1st Edition

Club Cultures Boundaries, Identities and Otherness

By Silvia Rief Copyright 2009
250 Pages 7 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

266 Pages 7 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

250 Pages 7 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

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... Read more

1. Introduction  2. Urban Renewal and Night Life Governance: London and Istanbul  3. Club Cultural Production and the Night-time Economy Market in the UK  4. Sensing and Meaning the Body: The Local Organization of Clubbing Practices  5. Thresholds of Reality: Clubbing, Drugs and Agency  6. Identity Projects and Spectacular Selves  7. Between Style and Desire: Sexual Scenarios in Clubbing Magazines  8. Allegorical Anarchy, Symbolic Hierarchy: Sexual Boundaries in Two London Dance Clubs  9. Conclusion.  Appendix.

Biography

Silvia Rief is a Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Innsbruck.