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Author Colosi, Rachela

Title Dirty Dancing : an Ethnography of Lap Dancing
Published Cullompton : Taylor and Francis, 2010

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Description 1 online resource (207 pages)
Series Routledge Advances in Ethnography
Routledge advances in ethnography.
Contents Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgements; 1 Introducing the ethnography: working and researching in a 'deviant' occupation; My story; Research motivation, significance and approach; The dancing-ethnographer; Conceptualizing lap-dancing; Chapter outline; Notes; 2 Lap-dancing and the night-time economy; Commercializing lap-dancing; Legislating on and regulating lap-dancing; Notes; 3 Rules, contracts and players; Rules, rotas and contracts; Dancers' earnings; The lap-dance; The sit-down; The stage show; Starlets' main players; Notes
4 Introducing Starlets -- a lap-dancing club settingThe heart of the action: Starlets; The changing room; The managers' office; The main floor; The main stage; Dance reception; Conclusion; Notes; Karen's story -- Part 1: starting out ... ; 5 Becoming a dancer; Entry routes; The complexity of dancer motivation; Getting in: the audition; Notes; Karen's story -- Part 2: working at Starlets; 6 Learning to lap-dance: an apprenticeship; The apprenticeship; New and under scrutiny; Forming relationships with other dancers; Making adjustments; The tacit rules; Developing dancing skills; Notes
7 Experiencing lap-dancingThe cynical performance; Social and emotional rituals; The experience of stigma; Feeling the strain of lap-dancing; Notes; 8 Being established; Old-school privileges; Maintenance of the tacit rules; Re-establishing status; The meaning of status; Notes; Karen's story -- Part 3: leaving Starlets; 9 Leaving Starlets; Saying goodbye; Exit routes; Dismissal; Returning to Starlets; Notes; 10 Lap-dancing: complex and contradictory; Power and resistance; Worker exploitation; Dancer morality; The future? What future?; Epilogue: the last dance ... ; Bibliography; Index
Notes Print version record
Form Electronic book
Author Hobbs, Dick
Pearson, Geoffrey
ISBN 9781351569408
1351569406