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

Author/creator Buckland, Fiona
Format Book
Publication InfoMiddletown, Conn. : Wesleyan University Press, ©2002.
Descriptionxxiv, 224 pages ; 24 cm
Subjects
Gay clubs--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.

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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 207-213) and index.
LCCN 2001004768
ISBN0819564974 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN0819564982 (pbk. : alk. paper)

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Joyner General Stacks HQ76.3.U5 B83 2002 ✔ Available Place Hold