Article Title：Resistance under the black light - Exploring the use of music in two exotic dance clubs
Abstract：
This article examines how exotic dancers strategically use music in two exotic dance clubs in the New England area. Music functioned as a form of resistance for dancers in three ways: as a direct form of protest against owners, as a covert strategy of reappropriation, and as an overt expression of discontent in their interactions with regular customers. I also analyze the ways in which buying against gender inequality, through the use of music, falls short as a form of protest. For example, dancers often unwittingly fetishized the racial politics undergirding the genre of music. This research is informed by four years of ethnographic research in the New England area.
Keywords: exotic dance; music; resistance; gender relations
DOI: 10.1177/0891241605283570
Source：JOURNAL OF CONTEMPORARY ETHNOGRAPHY
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