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Impossible dance : club culture and queer world-making / Fiona Buckland.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Buckland, Fiona.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Gay discotheques--New York (State)--New York.
- Gay discotheques.
- Gay community--New York (State)--New York.
- Gay community.
- Lesbian community--New York (State)--New York.
- Lesbian community.
- Gay men--New York (State)--New York--Identity.
- Gay men.
- Lesbians--New York (State)--New York--Identity.
- Lesbians.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (252 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Middletown, Conn. : Wesleyan University Press, c2002.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- An ethnographic account of gay, lesbian and queer club culture in the 1990's New York City.
- Contents:
- CONTENTS; Acknowledgments; Timeline; Introduction: Impossible Dance; 1. The Theater of Queer World-Making; 2. The Currency of Fabulousness: Fashioning the Self, Fashioning the Lifeworld; 3. Slaves to the Rhythm? Using Music, Space, Composition, and the Ideas of the Body; 4. The Order of Play: Choreographing Queer Politics; 5. Only When I Lose Myself in Someone Else: Desire, Mimesis, and Transcendence; 6. Closer: Crackdown, Community, and the Physicality of Queerness; 7. Mr. Mesa's Ticket: Memory and Dance at the Body Positive T-Dance; Appendixes; A. Method; B. Informants; C. Location of Clubs
- D. How the City Planning Commission of the City of New York Defines ""Adult Establishment""E. Regulations and Licenses; Notes; Bibliography; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 207-213) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-283-10958-1
- 9786613109583
- 0-8195-7054-0
- OCLC:
- 728227819
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