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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 1950's and 1960s'

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    Stratton, Jon
    Date
    2012
    Type
    Journal Article
    
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    Stratton, Jon. 2012. 'A West Indian? You must be joking! I come out of the East End': Kenny Lynch and English racism in the 1950s and 1960s. Popular Music History. 5 (3): pp. 305-326.
    Source Title
    Popular Music History
    DOI
    10.1558/pomh.v5i3.305
    ISSN
    1740-7133
    URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/36255
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    Abstract

    Kenny Lynch was the first successful black British pop singer. Lynch moved from singing jazz standards to popular music in 1960. By the mid-1960s, when his popularity as a singer declined, Lynch was on his way to becoming the most well-known black, British-born, all-round entertainer in Britain. He worked as a song-writer, an actor in films and as a stand-up comedian. As Lynch developed his successful career, Britain was in the grip of a race-based scare about West Indian, and South Asian, immigration. There has been little work published on post-Second World War British-born popular singers before the era of the post-1948 West Indian migration. This article explores the racial context of Lynch’s success and explores the positioning of Lynch as a British-born black man.

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