Jon Stratton provides a pioneering work on Jews as a racialized group in the popular music of America, Britain and Australia during the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Rather than taking a narrative, historical approach the book consists of a number of case studies, looking at the American, British and Australian music industries. Stratton's primary motivation is to uncover how the racialized positioning of Jews, which was sometimes similar but often different in each of the societies under consideration, affected the kinds of music with which Jews have become involved. Stratton explores race as a cultural construction and continues discussions undertaken in Jewish Studies concerning the racialization of the Jews and the stereotyping of Jews in order to present an in-depth and critical understanding of Jews, race and popular music.

This book was published in 2010. It follows the previously published AUSTRALIAN CHART BOOK 1970-1992, and brings the chart data up-to-date to the end of 2009. It is based on the charts of Australian Music Report from 1993 to 1998, and from specially compiled charts from 1999 to 2009. It covers the weekly National Top 100 Singles charts (1993 to 2009), and Albums charts (Top 100 from 1993 to 1998, and Top 50 from 1999 to 2009). Features include: Alphabetical Artist Listing, with singles and albums shown together. Data includes the date of first charting, title of record, artist's name, highest position reached, number of weeks charted, and, if issued in physical formats, the original label and catalogue number; Titles, listed alphabetically, cross referenced to the Artists section; All the No.1 singles and albums, listed chronologically; Top 25 singles and albums of each calendar year; Supplementary pages to "The Australian Top 20 Book 1940 to 2006" from July 2007 to March 2010; Supplementary pages to "Australian Chart Chronicles 1940-2008" for 2009.