Impossible Dance

Club Culture and Queer World-Making

By: Fiona Buckland

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Paperback | 1 February 2002

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An ethnographic account of gay, lesbian and queer club culture in the 1990s New York City.

"Impossible Dance is a highly accessible, original and engaging account of the complex and often heavily theorized debates around the body, identity and community. 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. 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. Detailed interviews with club-goers capture their perspectives on how they stage their self-fashioning through dancing. 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

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"Impossible Dance provides a rich, detailed and very nuanced argument about social dance and the production of embodied queer identities and space, an original and important contribution."--Gill Valentine, Professor of Geography, University of Sheffield

""Impossible Dance provides a rich, detailed and very nuanced argument about social dance and the production of embodied queer identities and space, an original and important contribution.""--Gill Valentine, Professor of Geography, University of Sheffield

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Acknowledgments	p. ix
Timeline	p. xi
Introduction: Impossible Dance	p. 1
The Theater of Queer World-Making	p. 16
The Currency of Fabulousness: Fashioning the Self, Fashioning the Lifeworld	p. 36
Slaves to the Rhythm? Using Music, Space, Dance, and the Ideas of the Body	p. 65
The Order of Play: Choreographing Queer Politics	p. 86
Only When I Lose Myself in Someone Else: Desire, Mimesis, and Transcendence	p. 111
Closer: Crackdown, Community, and the Physicality of Queerness	p. 128
Mr. Mesa's Ticket: Memory and Dance at the Body Positive T-Dance	p. 159
Appendixes	p. 185
Method
Informants
Locations of Clubs Mentioned
How the City Planning Commission of the City of New York Defines "Adult Establishment"
Regulations and Licenses
Notes	p. 201
Bibliography	p. 207
Index	p. 215
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