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