Title Impossible dance : club culture and queer world-making / Fiona Buckland

Published Middletown, Conn. : Wesleyan University Press, 2002

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Description 1 online resource (xxiv, 224 pages) Contents The theater of queer world-making -- The currency of fabulousness : fashioning the self, fashioning the lifeworld -- Slaves to the rhythm? Using music, space, dance, and the ideas of the body -- The order of play : choreographing queer politics -- Only when I lose myself in someone else : desire, mimesis, and transcendence -- Closer : crackdown, community, and the physicality of queerness -- Mr. Mesa's ticket : memory and dance at the body positive T-dance Summary An ethnographic account of gay, lesbian and queer club culture in the 1990s New York City Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-213) and index Notes Print version record Subject Gay discotheques -- New York (State) -- New York Gay community -- New York (State) -- New York Lesbian community -- New York (State) -- New York Gay people -- New York (State) -- New York -- Identity Lesbians -- New York (State) -- New York -- Identity SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies. Gay community Gay discotheques Gays -- Identity Lesbian community Lesbians -- Identity Homosexuellenbewegung Soziale Situation Kulturleben New York (State) -- New York New York (N.Y.) Form Electronic book ISBN 0819564974 9780819564979 0819564982 9780819564986 9780819570543 0819570540

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