'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'
dc.contributor.author | Stratton, Jon | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2017-01-30T13:54:43Z | |
dc.date.available | 2017-01-30T13:54:43Z | |
dc.date.created | 2013-03-27T20:00:51Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2012 | |
dc.identifier.citation | 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. | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/36255 | |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1558/pomh.v5i3.305 | |
dc.description.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. | |
dc.publisher | Equinox Publishing Ltd | |
dc.title | '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' | |
dc.type | Journal Article | |
dcterms.source.volume | 5:3; 2010 | |
dcterms.source.startPage | 305 | |
dcterms.source.endPage | 326 | |
dcterms.source.issn | 1740-7133 | |
dcterms.source.title | Popular Music History | |
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