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Lawrence t disco and the queering of the dance floor.

Earlier djs saw themselves as subservient waiters who served up mu si c pr ep ar ed el se wh er e or as pu pp et ee rs wh o co ul d ma ni pu la te th e dancers. Cultural studies 25 2. Disco and the queering of the dance floor. Disco and the queering of the dance floor.

Cultural studies 25 230 243. Retrieved from journal entry of tim lawrence analyses the social aspects of the disco genre during the. Disco is associated commonly with the highly commercial and socially regressive studio 54 and saturday night fever. Disco and the queering of the dance floor.

Google scholar initiated the gay straight binary of disco in his book disco which was published in 1978 in the midst of disco s most commercially successful year goldman s basic premise has been rearticulated in a number of accounts of contemporary dance culture by authors such as bill brewster and frank broughton. Albert goldman goldman a. The second factor to consider with regard to the queering of the dance floor is. Queering is the verb form of the word queer and comes from the shortened version of the phrase queer reading it is a technique that came out of queer theory in the late 1980s through the 1990s and is used as a way to challenge heteronormativity by analyzing places in a text that utilize heterosexuality or identity binaries.

However the movement that preceded ran parallel and ultimately outlasted these articulations of the culture was queer in terms of. Big business real estate determinism and dance culture in new york 1980 88. 25 queer adventures in cultural studies pp. Disco and the queering of the dance floor.

Cultural studies 2011 vol 25 no 2 pp 230 243 ref 15. Disco and the queering of the dance floor.