crucial Conversations: Whiteness
and Race, Gold Coast: ‘Borderline Anxieties: Whitening the Irish and Keeping
Out Asylum Seekers.’ (Keynote speaker)
2001 Cultural Studies Association of Australia conference, Hobart: ‘Buffy the
Vampire Slayer: What Being Jewish Has To Do with It.’
2000 Cultural Studies Association of Australia conference, Brisbane: ‘Not Just
Another Multicultural Story: The Ethnicisation of the English in Australian
Multiculturalism.’
2000 3rd International Crossroads in Cultural Studies Conference, Birmingham: ‘Not
Really White—Again: Performing the Jew in 1980s/90s Hollywood Films.’
1999 Cultural Studies Association of Australia conference, Sydney: ‘’I Don’t Like
It’: Pauline Pantsdown and the Politics of Inauthenticity.’
1999 Outside/In: US Studies in a Global Context; The International Forum for US
Studies, 1999 Capstone Conference, University of Iowa: ‘‘Seinfeld Is a Jewish
SitCom, Isn’t It?’ Ethnicity and Assimilation on 1990s’ American Television.’
1999 Culture, Place, and the Cultures of Displacement; Illinois Program for Research
in the Humanities, University of Illinois: ‘More Than Average Fear: Ghetto
Thinking and Everyday Life.’ (plenary speaker)
1998 The Future of Australian Multiculturalism Conference, Sydney:
‘Multiculturalism and the Whitening Machine.’ (invited speaker)
1998 Cultural Studies Association of Australia Conference, Adelaide: ‘‘Seinfeld Is a
Jewish SitCom, Isn’t It?’ Ethnicity and Representation in the 1990s.’
1998 Adventures of Identity Conference, Sydney: ‘Jews, Multiculturalism and
Diaspora: Questions of Identity.’
1997 Australian and South Pacific Association for Comparative Literary Studies
Conference, Fremantle: ‘Narrativising National Identity in the ‘90s:
Multiculturalism in Australian Films.’
1997 Humanities Research Centre, Australian National University, Canberra.
Colloquium on Race and Nation in Australia: ‘The Politics of Race,
Multiculturalism and Nation in Australia.’ (Invited guest speaker.)
1996 Research Centre in Intercommunal Studies, University of Western Sydney.
(Im)Purity: Critical Hybridity and Transculturation conference ‘The Impossible
Ethnic: Jews and Multiculturalism in Australia.’ (Invited guest speaker.)
1996 Virtual Informational Digital, Murdoch University. ‘Email Affairs.’

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1996 Australian Cultural Studies Association Conference, Perth: ‘Not Really
Desiring Bodies: The Rise and Rise of Email Affairs.’
1996 Isaac and Jessie Kaplan Centre, University of Cape Town. Jewries at the
Frontier; international conference: ‘The Colour of Jews: Jews, Race and the
White Australia Policy.’
1996 1st Crosssroads in Cultural Studies Conference, Tampere, Finland: ‘On the
Absence of a Jewish Speaking Position in (British) Cultural Studies.’
1994 East-West Center, Honolulu, Multiculturalism in Global Perspective Lecture
Series. Ien Ang and Jon Stratton ‘The Singapore Way of Multiculturalism:
Modern Concepts/Asian Cultures’.
1993 Australian Cultural Studies Association Conference, Melbourne; Jon Stratton
and Ien Ang ‘Stuart Hall’s Identity: Race, Speaking Position and the Marginal
as a Theoretical Practice in British Cultural Studies.’
1993 Cultural Studies in the Asia Pacific Region. East-West Center, Honolulu. Jon
Stratton and Ien Ang ‘Multicultural Imagined Communities.’
1993 Post-Colonial Formations: Nation, Culture, Policy. Ien Ang and Jon Stratton
‘The Asian Turn: Rethinking Western Cultural Studies Locally.’
1991 Sociological Association of Australia Conference: ‘The Serial Killer and the
Transformation of the Social’.
1991 Dismantle/Fremantle—An International Cultural Studies Conference:
‘Landscapes: A Comparison of the Land in Central and Western Desert Art and
in European Landscape Painting’.
1985 Sociological Association of Australia and New Zealand Conference, Brisbane:
‘Sociology and the Category of Culture or Why There is No Such Thing as
Australian Sociology’.
1983 Sociological Association of Australia and New Zealand Conference: ‘Two
Commodity Oriented Youth Subcultures: Surfies and Bikies’.
1982 Sociological Association of Australia and New Zealand Conference, Sydney:
‘Mythic Structures in Mad Max and Mad Max 2’.
1982 Australian and South Pacific Association for Comparative Literary Studies
Conference, Deakin University: ‘The Narration of Confinement’.
1980 Essex University, Sociology of Literature Conference: ‘Law and the Ideology
of Order: The Problem of Knowledge in T Hobbes, Leviathan’.
1979 British Sociological Association Conference: ‘The Use of Literacy and the
Emergence of Law in Ancient Greece’.
1977 Oxford Conference on Socio-legal Studies: ‘Literacy and Law in Ancient
Israel’.

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PUBLIC LECTURES, SEMINARS, TALKS AND PODCASTS
2009 Guest speaker at the Creative Salon for media personnel working at the Perth
Festival.
2007 Keynote speaker at the Cultural Transformations Symposium, University of
Otago: ‘Popular Music in Perth in the 1970s and 1980s.’
2007 Podcast for the Robertson Library, Curtin University of Technology, on
Australian multiculturalism and popular music. On the web at:
http://apps.library.curtin.edu.au/blogs/public/index.php/2007/10/09/opinion_a
ustralian_popular_music_and_mul .
2007 Podcast for the Robertson Library, Curtin University of Technology, on the
reasons for the specificity of Perth rock music. On the web at:
http://library.curtin.edu.au/podcast/opinion.html .
2006 Edith Cowan University, Australian National Identity Research Seminar;
Keynote Speaker: ‘Dying To Come To Australia: Asylum Seekers, Tourists and
Death.’
2006 Curtin Art Gallery, Curtin University of Technology; ‘Pop Art/Pop Music and
the 1960s.’
2002 University of Cape Town, English Department: Seminar presentation entitled
‘Pub Rock and the Ballad Tradition in Australian Popular Music’
2002 University of Cape Town, Isaac and Jessie Kaplan Centre: Seminar presentation
entitled ‘It Almost Needn’t Have Been the Germans: The Holocaust and
Colonial Extermination.’
2002 Istituto Universitario Orientale; Naples: Seminar Presentation entitled ‘The
Holocaust Is Everywhere’ and ‘It Almost Needn’t Have Been the Germans: The
Holocaust and Colonial Extermination.’
2002 University of East London, Research Seminar in The School of Cultural and
Innovation Studies entitled ‘Whiter Rock: Why The Easybeats Failed in
England.’
2002 University of Essex, English Department: Seminar presentation entitled ‘It
Almost Needn’t Have Been the Germans: The Holocaust and Colonial
Extermination.’
1998 Founders College, York University, Toronto. Lecture by Ien Ang and Jon
Stratton entitled ‘Multiculturalism in Crisis: The New Politics of Race and
National Identity in Australia.’
1998 Agudas Achim Congregation, Iowa City. Talk entitled ‘Thinking Through
Assimilation: Tales from Personal Experience.’
1998 Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities, University of Illinois, Urbana-
Champaign. Lecture entitled ‘(Dis)Placing the Jews: Historicizing the Idea of
Diaspora.’
1998 Center for Cultural Studies, University of California, Santa Cruz. Seminar
presentation entitled ‘Diaspora is to Migration as Multiculturalism is to
Assimilation: Making Space for Jews in America.’

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1998 International Forum for United States’ Studies and the Department of American
Studies, University of Iowa. Lecture entitled ‘(Dis)Placing the Jews:
Historicizing the Idea of Diaspora.’
1996 Art Gallery of Western Australia. Lecture to compliment the Brett Whiteley
Retrospective: ‘Brett Whiteley - the Last Romantic.’
Readings
1997 Katherine Susannah Pritchard House, ‘I’m Not a Racist in any Sense of that
Word: Pauline Hanson and the Meaning of Race.’
Facilitator
2004 Chair and Facilitator for ‘In Conversation’ session at the Perth International
Arts Festival with Linton Kwesi Johnson (dub poet), Dennis Morris
(photographer), Dennis Bovell (musician).
PUBLICATIONS
Books and Journal Special Issues
Jews, Race and Popular Music Ashgate Press, republished in paperback by Routledge 2016.
Andy Bennett and Jon Stratton eds. Britpop and the English Music Tradition Ashgate,
republished in paperback by Routledge 2016.
Jon Stratton and Peter Beilharz eds. Special issue of Thesis Eleven on Western Australia
Way Out West: Mapping Western Australia, vol 135, no 1, 2016
Jon Stratton and Nabeel Zuberi eds. Black Popular Music in Britain since 1945 Ashgate, 2014.
Republished by Routledge 2016.
When Music Migrates: Crossing British and European Racial Faultlines 1945-2010 Ashgate,
2014
Uncertain Lives: Culture, Race and Neoliberalism in Australia Cambridge Scholars
Publishing, 2011.
Andy Bennett and Jon Stratton eds. Britpop and the English Music Tradition Ashgate, 2010.
Republished by Routledge 2016.
Jews, Race and Popular Music Ashgate Press, 2009.
Suvendrini Perera and Jon Stratton eds. The Border, the Asylum Seeker and the State of
Exception, special issue of Continuum: Journal of Media and Cultural Studies, vol
23, no 5, 2009.
Andy Bennett, Jon Stratton and Richard Peterson eds. Australian Music Scenes, special issue
of Continuum: Journal of Media and Cultural Studies, vol 22, no 5, 2008.
Jewish Identity in Western Pop Culture: The Holocaust and Trauma through Modernity
Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.
Australian Rock: Essays on Popular Music, API—Network Books, 2007.
Coming Out Jewish: Constructing Ambivalent Identities, Routledge, 2000.

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Paperback edition of The Desirable Body: Cultural Fetishism and the Erotics of Consumption
University of Illinois Press, 2000
Race Daze: Australia in Identity Crisis, Pluto Australia, 1998.
The Desirable Body: Cultural Fetishism and the Erotics of Consumption, Manchester
University Press, 1996.
The Young Ones: Working Class Culture, Consumption and the Category of Youth. Black
Swan Press, 1992
Writing Sites: A Genealogy of the Postmodern World Harvester in association with University
of Michigan Press, 1990.
The Virgin Text: Fiction, Sexuality and Ideology Harvester in association with Oklahoma
University Press, 1987.
F. Barker, J. Stratton et al. eds Proceedings of the 1980 Essex Sociology of Literature
Conference, Colchester, 1981.
Chapters in Books
‘Punk and the Holocaust / Punk und der Holocaust’ in Marcus G. Patka and Alfred Stalzer eds.
Stars of David: Jews and Popular Music: Der Sound des 20. Jahrhunderts, 2016, pp.
226-236. Chapter is in German and English.
‘Singing from Difference: Jewish Singer-Songwriters in the 1960s and 1970s’ in Amalia
Ran
and Moshe Morad eds. “Mazal Tov, Amigos!” Jews and Popular Music in the
Americas, Brill, 2016, pp. 86-108.
‘Jewish Identity and Modernity’ in John Stone and Xiaoshuo Hou eds. The Blackwell
Encyclopedia of Race, Ethnicity and Nationalism 2016.
‘Popular Music, Race and Identity’ in Andy Bennett and Steve Waksman eds. The Sage
Handbook of Popular Music, Sage, 2015, pp. 381-400.
‘Melting Pot: The Making of Black British Music in the 1950s and 1960s’ in Jon Stratton and
Nabeel Zuberi Black Popular Music in Britain since 1945, Ashgate, 2014, pp. 27-45.
Jon Stratton and Nabeel Zuberi ‘Black Popular Music in Britain since 1945: An Introduction’
in Stratton and Zuberi Black Popular Music in Britain since 1945, Ashgate, 2014.
‘Television Blackface: Jews, Race and Comedy in the UK and Australia’ in Laurence Roth and
Nadia Valman eds. The Routledge Handbook to Contemporary Jewish Cultures,
Routledge, 2014, pp. 224-235.
Jennifer Craik and Jon Stratton ‘Fashioning Music Culture Through Performance’ in Suzanne
Davies ed. Music, Melbourne and Me, RMIT Gallery, 2014, pp. 31-38. (This is one of
the catalogue essays for Music, Melbourne and Me: 40 years of Mushroom &
Melbourne’s Popular Music Culture)
‘‘Ob-La-Di Ob-La-Da’ Paul McCartney, Diaspora and the Politics of Identity’ in Oli Wilson
and Sarah Attfield Shifting Sounds: Musical Flow: A Collection of Papers from the
2012 IASPM Australia/New Zealand Conference, 2013, IASPM Australia/New
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‘Jewish Music in America’ in Jacqueline Edmondson ed. Music in American Life: An
Encyclopedia of the Songs, Styles, Stars, and Stories That Shaped Our Culture,
American Bibliographic Company; Clio Press, 2013, pp. 612-615.
‘‘Police On My Back’ and the Postcolonial Experience in Britain’ in Liz Giuffre and Penny
Spirou eds Routes, Roots and Routines: Selected papers from the 2011 Australia New
Zealand IASPM conference, pp. 94-101, published 2012.
Reprint of ‘Bodgies and Widgies: Just Working Class Kids Doing Working Class Things’ in
Rob White ed. Youth Subcultures: Theory, History and the Australian Experience,
National Clearinghouse For Youth Studies, 1993, pp. 87-91 (reprinted 1998). 2nd,
Revised Edition, 2012.
‘The Travels of Johnny Reggae: From Jonathan King to Prince Far-I; From Skinhead to
Rasta’ in Instruments of Change: IASPM Australia-New Zealand Conference
Proceedings, 2010, Monash University, 2011, pp. 137-141.
Reprint of ‘Youth Subcultures and Their Cultural Contexts’, in Chris Rojek ed. Popular
Music, vol 4, Sage, 2011.
‘Familiarising the English with Ska: ‘My Boy Lollipop’ and English Popular Music’ in
Shelley D Brunt and Kirsten Zemke eds. What's It Worth?: 'Value' and Popular
Music; Selected Papers from the 2009 IASPM Australia-New Zealand Conference,
IASPM Dunedin, 2010, pp. 64-66.
Reprint of ‘Preserving White Hegemony: Skilled Migration, ‘Asians’ and Middle-Class
Assimilation’ in Suvendrini Perera, Graham Seal and Sue Summers eds. Enter at own
Risk: Australia’s Population Questions for the 21st Century, Black Swan Books,
2010.
‘Introduction’ by Andy Bennett and Jon Stratton in Andy Bennett and Jon Stratton eds.
Britpop and the English Music Tradition, Ashgate, 2010, pp. 1-7.
‘Skiffle, Variety and Englishness’ in Andy Bennett and Jon Stratton eds. Britpop and the
English Music Tradition, Ashgate, 2010, pp. 27-40.
‘Englishing Popular Music in the 1960s’ in Andy Bennett and Jon Stratton eds. Britpop and
the English Music Tradition, Ashgate, 2010, pp. 41-54.
‘Miami Vice’ in David Lavery ed. The Essential Cult TV Reader, University Press of
Kentucky, 2010, pp. 159-165.
Reprint of ‘What is Popular Music’ in Chris Rojek ed. Celebrity: Critical Concepts in
Sociology, vol 4, Routledge, 2009, pp. 121-136.
‘“A West Indian? You must be joking! I come out of the East End.” Kenny Lynch and
English racism in the 1950s and 1960s’ in Catherine Strong and Michelle Phillipov
eds. Stuck in the Middle: The Mainstream and Its Discontents; Selected Proceedings
of the 2008 IASPM-ANZ Conference, 2009, pp. 68-75.

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Reprint of ‘Dying To Come To Australia’ in Renata Summo-O’Connell ed. Imagined
Australia: Reflections around the reciprocal construction of identity between
Australia and Europe, Peter Lang, 2009, pp. 57-87.
‘Youth Culture’ entry in Jenny Gregory and Jan Gothard eds. The Historical Encyclopedia of
Western Australia, University of Western Australia Press, 2009.
Reprint of ‘Suburban Stories: Dave McComb and the Perth Experience’ in Chris Coughlan
and Niall Lucy eds. Vagabond Holes, Freemantle Press, 2009, pp. 35-45. [abridged
version of full article that appeared in Continuum, qv].
Reprint of ‘Asianing Australia: Notes Towards a Critical Transnationalism in Cultural
Studies’ by Ien Ang and Jon Stratton in Amit Sarwal and Reema Sarwal eds. Creative
Nation: Australian Cinema and Culture Studies, SSS Publications, 2009, pp. 314-336.
‘The Murderous State: The Naturalisation of Violence and Exclusion in the Films of Neo-
Liberal Australia’ in Amit Sarwal and Reema Sarwal eds. Creative Nation: Australian
Cinema and Culture Studies, SSS Publications, 2009, pp. 180-201.
‘The Brill Building Composers’ in Jack Fischel ed. The Jewish Encyclopedia of Pop Culture,
Greenwood Press, 2008.
‘The Reassertion of the English Popular Music Tradition in the English Popular Music in the
1960s’ in Dan Bendrups ed. Music on the Edge: Selected Papers from the 2007 IASPM
Australia/ New Zealand Conference, IASPM Australia/New Zealand, 2008, pp. 162-
167.
‘The Idol Audience: Judging, Interactivity and Entertainment’ in Gerry Bloustien ed. Sonic
Synergies: Music, Identity, Technology and Community, Ashgate, 2008, pp. 157-168.
Series Introduction for Aileen Moreton-Robinson ed. Sovereign Subjects: Indigenous
Sovereignty Matters, Allen and Unwin, 2007, pp. vii-ix.
‘Dying To Come To Australia: Asylum Seekers, Tourists and Death’ in Suvendrini Perera ed.
Our Patch: Enacting Australian Sovereignty Post-2001, API-Network Books, 2007,
pp. 167-196.
‘“So Tonight I’m Gonna Party Like It’s 1999”: Looking Forward To the Matrix’ in Myriam
Diocaretz and Stefan Herbrechter eds. The Matrix in Theory, Rodopi, 2006, pp. 27-51.
Reprint of an abridged version of ‘Seinfeld Is a Jewish Sitcom, Isn’t It? Ethnicity and
Assimilation on 1990s American Television’ (Chapter Ten of Coming Out Jewish) in
David Lavery and Sara Lewis Dunne eds Master of Its Domain: Revisiting Seinfeld,
TV's Greatest Show, Continuum, 2006, pp. 117-136.
‘Lost in Music: Popular Music, Film and Multiculturalism’ in Rebecca Coyle ed. Reel
Tracks:
Australian Feature Film Music and Cultural Identities, John Libbey, 2005, pp74-93.
Also co-published by Indiana University Press.
‘Borderline Anxieties: Whitening the Irish and Keeping Out Asylum Seekers’ in Aileen
Moreton-Robinson ed. Whitening Race: Essays in Social and Cultural Criticism,
Aboriginal Studies Press, 2004, pp. 222-238

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Reprint of ‘Between Two Worlds: Art and Commercialism in the Record Industry’ in Simon
Frith ed. Popular Music: Critical Concepts in Media and Cultural Studies, vol 2, ‘The
Rock Era’, Routledge, 2004, pp7-23.
Reprint of extract of Jon Stratton and Ien Ang ‘Multicultural Imagined Communities’ in Tim
Jordan and Steve Pile eds. Social Change, Blackwell, 2002, pp. 81-83. [This is an Open
University textbook].
Reprint of ‘The Color of Jews in Australia: Jews, Race, and the White Australia Policy’ in
Peter Beilharz ed. Zygmunt Bauman, vol. 4, Sage, 2002, pp 237-259.
Reprint of ‘Multiculturalism in Crisis: The New Politics of Race and National Identity in
Australia’ by Ien Ang and Jon Stratton in Ien Ang On Not Speaking Chinese: Living
Between Asia and the West, Routledge, 2001, pp 95-111.
‘La république imaginée: L’identité nationale australienne et le républicanisme des années
1990’ in Caroline Mackenzie ed. Australie: Autoportraits, 2000. This is a translation
of Chapter Five of Race Daze.
Reprint of ‘Cyberspace and the Globalization of Culture’ in David Bell ed. The Cybercultures
Reader, Routledge, 2000, pp 721-731.
Reprint of ‘The Beast of the Apocalypse: The Postcolonial Experience of the United States’ in
Richard King ed. Postcolonial America, University of Illinois Press, 2000, pp 21-51.
‘Postcoloniality, Race and the Land of New Promise’ in Richard King ed. Postcolonial
America, University of Illinois Press, 2000, pp 51-64.
Reprint of section from Jon Stratton and Ien Ang ‘Sylvania Waters and the Spectacular
Exploding Family’ in Paul Marris and Sue Thornham eds. Media Studies: A Reader
(2nd ed.), Edinburgh University Press, 1999, pp 611-620.
‘The Color of Jews in Australia: Jews, Race and the White Australia Policy’ in Sander Gilman
and Milton Shain eds. Jewries at the Frontier: Accommodation, Identity, Conflict,
University of Illinois Press, 1999, pp 309-334.
‘Multiculturalism and the Whitening Machine, or How Australians Become White’ in Ghassan
Hage and Rowanne Couch eds. The Future of Australian Multiculturalism: Reflections
on the Twentieth Anniversary of Jean Martin’s The Migrant Presence, Research
Institute for Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Sydney, 1999, pp 163-188.
‘Building a Better Body: Male Bodybuilding, Spectacle and Consumption’ in Toby Miller and
Randy Martin eds. SportCult, Minnesota University Press, 1999, pp 151-172.
Reprint of ‘Multicultural Imagined Communities: Cultural Difference and National Identity in
Australia and the U.S.A.’ by Jon Stratton and Ien Ang, in David Bennett ed.
Multicultural States: Rethinking Difference and Identity, Routledge, 1998, pp. 135-162.
‘The Imagined Republic: Australia, National Identity and the 1990s Republican Debate’ in
Xavier Pons and Corinne Smit eds. Le débat républicain en Australie. Ellipses, 1997,
pp. 151-162.
‘Cyberspace and the Globalization of Culture’ in David Porter ed. Internet Culture, Routledge,
1997, pp. 253-275.
Reprint of section of ‘Youth Subcultures and Their Cultural Contexts’ in Ken Gelder and Sarah
Thornton eds. The Subcultures Reader, Routledge 1997, pp. 181-190.

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‘On the Impossibility of a Global Cultural Studies: “British” Cultural Studies in an
“International” Frame.’ by Jon Stratton and Ien Ang in Kuan-Hsing Chen and David
Morley eds. Critical Dialogues: Cultural Studies, Marxism and Postmodernism in the
Writings of Stuart Hall, Routledge, 1996, pp. 361-391.
‘Straddling East and West: Singapore’s paradoxical search for a national identity’ by Ien Ang
and Jon Stratton in Suvendrini Perera ed. Asian and Pacific Inscriptions: Identities,
Ethnicities, Nationalities, Meridian/Hyland House, 1995 pp. 179-192.
‘The End of Civilization as We Knew It: Chances and the Postrealist Soap Opera’ by Ien Ang
and Jon Stratton in Robert Allen ed. To Be Continued: Soap Operas Around the World.
Routledge 1995 pp. 122-144.
‘Speaking (as) Black British: race, nation and cultural studies in Britain’ by Jon Stratton and
Ien Ang in David English and Penny van Toorn Speaking Positions: Aboriginality,
Gender and Ethnicity in Australian Cultural Studies Victoria University of Technology
Press, 1995 pp. 14-30.
‘Bodgies and Widgies: Just Working Class Kids Doing Working Class Things’ in Rob White
ed. Youth Subcultures: Theory, History and the Australian Experience, National
Clearinghouse For Youth Studies, 1993, pp. 87-91 (reprinted 1998).
‘Crossing the Border: Tourism and Late Capitalism’ in D. Rowe and G. Lawrence (ed) Sport
and Leisure, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1990, pp. 244-261.
‘Australia—This Sporting Life’ in G. Lawrence and D. Rowe (eds), Power Play: Essays in
Australian Sport, Hale & Iremonger, 1986, pp. 85-114.
‘The Narration of Confinement (Richardson’s Clarissa and Poe’s The Fall of the House of
Usher)’ in S. Gunew and I. Reid (eds) Not the Whole Story, Sydney, 1984, pp. 57-64.
‘Capitalism and Romantic Ideology in the Record Business’ in R. Middleton (ed) Popular
Music, vol 3, Cambridge, 1983, pp. 143-156.
‘Law and the Ideology of Order: The Problem of Knowledge in T. Hobbes Leviathan’ in F.
Barker, J. Stratton et al (eds) Proceedings of the 1980 Essex Sociology of Literature
Conference, Colchester: 1981, pp. 258-273.
Articles
(*all articles are in refereed journals unless signalled by *)
‘Perth Cultural Studies: A Brief and Partial Intellectual History’ in Thesis Eleven, vol 137, no
1, 2016, pp. 83-105.
‘Whatever Happened to Multiculturalism?: Here Come the Habibs!, Race, Identity, and
Representation’ in Continuum: Journal of Media and Cultural Studies, online 2016.
‘With God on Our Side: Christianity, Whiteness, Islam and Otherness in the Australian
Experience’ in Continuum: Journal of Media and Cultural Studies, vol 30, no 6, 2016,
pp. 613-626.
Jon Stratton and Peter Beilharz ‘Way Out West: Mapping Western Australia’ Introduction to
special issue Thesis Eleven vol 135, no 1, 2016, pp. 3-13.

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Jon Stratton and Adam Trainer 'Nothing Happens Here: Songs about Perth’ in Thesis Eleven,
vol 135, no 1, 2016, pp. 34-50.
‘Sampling and Jewishness: A Short History of Jewish Sampling, and its Relationship with Hip
Hop.’ in Shofar, 2016, pp. 50-75.
‘Putting the Fragments (Back) Together: Towards a Theorisation of Jewish Sampling’ in Social
Identities 2016, pp. 1-16.
‘Whiteness, Morality, and Christianity in Australia’ in Journal of Intercultural Studies, vol 37,
no 1. 2016, 17-43.
‘Die Sheldon Die: The Big Bang Theory, Everyday Neoliberalism and Sheldon as Neoliberal
Man’ in Journal for Cultural Research, vol 20, no 2, 2016, pp. 171-188.
‘Playing the Jew: Anti-Semitism and Football in the 21st Century’ in Jewish Culture and
History, vol 16, no 3, 2016, pp. 1-19.
‘The Price of Love: The Big Bang Theory, the Family and Neoliberalism’ in European
Journal of Cultural Studies, vol 19, no 2, 2016, pp. 170-187.
‘The Sapphires were not the Australian Supremes: Neoliberalism, History and Pleasure’ in
The Sapphires’ in Continuum: Journal of Media and Cultural Studies, vol 29, no 1,
2015, pp. 17-31.
‘Judge Dread: Music Hall Traditionalist or Postcolonial Hybrid’ in Contemporary British
History, vol 28, no 1, 2014, pp. 81-102.
‘‘Ob-La-Di Ob-La-Da’: Paul McCartney, Diaspora and the Politics of Identity’, in Journal
for Cultural Research, vol 18, no 1, 2014, pp. 1-24.
‘Coming To the Fore: The audibility of women’s sexual pleasure in popular music and the
sexual revolution’ in Popular Music, vol 33, no 1, 2014, pp. 109-128.
‘‘Police On My Back’ and the Postcolonial Experience’ in Social Identities, vol 9, no 5, 2013,
pp. 536-551.
‘Whose Home; Which Island?: Displacement and Identity in ‘My Island Home’’ in Perfect
Beat: The Pacific Journal for Research into Contemporary Music and Popular
Culture, vol 14, no 1, 2013, pp. 33-53.
‘Other Bodies: Other lives; Other Deaths’ (Introduction) in borderlands vol 12, no 1, 2013 on
the web at: http://www.borderlands.net.au/vol12no1_2013/stratton_intro.pdf
‘The Western Australian Police Headquarters Building: Surveillance, Power and the
Authoritarian State’ in Cultural Studies Review, vol 19, no2, 2013, pp. 261-289 on the
web at: http://epress.lib.uts.edu.au/journals/index.php/csrj/article/view/2723
‘Rachid Taha and the Postcolonial Presence in French Popular Music’ in Performing Islam
vol 1, no 2, 2013, pp 185-206.

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‘‘A West Indian? You must be joking! I come out of the East End’: Kenny Lynch and
English racism in the 1950s and 1960s’ in Popular Music History, vol 5, no 3, 2010
[pub 2012], pp. 305-326.
‘The Travels of Johnny Reggae: From Jonathan King to Prince Far-I; From Skinhead to
Rasta’ in Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies, vol 9, no 1, 2012, pp. 1-20
‘Skin Deep: Ska, and Reggae, on the Racial Faultline in Britain, 1968-1981’ in Popular
Music History, vol 5, no 2, 2010 [pub 2011], pp. 191-215.
‘The Jackson Jive: Blackface Today and the Limits of Whiteness in Australia’ in Journal of
the European Association for Studies on Australia, vol 2, no 2, 2011, pp. 22-41. See:
http://www.ub.edu/dpfilsa/jeasaiindexvol2no2.html .
‘Non-Citizens in the Exclusionary State: Citizenship, Mitigated Exclusion and the Cronulla
Riots’ in Continuum: Journal of Media and Cultural Studies, 2011, vol 25, no 3, pp.
299-316.
‘Zombie Trouble: Zombie Texts, Bare Life and Displaced People' in the European Journal of
Cultural Studies, vol 14, no 3, 2011, pp. 265-282.
‘Trouble with Zombies: Bare Life, Muselmänner and Displaced People’ in Somatechnics, vol
1, no 1, 2011, pp. 188-208.
‘Chris Blackwell and ‘My Boy Lollipop’: Ska, Race and British Popular Music’ in Journal of
Popular Music Studies, vol 22, no 4, 2010, pp. 436-465.
‘Buffy Failed: True Blood and the Accommodation of Vampires’ in FlowTV, vol 11, no 10,
2010, on the web at: http://flowtv.org/?p=4829 .
‘Preserving White Hegemony: Skilled Migration, ‘Asians’ and Middle-Class Assimilation’
borderlands e-journal, 2009, vol8, no 3 on the web at:
http://www.borderlands.net.au/vol8no3_2009/stratton_hegemony.htm .
‘Introduction: Heterochronotopes of exception and the frontiers and faultlines of citizenship’
by Suvendrini Perera and Jon Stratton in Continuum: Journal of Media and Cultural
Studies, vol 23, no 5, 2009, pp 585-595.
‘‘Welcome To Paradise’: Asylum Seekers, Nostalgia and Lucky Miles’ in Continuum:
Journal of Media and Cultural Studies, vol 23, no 5, 2009, pp 629-645.
‘Uncertain Lives: Migration, the Border and Neoliberalism in Australia’ in Social Identities,
vol 15, no 5, 2009, pp. 677-692.
* ‘… Surely That’s Not Racist?’ by Suvendrini Perera and Jon Stratton in The New Matilda
(newmatilda.com), June 16th, 2009, on the web at:
http://newmatilda.com/2009/06/16/surely-thats-not-racist .
‘Michael Mann’s Miami Vice: Protecting White America in the 1980s’ in Television and New
Media, vol 10, no 2, 2009, pp. 195-215.

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‘The Murderous State: The Naturalisation of Violence and Exclusion in the Films of Neo-
Liberal Australia’ (revised version) in Cultural Studies Review, 2009, vol 15, no 1,
pp.11-32.
‘Jews Dreaming of Acceptance: From the Brill Building to Suburbia with Love’ in Shofar:
An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies, vol 27, no 3, 2009, pp. 102-127.
‘The Beastie Boys: Jews in Whiteface’ in Popular Music, vol 27, no 3, 2008, pp. 413-432.
‘Brian Poole and the Tremeloes or the Yardbirds: Comparing Popular Music in Perth and
Adelaide in the Early 1960s’ in Perfect Beat: The Pacific Journal for Research into
Contemporary Music and Popular Culture, vol 9, no 1, 2008, pp. 60-77.
‘Introduction: The Scenes Perspective and the Australian Context’ by Andrew Bennett, Jon
Stratton and Richard A. Peterson in Continuum: Journal of Media and Cultural
Studies, vol 22, no 5, 2008, pp. 593-599.
‘The Difference of Perth Music: A Scene in Cultural and Historical Context’ in Continuum:
Journal of Media and Cultural Studies, vol 22, no 5, 2008, pp. 613-622.
‘A Jew Singing Like a Black Woman in Australia: Race, Renée Geyer and Marcia Hines’ in
Journal of Popular Music Studies, vol 20, no 2, 2008, pp. 167-194.
‘Suburban Stories: Dave McComb and the Perth Experience’ in Continuum: Journal of
Media and Cultural Studies, vol 22, no 2, 2008, pp. 255-267.
‘‘Do You Want To Know A Secret?’: Popular Music in Perth in the Early 1960s’ online in
Illumina: An Academic Journal for Performance, Visual Arts, Communication &
Interactive Multimedia, 2007, available at:
http://illumina.scca.ecu.edu.au/data/tmp/stratton%20j%20%20illumina%20proof%20f
inal.pdf .
‘Separation Anxiety: Zionism, Colonialism, Messianism’ in borderlands e-journal, vol 6, no
2, 2007, available at:
http://www.borderlands.net.au/vol6no2_2007/stratton_separation.htm.
‘Punk, Jews and the Holocaust—the English Story’ in Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of
Jewish Studies, special issue edited by Mikel Koven, ‘Cool Jewz: Contemporary
Jewish Identity in Popular Culture’, Vol 26, no 4, 2007, pp. 124-149.
‘‘All Rock and Rhythm and Jazz’: Rock’n’Roll Origin Stories and Race in Australia’ in
Continuum: Journal of Media and Cultural Studies, vol 21, no 3, 2007, pp. 379-392.
‘Producing an Australian Popular Music: From Stephen Foster to Jack O’Hagan’ in Journal
of Australian Studies, no 90, 2007, pp. 153-165.
‘The Triffids: The Sense of a Place’ in Popular Music and Society, vol 30, no 3, 2007, pp.
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‘Constructing an Avant Garde: Australian Popular Music and the Experience of Pleasure’ in
Popular Music History, vol 2, no 1, 2007, pp. 49-75.
‘Two Rescues, One History: Everyday Racism in Australia’ in Social Identities: Journal for
the Study of Race, Nation and Culture, vol 12, no 6, 2006, pp. 657-681.
‘Response to the Cultural Geography Symposium,’ in Geographical Research: Journal of the
Institute of Australian Geographers, vol 44, no 4. 2006, pp. 432-434.
‘Nation-Building and Australian Popular Music in the 1970s and 1980s’ in Continuum:Journal
of Media and Cultural Studies, vol 19, 2006, pp. 243-252.
‘‘Pissed On Another Planet’: The Perth Sound of the 1970s and 1980s’ in Perfect Beat: The
Pacific Journal for Research into Contemporary Music and Popular Culture, vol 7, no
2, 2005, pp36-60.
‘Buffy the Vampire Slayer: What Being Jewish Has To Do With It’ in Journal of Television &
New Media, vol 6, no 2, 2005, pp. 176-199.
‘Jews, Punk and the Holocaust: From the Velvet Underground to the Ramones—the Jewish-
American Story’ in Popular Music, vol 24, no 1, 2005, pp. 79-115.
‘Before Holocaust Memory: Making Sense of Trauma Between Postmemory and Cultural
Memory’ in Journal of the Australian Critical Race & Whiteness Studies Association,
2005, no 1, pp. 53-71, available at: http://www.acrawsa.org.au/journal/ACRAWSA1-
5.pdf .
‘Pub Rock and the Ballad Tradition in Australian Popular Music’ in Perfect Beat: The Pacific
Journal for Research into Contemporary Music and Popular Culture, vol 6, no 4, 2004,
pp. 28-54.
‘The Banality of Representation: Generation, Holocaust, Signification and The Empire of the
Senseless’ in New Formations, no 51, 2003-2004, pp. 80-98.
‘It Almost Needn’t Have Been the Germans: The Holocaust and Colonial Extermination’ in
The European Journal of Cultural Studies, 2003, vol 6, no 4, pp.507-527.
‘Whiter Rock: The ‘Australian Sound’ and the Beat Boom’ in Continuum: Journal of Media
and Cultural Studies, vol 17, no 3, 2003, pp 331-346.
Translation of “Cyberspace and the Globalisation of Culture” into Turkish as “Siber alan Ve
Kültürün Küreselleşmesi”, Cogito, sayı : 30, İstanbul, Kış 2002, sh : 81-89.
* ‘Is I Assimilated?’ on the Anglo-Jewish comic who plays Ali G, in the British Jewish
Chronicle, March 1st, 2002, p 29.
‘Not Really White—Again; Performing Jewish Difference in Hollywood Films Since the
1980s,’ in Screen, vol 42, no 2, 2001, pp142-166.
‘Not Just Another Multicultural Story: The English, From ‘Fitting In’ to Self-Ethnicisation,’ in
Journal of Australian Studies, no 66, 2000, pp 23-47, 251-255.
‘Thinking Through the Holocaust: A Discussion Inspired by Hilene Flanzbaum The
Americanization of the Holocaust Johns Hopkins 1999,’ in Continuum: Journal of
Media and Cultural Studies, vol 14, no 2, 2000, pp 231-245.
* ‘What’s Yiddish for ‘sitcom’?’ in the British Jewish Chronicle, July 28th, 2000, p 27.

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“I Don’t Like It’: Pauline Pantsdown and the Politics of the Inauthentic,’ in Perfect Beat: The
Pacific Journal for Research into Contemporary Music and Popular Culture, vol 4, no
4, 2000, pp 3-28.
Interview with Simon Hunt, aka Pauline Pantsdown, in Perfect Beat: The Pacific Journal for
Research into Contemporary Music and Popular Culture, vol 4, no 4, 2000, pp 34-44.
‘Jewishness and Identity’ in AntiTHESIS: An Annual Transdisciplinary Postgraduate Journal,
vol 10, 1999, pp 46-64. (Invited contributor).
‘Speaking as a Jew: On the Absence of a Jewish Speaking Position in British Cultural Studies’
in European Journal of Cultural Studies, vol 1, no 3, 1998, pp.307-325.
‘Multiculturalism in Crisis: The New Politics of Race and National Identity in Australia’ by
Ien Ang and Jon Stratton in Topia: Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies, vol 1, no 2,
1998, pp22-41.
‘(Dis)placing the Jews: Historicizing the Idea of Diaspora,’ in Diaspora: A Journal of
Transnational Studies, vol 6, no 3, 1997, pp 301- 329.
Reprint of ‘The Singapore Way of Multiculturalism: Western Concepts/Asian Cultures’ by Ien
Ang and Jon Stratton in New Formations, no 31, 1997, pp. 51-66.
‘Brett Whiteley: the Last Romantic’ in The UTS Review: Cultural Studies and New Writing,
vol 3, no 1, 1997, pp. 183-207.
‘Not Really Desiring Bodies: The Rise and Rise of Email Affairs’ in Media International
Australia, no. 84, 1997, pp. 28-38.
‘The Impossible Ethnic: Jews and Multiculturalism in Australia’, in Diaspora: A Journal of
Transnational Studies, vol 5, no 3, 1996, pp. 339-373.
‘The Colour of Jews: Jews, Race and the White Australia Policy’ (shortened version), in
Journal of Australian Studies, nos 50/51, 1996, pp. 51-65.
‘Man-Made Women’ Australian Humanities Review, no 3, Sept, 1996 available at:
http://www.lib.latrobe.edu.au/AHR/archive/Issue-Sept-1996/stratton.html .
* ‘Personal Report on an International Conference held at the Kaplan Centre, University of
Cape Town, 11-14 August, 1996’ in British Association for Jewish Studies Bulletin, no
23, Oct ‘96 - March ‘97, pp. 12-13.
‘A Cultural Studies Without Guarantees: Response to Kuan-Hsing Chen’ by Ien Ang and Jon
Stratton in Cultural Studies, vol 10, no 1, 1996, pp. 71-77.
‘Asianing Australia: Notes Towards a Critical Transnationalism in Cultural Studies’ by Ien
Ang and Jon Stratton in Cultural Studies, vol 10, no 1, 1996, pp. 16-36.
‘Serial Killing and the Transformation of the Social’, in Theory, Culture and Society, vol 13,
no 1, 1996, pp.77-98.
‘The Singapore Way of Multiculturalism: Western Concepts/Asian Cultures’ by Ien Ang and
Jon Stratton in Sojourn: Journal of Social Issues in Southeast Asia, vol 10, no 1, 1995,
pp. 65-89.
‘The Asian Turn’ by Ien Ang and Jon Stratton in Art and Text, no 50, 1995, pp. 28-30.

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‘Landscapes: a Comparison of the Land in Central and Western Desert Art and European
Landscape Painting’, in Theory, Culture and Society, Vol 11, no 1, 1994, pp. 95-128.
‘Sylvania Waters and the Spectacular Exploding Family’ by Jon Stratton and Ien Ang in
Screen, vol 35, no 1, 1994, pp. 1-21.
‘Multicultural Imagined Communities: Cultural Difference and National Identity in Australia
and the U.S.A.’ by Jon Stratton and Ien Ang in Continuum: Journal of Media and
Cultural Studies, vol 8, no 2, 1994, pp. 124-158.
‘(S)talking in the City: Serial Killing and Modern Life’, in Southern Review, vol 27, no 1, 1994,
pp. 7-27.
‘The End of Civilization as We Knew It: The Postmodernization of Soap Opera’ by Ien Ang
and Jon Stratton in METRO, no. 94, Winter 1993, pp. 8-16.
‘Painting the Land: Central and Western Desert Art and European Discourse’ in Eyeline.
Special ARX3 issue, 1993, pp. 36-47.
‘The Beast of the Apocalypse: The Postcolonial Experience of the United States’, in New
Formations, no.21, 1993, pp. 34-63.
* ‘De Willekeur van de Serial Killer’, in De Groene Amsterdammer, August 1991, pp. 14-15.
‘Beyond Art: Postmodernism and the Case of Popular Music’ in Theory, Culture and Society,
1989 vol. 6, no. 1, pp. 31-57.
‘Deconstructing the Northern Territory’, in Cultural Studies, vol 3, no. 1, 1989. pp. 38-57.
‘A Question of Origins’ (a historical discussion of the Aboriginal other), in Arena, 89, 1989,
pp. 133-151.
‘The Australian Working Class and the Practice of Abortion 1880-1939’ by Lyn Finch and Jon
Stratton in Journal of Australian Studies, no. 23, 1988, pp. 45-64.
‘“Watching the Detectives” - Television Melodrama and Its Genres’, in Australasian Drama
Studies, no. 10, April 1987, pp. 49-66.
‘Sociology and the Category of Culture: The Problem of Specificity’, in The Australian and
New Zealand Journal of Sociology, vol 23, 1987, pp. 246-260.
‘Why Doesn’t Anybody Write Anything About Glam Rock?’, in Australian Journal of Cultural
Studies, vol 4, no. 1, 1986, pp. 15-38.
‘This Is The (Post) Modern World’, a review article in Theory, Culture and Society, vol 3, no.
2, 1986, pp. 149-153.
‘Youth Subcultures and Their Cultural Contexts’, in The Australian and New Zealand Journal
of Sociology, vol 21, no. 2, 1985, pp. 194-218.
‘The Vanishing Text: Knowledge, Libraries and Indexing/Retrieval Systems’ in Riverina
Library Review, vol 2, no. 1, 1985, pp. 19-42.
‘Bodgies and Widgies - Youth Cultures in the 1950s’, in Journal of Australian Studies, no 15,
1984, pp. 10-24.
‘What is Popular Music?’ in Sociological Review, vol 31, no 2, 1983, pp. 293-309.

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‘What Made (Mad) Max Popular? The Mythography of a Conservative Fantasy’, in Art and
Text, no 9, Autumn 1983, pp. 37-56.
‘Between Two Worlds: Art and Commercialism in the Record Industry. The case of the British
Music Press’, in Sociological Review, vol 30, no 1, 1982, pp. 267-285.
‘Dick Hebdige/Jon Stratton. A Discussion Interview on D. Hebdige Subculture and Early ‘80s
British Youth Culture’ in Art and Text, no 8, Summer 1982, pp. 21-30.
‘Reconciling Contradictions: the Role of the Artist and Repertoire Person in the British Record
Industry’ in Popular Music and Society, vol 8, no 2, 1982, pp. 90-100.
‘Writing and the Concept of Law in Ancient Greece’, in Visible Language, vol XIV, no 2,
1980, pp. 99-121.