Club Cultures: Boundaries, Identities and Otherness

Club Cultures: Boundaries, Identities and Otherness
ISBN-10
113521414X
ISBN-13
9781135214142
Category
Performing Arts
Pages
250
Language
English
Published
2011-04-27
Publisher
Routledge
Author
Silvia Rief

Description

This book explores contemporary club and dance cultures as a manifestation of aesthetic and prosthetic forms of life. Rief addresses the questions of how practices of clubbing help cultivate particular forms of reflexivity and modes of experience, and how these shape new devices for reconfiguring the boundaries around youth cultural and other social identities. She contributes empirical analyses of how such forms of experience are mediated by the particular structures of night-clubbing economies, the organizational regulation and the local organization of experience in club spaces, the media discourses and imageries, the technologies intervening into the sense system of the body (e.g. music, visuals, drugs) and the academic discourses on dance culture. Although the book draws from local club scenes in London and elsewhere in the UK, it also reflects on similarities and differences between nightclubbing cultures across geographical contexts.

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