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... Jewish liturgy Pulse nightclub social movement wins antisemitism ...

... Thinking about belonging also means thinking about exclusion, and so we should consider how such exclusions are institutionalized. This chapter profiles the practices of the door staff at Berliner nightclubs, examining how these local leisure institutions may be informed by their broader...

... The tragic 2016 mass shooting at Pulse nightclub in Orlando made it the most publicized gay bar in the world. The massacre there inspired an outpouring of reflections on why gay bars matter and celebrations of Latin nights specifically. These commentaries often negotiated between local...

... The book closes with a final ethnographic scene in the form of an epilogue—a brief encounter in the toilets of a Berliner nightclub—that condenses and illustrates the insights of the previous chapters. This is followed by a more explicit synthesis of the primary arguments of the book, paying...

... of possibility: a detailed imagining that helps build the world readers want. Imagining what winning could be like is one of the most important tasks of prophecy. Jewish liturgy Pulse nightclub social movement wins antisemitism ...

... The introduction presents the book’s main topic by way of some storytelling from an encounter in a Berliner nightclub. From there, it departs on a very condensed historical sketch of utopianism on queer dancefloors, starting with disco in the 1970s. This pivots to a review of utopianism...

... listenership. This chapter outlines how Adderley’s LP was part of a much wider trend by independent jazz labels to record Black hard-bop musicians on location at jazz nightclubs in the mid 1950s. Quintet in San Francisco thus sits at the intersection of the record industry’s experiments with live recording...

... by less-studied Black Broadway divas of the time, Juanita Hall and Pearl Bailey. Hall negotiated a path from the concert stage to the nightclub and, via vocal acts in “high yellowface,” convinced listeners to hear her voice as representative of Vietnam or Chinatown. Bailey also leveraged character roles...

... multiple black identities, responding creatively to his audiences’ varied racial expectations. In the Parisian nightclubs of the 1930s, being black gave him a certain cachet. Similarly, once he returned to Buenos Aires in 1940, his racial identity strengthened his claim to being Argentina’s most authentic...