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8 of the Best Books and Articles on: Clubs and Clubbing

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Inside Clubbing: Sensual Experiments in the Art of Being Human » Read Now
by Phil Jackson. 189 pgs.

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Inside Clubbing puts the spotlight on club culture - in all its sweaty, visceral and seductive glory. Moving from hip-hop clubs to fetish events and beyond, the author guides us through the huge spectrum of the contemporary club experience.Drawing on interviews with clubbers from a variety of...
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Inside Clubbing puts the spotlight on club culture - in all its sweaty, visceral and seductive glory. Moving from hip-hop clubs to fetish events and beyond, the author guides us through the huge spectrum of the contemporary club experience.Drawing on interviews with clubbers from a variety of backgrounds, the author dispels myths and offers new insight into the clubbing scene. Contrary to popular perception, for example, clubbing is not just for youths. The clubbers in Inside Clubbing range from mid-twenties to mid-fifties. Many have been on the scene for years and offer a historical perspective on changes over the last decade. The range of clubs and clubbers discussed also demonstrates the diversity of club culture its more than just an ecstasy-fuelled dance scene. Taking us into queer, trance, Asian, techno, drum n bass, and sex clubs - among others - Inside Clubbing explores the real practice of clubbing. It looks at what people experience and how it affects them, as well as their values and concerns - from friendship and community to drugs, the body, and life outside the clubbing space.This book breaks new ground in offering us the most balanced and sophisticated understanding of the club scene to date.
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Clubbing: Dancing, Ecstasy and Vitality » Read Now
by Ben Malbon. 236 pgs.

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Offering an informative and intimate insight into the world of clubbing and the experiences of clubbers, this book presents a clear academic framework for study in this field. Issues discussed include social interaction among dubbers; gender and sexuality; the effects of music; the effects of...
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Offering an informative and intimate insight into the world of clubbing and the experiences of clubbers, this book presents a clear academic framework for study in this field. Issues discussed include social interaction among dubbers; gender and sexuality; the effects of music; the effects of ecstacy and it's place within a "night out"; UK clubbing as a playful act; dancing; and personal interpretations of clubbing experiences.
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Club Cultures and Female Subjectivity: The Move from Home to House » Read Now
by Maria Pini. 204 pgs.

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This book explores the significance which contemporary club cultures can come to have for women living through a time of radical sexual-political change. The book focuses upon the experiential accounts of different "raving" and clubbing women by illustrating how new, and more appropriate, fictions...
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This book explores the significance which contemporary club cultures can come to have for women living through a time of radical sexual-political change. The book focuses upon the experiential accounts of different "raving" and clubbing women by illustrating how new, and more appropriate, fictions of femininity are generated within these accounts. Focus upon these aspects reveals the limitations of reading today's club cultures as indicators of a sexual-political regression.
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Cool Places: Geographies of Youth Cultures (Chap. 16 "The Club") » Read Now
by Tracey Skelton, Gill Valentine. 383 pgs.

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Cool Places explores the contrasting experiences of contemporary youth, exploring such topics as representation and resistance in young people's lives by drawing on techno music and ecstasy, clubbing, global backpacking and employment seeking.
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Discographies: Dance Music, Culture, and the Politics of Sound » Read Now
by Jeremy Gilbert, Ewan Pearson. 196 pgs.

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Experiencing disco, hip hop, house, techno, drum 'n' bass and garage, Discographies plots a course through the transatlantic dance scene of the last last twenty-five years. It discusses the problems posed by contemporary dance culture of both academic and cultural study and finds these origins in...
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Experiencing disco, hip hop, house, techno, drum 'n' bass and garage, Discographies plots a course through the transatlantic dance scene of the last last twenty-five years. It discusses the problems posed by contemporary dance culture of both academic and cultural study and finds these origins in the history of opposition to music as a source of sensory pleasure.Discussing such issues as technology, club space. drugs, the musical body, gender, sexuality and pleasure, Discographies explores the ecstatic experiences at the heart of contemporary dance culture. It suggests why politicians and agencies as diverse as the independent music press and public broadcasting should be so hostile to this cultural phenomenon.
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Urban Nightscapes: Youth Cultures, Pleasure Spaces and Corporate Power (Includes discussion of clubs and clubbing in multiple chapters) » Read Now
by Paul Chatterton, Robert Hollands. 290 pgs.

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This book takes a new look at the rapidly changing aspects of urban life, examining the relationships between young adults, nightlife and city spaces. It focuses on what the authors call "urban nightscapes"--youthful and playful cultural activities in bars, pubs, night-clubs and music venues, which...
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This book takes a new look at the rapidly changing aspects of urban life, examining the relationships between young adults, nightlife and city spaces. It focuses on what the authors call "urban nightscapes"--youthful and playful cultural activities in bars, pubs, night-clubs and music venues, which occur against a backdrop of increasing corporate influence in the night-time economy.
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UK Drugs Unlimited: New Research and Policy Lessons on Illicit Drug Use (Chap. 5 "Unstoppable? Dance Drug Use in the UK Club Scene") » Read Now
by Judith Aldridge, Roy Egginton, Howard Parker. 182 pgs.

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This book describes the diverse nature of contemporary drug use in Britain, from club kids to addicts. It investigates why current drug policy is floundering.
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Digital Diversions: Youth Culture in the Age of Multimedia (Chap. 7 "Digital Culture - The View from the Dance Floor") » Read Now
by Julian Sefton-Green. 182 pgs.

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