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

Published Middletown, Conn. : Wesleyan University Press, [2001] ©2001

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Description xxiv, 224 pages ; 23 cm Contents Introduction: Impossible Dance -- 1. The Theater of Queer World-Making -- 2. The Currency of Fabulousness: Fashioning the Self, Fashioning the Lifeworld -- 3. Slaves to the Rhythm? Using Music, Space, Dance, and the Ideas of the Body -- 4. The Order of Play: Choreographing Queer Politics -- 5. Only When I Lose Myself in Someone Else: Desire, Mimesis, and Transcendence -- 6. Closer: Crackdown, Community, and the Physicality of Queerness -- 7. Mr. Mesa's Ticket: Memory and Dance at the Body Positive T-Dance Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (page 207)-213) and index Subject Gay clubs -- New York (State) -- New York. Gay community -- New York (State) Lesbian community -- New York (State) Gays -- New York (State) -- New York -- Identity Lesbians -- New York (State) -- New York -- Identity LC no. 2001004768 ISBN 0819564974 cloth alkaline paper 0819564982 paperback alkaline paper

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