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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: fierce tribe
    sub title: masculine identity and performance in the Circuit
  name:
    name part: Weems, Mickey.
    role:
      role term: creator
  name:
    name part: JSTOR (Organization)
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: utu
    date issued: 2008
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (xxiii, 272 pages) : illustrations
  abstract: "In this ethnography that documents the folk nature of popular culture, Mickey Weems applies interdisciplinary interpretation to a subject that demands such a breakdown of intellectual boundaries. The Circuit, an expression of gay culture, comprises large dance events--gatherings, celebrations, communions, festivals. Music and dance drive complex, shared performances--electronic house music played by professional DJs and mass ecstatic dancing that engenders communitas. Other performances, from drag queens and concerts to contests, theatrics, and the individual display of muscular bodies are part of the festivities. Body sculpting through muscle building is strongly associated with the Circuit, and masculine aggression is both displayed and parodied. Weems, a participant-observer with a multidisciplinary background in anthropology, folklore, religious studies, cultural studies, and somatic studies, considers the cultural and ethical dimensions of what to outsiders might seem to be just wild, flamboyant parties. He compares the Circuit to other traditions of ecstatic and communal dance, and uses his grounding in African-Brazilian Candomblé and in religious studies to illuminate spiritual experiences reported by Circuit participants. And, as a U.S. Marine, he offers the nonviolent masculine arrogance of Circuiteers as an alternative to the violent forms of masculine aggression embedded in the military and much of western culture."--Publisher's description.
  table of contents: Introduction: fascists and whores -- Part I: Fierce. Banishing the God of mediocrity -- The few, the proud, the cracked -- Thousands of dancing gay men -- Fierceness -- The girlfriends -- Harm reduction -- Part II: Tribe. A history of festive homosexuality: 1700-1969 CE -- A history of the circuit(s): 1969 CE-present -- A tale of two cities: NOLA and MIA -- Part III: Pulse. Popular dance -- Axé -- From marching soldier to dancing Queen -- Part IV: Ecstasy. The DJ -- Stepping Out -- Bibliography -- Discography -- Index.
  note: Mickey Weems.
  note: Electronic resource.
  note: Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL
  note: digitized 2011 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-263) and index.
  note: Includes discography: pages 264-265.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-us---
  subject:
    topic: Gay and lesbian dance parties
    topic: Social aspects
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    topic: Gay culture
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    topic: Gay men
    geographic: United States
    topic: Identity
  subject:
    topic: SOCIAL SCIENCE
    topic: Gay Studies
  classification: GV1749.5 .W44 2008eb
  classification: 306.76/60973
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Fierce tribe
    name:
      name part: Weems, Mickey.
    origin info:
      publisher: Logan, Utah : Utah State University Press, ©2008
    identifier: (DLC) 2008034568
    identifier: (OCoLC)244065181
  identifier: 9780874216929
  identifier: 0874216923
  identifier: 9780874216912
  identifier: 0874216915
  identifier: 22573/ctt47mv2k JSTOR
  identifier: http://proxy.library.tamu.edu/login
  record info:
    record content source: N$T
    record creation date: 100402
    record change date: 20260728172613.6
    record identifier: in00003857011
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng