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Liberation on the dance floor : popular music and the promise of plurality / Craig Jennex.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Jennex, Craig, author.
- Series:
- Cambridge elements. Elements in music and the city
- Cambridge elements. Elements in music and the city, 2633-3880
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Homosexuality and popular music.
- Popular music--Social aspects.
- Popular music.
- Popular music--Political aspects.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (71 pages) : illustrations (some color).
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2025.
- Summary:
- "Lesbian and gay liberation movements of the twentieth century were made possible through heterogeneous dance music cultures that flourished in urban spaces. In an era of profound political challenges, collective dance enabled lesbian and gay individuals to connect with their bodies and the bodies of others, experience a sense of communal belonging, explore non-normative gender and sexual desires, and perceive individual and collective power in a heteronormative reality that regularly suppressed both. For lesbians and gays, collective dance introduced them to difference as a dynamic catalyst of political change, allowing them to experience the promise of liberation. This Element combines ethnographic research, archival materials, and popular music histories to analyze the role of popular music participation in lesbian and gay liberation in US cities and demonstrate how collective dance served as a transformative site of political contestation and imagination"-- Cambridge University Press.
- Contents:
- Introduction: The political force of collective dance
- Dance and resistance
- Dancing to liberation
- Collective heat
- Disease on the dance floor
- Conclusion: We should be dancing.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Online resource; title from PDF title page (Cambridge University Press, viewed November 6, 2025).
- Other Format:
- Print version: Jennex, Craig. Liberation on the dance floor
- ISBN:
- 9781009351812
- 1009351818
- 9781009351799
- 1009351796
- OCLC:
- 1533768119
- Publisher Number:
- CIPO000264336
- CIPO000285809
- Access Restriction:
- Some versions: Open access versions available from some providers open access
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