Fabulous

Author: Madison Moore
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300204701
Category : Design
Languages : en
Pages : 302

Book Description
An exploration of what it means to be fabulous--and why eccentric style, fashion, and creativity are more political than ever Prince once told us not to hate him 'cause he's fabulous. But what does it mean to be fabulous? Is fabulous style only about labels, narcissism, and selfies--looking good and feeling gorgeous? Or can acts of fabulousness be political gestures, too? What are the risks of fabulousness? And in what ways is fabulous style a defiant response to the struggles of living while marginalized? madison moore answers these questions in a timely and fascinating book that explores how queer, brown, and other marginalized outsiders use ideas, style, and creativity in everyday life. Moving from catwalks and nightclubs to the street, moore dialogues with a range of fabulous and creative powerhouses, including DJ Vjuan Allure, voguing superstar Lasseindra Ninja, fashion designer Patricia Field, performance artist Alok Vaid-Menon, and a wide range of other aesthetic rebels from the worlds of art, fashion, and nightlife. In a riveting synthesis of autobiography, cultural analysis, and ethnography, moore positions fabulousness as a form of cultural criticism that allows those who perform it to thrive in a world where they are not supposed to exist.

Lost and Sound

Author: Tobias Rapp
Publisher:
ISBN: 9783942188005
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 287

Book Description

Together, Somehow

Author: Luis Manuel Garcia-Mispireta
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 1478027053
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 180

Book Description
In Together, Somehow, Luis Manuel Garcia-Mispireta examines how people find ways to get along and share a dancefloor, a vibe, and a sound. Drawing on time spent in the minimal techno and house music subscenes in Chicago, Paris, and Berlin as the first decade of the new millennium came to a close, Garcia-Mispireta explains this bonding in terms of what he calls stranger-intimacy: the kind of warmth, sharing, and vulnerability between people that happens surprisingly often at popular electronic dance music parties. He shows how affect lubricates the connections between music and the dancers. Intense shared senses of sound and touch help support a feeling of belonging to a larger social world. However, as Garcia-Mispireta points out, this sense of belonging can be vague, fluid, and may hide exclusions and injustices. By showing how sharing a dancefloor involves feeling, touch, sound, sexuality, and subculture, Garcia-Mispireta rethinks intimacy and belonging through dancing crowds and the utopian vision of throbbing dancefloors.

City Living

Author: Quill R. Kukla
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190855363
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 345

Book Description
City Living is about urban spaces, urban dwellers, and how these spaces and people make, shape, and change one another. More people live in cities than ever before: more than 50% of the earth's people are urban dwellers. As downtown cores gentrify and globalize, they are becoming more diverse than ever, along lines of race, ethnicity, socioeconomic class, sexuality, and age. Meanwhile, we are in the early stages of what seems sure to be a period of intense civil unrest. During such periods, cities generally become the primary sites where tensions and resistance are concentrated, negotiated, and performed. For all of these reasons, understanding cities and contemporary city living is pressing and exciting from almost any disciplinary and political perspective. Quill R Kukla offers the first systematic philosophical investigation of the nature of city life and city dwellers. The book draws on empirical and ethnographic work in geography, anthropology, urban planning, and several other disciplines in order to explore the impact that cities have on their dwellers and that dwellers have on their cities. It begins with a philosophical exploration of spatially embodied agency and of the specific forms of agency and spatiality that are distinctive of urban life. It explores how gentrification is enacted and experienced at the level of embodied agency, arguing that gentrifying spaces are contested territories that shape and are shaped by their dwellers. The book then moves to an exploration of repurposed cities, which are cities materially designed to support one sociopolitical order, but in which that order collapsed, leaving new dwellers to use the space in new ways. Through detailed original ethnography of the repurposed cities of Berlin and Johannesburg, Kukla makes the case that in repurposed cities, we can see vividly how material spaces shape and constrain the agency and experience of dwellers, while dwellers creatively shape the spaces they inhabit in accordance with their needs. The book concludes with a reconsideration of the right to the city, asking what would be involved in creating a city that enabled the agency and flourishing of all its diverse inhabitants.

Musical Performance and the Changing City

Author: Fabian Holt
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136157824
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 294

Book Description
A contribution to the field of urban music studies, this book presents new interdisciplinary approaches to the study of music in urban social life. It takes musical performance as its key focus, exploring how and why different kinds of performance are evolving in contemporary cities in the interaction among social groups, commercial entrepreneurs, and institutions. From conventional concerts in rock clubs to new genres such as the flash mob, the forms and meanings of musical performance are deeply affected by urban social change and at the same time respond to the changing conditions. Music has taken on complex roles in the post-industrial city where culture and cultural consumption have an unprecedented power in defining publics, policies, and marketing strategies. Further, changes in real estate markets and the penetration of new media have challenged even fairly modern music cultures. At the same time, new music cultures have emerged, and music has become a driver for cultural events and festivals, channeling the dynamics of a society characterized by the social change, media intensity, and the neoliberal forces of post-industrial urban contexts. The volume brings together scholars from a broad range of disciplines to build a shared understanding of post-industrial contexts in Europe and the United States. Most directly grounded in contemporary developments in music studies and urban studies, its broad interdisciplinary range serves to strengthen the relevance of urban music studies to fields such as anthropology, sociology, urban geography, and beyond. Offering in-depth studies of changing music culture in concert venues, cultural events, and neighborhoods, contributors visit diverse locations such as Barcelona, Berlin, London, New York, and Austin.

Berlin Now

Author: Peter Schneider
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0374254842
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 337

Book Description
A "longtime Berliner's ... exploration of the heterogeneous allure of this vibrant city. Delving beneath the obvious answers--Berlin's club scene, bolstered by the lack of a mandatory closing time; the artistic communities that thrive due to the relatively low (for now) cost of living--Schneider takes us on an insider's tour of this rapidly metamorphosing metropolis, where high-class soirees are held at construction sites and enterprising individuals often accomplish more without public funding--assembling a makeshift club on the banks of the Spree River--than Berlin's officials do"--Provided by publisher.

Locating Publics

Author: Florian Grote
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 3658054077
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 261

Book Description
Florian Grote investigates how a local Berlin music scene integrates online media into its cultural practice and why located interaction in clubs and at concert events remains one of the most important forms of communication. Based on detailed empirical data and innovative analytical methods, social situations are described that can only happen as communication in the field deals with the potentials and challenges of online media. The interwoven forms of online and offline activity are presented in a coherent model of public communication within contemporary cultural practice. With its current topic and an innovative set of methods, this study covers new ground for research in the cultural sciences of the digital age.

Berlin

Author: Paul Sullivan
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 0857728644
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 216

Book Description
"Berlin is a city forever in the process of becoming, never being, and so it lives more powerfully in the imagination." Rory Maclean, 'Berlin - Imagine a City'.Located at the epicentre of some of modern Europe's most significant and turbulent events, Berlin has long held a magnetic attraction for writers.From 19th century authors recording the city's dramatic transition from Prussian Hauptstadt to German capital after 1871 and the modernist intellectuals of the Weimar period, to the resistance writers brave enough to write during the dark years of the Nazi era and those who captured life on both sides of the divided city, a body of literature has emerged that reveals Berlin's ever-shifting identity. Since 1989, Berlin has yet again become a crucible of creativity, serving as both muse and sanctuary for a new generation of writers who regularly claim it as one of the most exciting cities in the world.This unique and engaging book functions as an introduction to some of the finest writing in and about the city, as well as a guide to some of its best sights and vibrant neighbourhoods.Spanning more than 200 years of local life and literature, it features German authors as diverse as E.T. A. Hoffmann, Joseph Roth, Jorg Fauser, and Christa Wolf, as well as a slew of famous international names such as Mark Twain, Philip Hensher and Chloe Aridjis.

Quaderni di Sociologia 92-93

Author: AA.VV.,
Publisher: Rosenberg & Sellier
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 206

Book Description
Alain Touraine: l'immaginazione sociologica in memoriam la società contemporanea / Re-thinking the quality of public space (II) Letteria G. Fassari, Martina Löw, Gioia Pompili, Emanuela Spanò, Preface Dominik Bartmanski, Gunter Weidenhaus, Emplaced Qualities. A Phenomenological Theory of Space and Experience in the Club Culture Context Nina Meier, The Value of Quality: Conflicting Orders of Worth Assigning the Quality of Space Valentina Cuzzocrea, Fabio Bertoni, Giuliana Mandich, 'It was like walking inside myself': Youngwomen's Practices of Domestication in the Gendered City Gioia Pompili, Emanuela Spanò, Ambivalent Quality: the Neighbourhood as a Space of Intensities Antonio Famiglietti, What Is Quality Public Space? The Debate in a Metropolitan Neighbourhood teoria e ricerca/ Pietro Rossi e la sociologia: classici e istituzionalizzazione Sergio Scamuzzi, Presentazione Scritti weberiani Pietro Rossi, La sociologia di Max Weber [parte I - primavera 1954] Pietro Rossi, La sociologia di Max Weber [parte II - estate 1954] Pietro Rossi, Oggettività scientifica e premesse di valore [1964] Istituzionalizzazione della sociologia in Italia Pietro Rossi, Una collana di classici della sociologia [1962] Pietro Rossi, La sociologia in Italia. Strutture universitarie e organizzazione della ricerca [1973] Pietro Rossi, Manichini alla riscossa [2021] note critiche Giovanni Mari, La nuova socialità dell'impresa secondo Federico Butera recensioni Michael Gibson-Light, Orange-Collar Labor. Work and Inequality in Prison, 2022 (Giovanni Torrente)

First Floor Volume 1

Author: Shawn Reynaldo
Publisher: Velocity Press
ISBN: 1913231399
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 234

Book Description
First Floor started small. At first it was just a newsletter, an outlet where veteran electronic music journalist Shawn Reynaldo could write and share his ideas without having to contend with outside editors or cater to social media algorithms. It was a blank canvas, and Reynaldo began to fill it with his extended thoughts on not just electronic music, but the culture and industry that surrounded it. Just a few years later, First Floor now stands as one of electronic music’s most influential platforms, particularly as Reynaldo continues to put many of the genre’s thorniest issues under the microscope. First Floor Volume 1 collects his most thought-provoking pieces and provides a nuanced, wide-ranging look at contemporary electronic music culture as it comes to grips with systemic challenges during a time of profound transformation. Whether he’s taking a hard look at the genre’s futurist ethos, questioning the practices of the modern music press or mapping out what motivates dance music’s newest generation, Reynaldo applies an undeniably critical lens, but his words are informed by decades of experience, a genuine passion for the subject matter and an open-minded outlook toward whatever changes lie ahead.