Being a DJ is My Form of Resistance

The Dance Floor As a Safer Space for Queer-Feminist Communities in Vienna

Bibliographic Data

ID3878945
AuthorsMagdalena Fuernkranz (0000-0002-3603-6318, University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna, corresponding author)
Year2024
Volume16
Issue1
Pages31-50
Publication date2024-11-15
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueDancecult (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1947-5403 • E-ISSN: 1947-5403
PublisherMaynooth University (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.12801/1947-5403.2024.16.01.03
OpenAlexW4406217340
LanguageEN
Citations received1

Vienna based queer-feminist networks, DJ collectives and event formats such as female:pressure, Dishes, Unsafe+Sounds and Hyperreality provide a platform for exploration of a radical, uncompromising queer-feminist approach in institutionalized spaces. The dance floor becomes a safer space for nonconformism, as well as a platform for time-limited utopias and subcultures in an institutional framework. As subcultural spaces, these collectives create events that form intensive, multi-layered and progressive line-ups and advocate for greater visibility and representation of marginalized groups on the dance floor. This paper explores the potentials and limitations of queer-feminist DJs and DJ-collectives, music producers and club organizers that make use of social spaces such as the dance floor to create safer spaces for queer dance music communities. I suggest that queer-feminist DJing and its contexts are shaped by ideas of fourth-wave feminism, queer-feminist networks as well as by the use of social media to provide spaces for cultural production and political activism

Aesthetics · Art · Club · Dance · Electronic dance music · Feminism · Political science · Politics · Queer · SAFER · Sociology · Visual arts · Asian Culture and Media Studies · Computer Science · Digital Games and Media · Gender Studies · Law · Music History and Culture

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