Impossible Dance: Club Culture and Queer World-Making
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| Rating | : | 4.45 (608 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0819564982 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 256 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-09-20 |
| Language | : | English |
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(Jan.) Forecast: Written in a dense postmodern jargon, Buckland's insightful book will appeal mostly to queer theorists and other academics, but not those looking for exuberant firsthand descriptions of club experience, though Buckland does present her experiences and those of her informants with energy. Counterpointing this material with critiques of gay demimonde nightlife (by Rudolph Giuliani and conservative homosexuals Andrew Sullivan and Bruce Bawer, among others), Buckland exposes the cultural tensions that both attack and reinforce the need for such gathering places. With Giuliani's term ended, a resurgence in New York underground nightlife is in the air, but this is one for the stacks rather than the club goer's knapsack.Copyright 200
Based on four years of field work, the book takes readers on a journey from the streets of New York City into the dance clubs and onto the dance floor. Fiona Buckland argues that such dancing embodies and rehearses a powerful political imagination, laying claim to the space and to one's body as queer."--Publishers Weekly. Focusing on gay, lesbian and queer club culture in the 1990s New York City, this is the first book to bring together vital issues such as dance culture, queer community, sex culture, HIV identity and politics. "Impossible Dance is a highly accessible, original and engaging account of the complex and often heavily theorized debates around the body, identity and community. Detailed interviews with club-goers capture their perspectives on how they stage their self-fashioning through dancing
A Customer said Bravo. As a gay man, I think that the way this is written is delightful. Reading it was like going back to the time in New York when these clubs existed. This book provides gay men with something we can hold on to and pass on to the next generation. Bravo!. Mary Ann Allison said Intelligent and moving study of a stylish, important subject. Interesting, rigorous, and well written. Academic reading that is fun.This books illuminates an important part of our history.I know Fiona but hadn't read her book before publication. What a delight to sit down with such a treasure.. "Five Stars" according to Amazon Customer. Great read!!