TDHT 122Performance and Nightlife: Performing Race, Gender, and Sexuality after Dark
This course examines how nightlife cultures have made lasting cultural and aesthetic interventions in today’s performance landscape. Students learn about distinct nightlife cultures across global contexts by studying a range of topics (drag performance, cabaret, burlesque, strip clubs, house dancing, raves, reggae clubs, DJing, club pedagogies). Readings examine nightlife as a space of pleasure and possibility while also critically engaging with the hierarchies that exist in these spaces.
Prerequisites
From the catalog: “upper-division standing or consent of instructor.”