“‘My Boy Lollipop’ was released at a moment of heightened tension over immigration and the politics of British citizenship: the years following World War II had seen an uptick in the number of migrants of color coming to England from the colonies, and by the 1960s, the government was responding to anti-immigrant sentiment by imposing new immigration restrictions…Representations of Millie Small and her voice were contradictory: in some contexts she was represented in ways that bolstered imperial power and respectability politics; in others, she was a symbol of aspiration and new possibilities for black Britons” (Alexandra Apolloni, Journal of Popular Music Studies, Dec. 2016).
Little Millie Small “My Boy Lollipop”
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