The Dance Floor

Nightlife, Civilizing Process, and Multiculturalism in Canada

Datos Bibliográficos

ID7103783
AutoresDavid M Matsinhe (0000-0002-5031-9111, University of Alberta, autor de correspondencia)
Año2008
Volumen12
Número1
Páginas116-135
Fecha de publicación2008-11-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaSpace and Culture (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1206-3312 • E-ISSN: 1552-8308
EditorialSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/1206331208325604
OpenAlexW2084355919
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas5
Referencias citadas31

This article is based on a study of dance floors of Whyte Avenue in the city of Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. As extended cases, the life processes on the floors are interpreted as manifestations of Canada's emotional history in the form of multiculturalism. Building on observations combined with informal and casual conversations, the study focuses on arousal and expression of emotions through bodily movements on the dance floors. The readings of these spaces along with their life processes are informed by the theoretical concepts of the “carnival” and the “grotesque” (Bakhtin), “liminality” (Turner), and the “civilizing process” and “informalization” (Elias and Wouters). In this theoretical framework, the particular emotional life processes that occur on the dance floors are rendered orderable as historically contingent phenomena that incarnate the wave of multiculturalization that shaped and has continued to shape the cultural, geographic, political, social, and psychological (emotional) landscapes of Canada since the 1960s

Aesthetics · Art · Casual · Dance · Liminality · Multiculturalism · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Visual arts · Fashion and Cultural Textiles · Gender Studies · Law · Psychology · Social and Cultural Dynamics · Social Psychology · Sociology and Norbert Elias