CULS20015 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Umbrella Term, Heteronormativity
15 Jun 2018
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Lecture 10: discos, clubs, raves and queering of the dancefloor
What is the significance of the dancefloor, and in particular, what is
the rs betw dancefloor cultures and queer community?
queerness
• Umbrella term to celebrate rather than denigrate difference that rejects the rigidity of identity
categories
• Identity that rejects the categorisation of subject positions
• Ontological challenge too dominant discourses and subject positions regarding sexuality
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• Music as alternative space for queer people to assert agency
• Music linked w spectacle, fantasy, and fluidity
• How to queer popular music
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Dance music
• Repetition through loops
• Lots of sampling, layering,
• Electronic, mechanistic
• Focused on sensorial and corporeal that's facilitated through the denaturalized, mechanistic
technology of dance music production
• Loss of the individual self to a wider interconnected 'body' consisting between other dancers and
the music
• Dispersed and fragmented set of erotic energies
• blurring of human and technologies
• Liminal space of melting boundaries
Queerness of edm
• Queer in the sense that it destabalizes normative ideas
• Cyborg diva melts into binaries, crosses genres and species etc
• Questions ontological nature of music
• Producer over the artist
• The 'mix' over the song and the performance
• Computers and machines over instruments
Disco
• Celebration of freedom for gay men
• Disco made acceptable through heteronormalisation ? Made less queer -> more popular
The dancefloor
• Tradition notions of performer and audience redefined
• Image of performer < audience's response through dance
• How DJ work in sync w the dancefloor and its energy
• Need DJ music and crowd for dancefloor to happen
• Mediators betw machine sound and human movement -> bring into existence the dance floor
• Clubs structured around sensory overload, work on env focused heavily on losing oneself to the
music, potentially existing outside everyday capitalism (arguable)
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