Jon Stratton – Human Frailty
Jon Stratton – Human Frailty book (cover)
Jon Stratton provides an academic insight into and review of the Hunters and Collectors album Human Frailty.
Released In: [USA] [Australia / NZ].
Release Date: [USA] 9 March 2023 [Australia / NZ] 1 June 2023.
Availability: Moderately common. Available new in digital and book forms.
Value: A$20-A$30.
Version: Bloomsbury Publishing softcover book.
Total book length: 136 pages.
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: Where It All Began
- 1. Apocalyptic Visions and Road Stories
- 2. The Inner-City Sound, Pub Rock, and Oz Rock
- 3. Throw Your Arms Around Me
- 4. The Other Tracks
- 5. After Human Frailty
- References
- Index
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Description
Released in 1986, Hunters and Collectors’ album Human Frailty is one of the most important Australian albums of the last two decades of the twentieth century. It was pivotal in the group’s career and marked the group’s move into pub rock. It is unashamedly concerned with love and desire. The album challenged traditional understandings of Australian masculinity while playing music to predominantly male audiences. No other Australian group would have dared, or indeed been able, to get their audience to roar ‘You don’t make me feel like a woman anymore,’ the culminating line off Hunan Frailty’s first track, and the first single taken from the album, “Say Goodbye”. The second track on the album, “Throw Your Arms Around Me” has become an Australian standard, an anthem sung drunkenly more by women than men, in pubs, at weddings and similar occasions. Human Frailty is an album that transcended the critical categories of its time.
About the author
Jon Stratton
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Jon Stratton is Adjunct Professor in the School of Creative Industries at the University of South Australia. He has worked at universities in the UK and Australia and held a Rockefeller Fellowship at the University of Iowa in 1998. His areas of interest include Popular Music, Cultural Studies, Australian Studies, Jewish Cultural Studies and Media Studies. He is the sole author of eleven books and has co-edited two. In 2002 he published Australian Rock: Essays on Popular Music. His most recent books included Black Popular Music in Britain since 1945 (edited with Nabeel Zuberi, 2014), and When Music Migrates: Crossing British and European Racial Faultlines 1945-2010 (2014).
Product Details
Format Paperback | 128 pages
Dimensions 127 x 197 x 25.4mm | 453.59g
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint Bloomsbury Academic USA
Publication City/Country New York, United States
Language English
ISBN10 1501397842
ISBN13 9781501397844
