Club Culture Research Articles

The Colony of Aden in Post-Colonial Yemeni Novel

In many Arab countries, where colonial rule was replaced by local authoritarian, often corrupt, regimes, popular discontent with the living conditions under the new government has produced a kind of nostalgia for the colonial past. This nostalgia is well observed in today’s Aden (Republic of Yemen), which was a British colony from 1839 until 1967. In the middle of the 20th century, Aden was the most prosperous city on the Arabian Peninsula and one of the busiest seaports in the world. This article examines how this nostalgia is manifested in modern Yemeni literature, namely in three novels: Three Midnighters (1993) by Sa‘id Awlaqi, Adeni Incense (2014) by Ali al-Muqri, and Steamer Point (2015) by Ahmad Zayn (Zein). In the novel Three Midnighters, which takes place in the late 1980s, the allegory of Aden Colony is a cultural club, whose activities are remembered by the characters. The main characteristics of that club were its openness to all people, its atmosphere of freedom of thought, freedom of expression, mutual respect of its members, prosperity, love, and fun. In Adeni Incense, Aden Colony also resembles a wonderful club. The members of this club, that is, the characters of the novel, live in harmony, love, and prosperity — until evil external forces begin to destroy this club. The lack of realistic details in the depiction of the city and its inhabitants allows the reader to perceive the novel as allegorical rather than realistic. In Steamer Point, Aden Colony does not appear as a wonderful club, since the novel is written in a completely realistic manner. Nevertheless, Aden in the novel has two important features: the economic prosperity and peaceful coexistence of representatives of different cultures and different identities. It is these features of the city that one of the main characters, a sincere admirer of the British, is afraid to lose as a result of the British withdrawal.

Bosna i Hercegovina u koncepcijama Srpskog kulturnog kluba

This paper covers the period from 1937 to 1945, the period of the establishment and works of the Serbian Cultural Club. The paper will discuss the political circumstances in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia in wich Serbian Cultural Club was founded, as well as the program goals and its activities in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Special emphasis will be put on the period of the Second World War in the Bosnia and Herzegovina and the former common state and the activities of the Serbian Cultural Club in the Second World War. The work and achievement of the program goals of the Serbian Cultural Club in the Second World War will be presented through the work of the Exile Government in London and the activities of the Chetniks Movement in the Bosnia and Herzegovina and the former common state. The Serbian Cultural Club was formed as a form of political association and activity, which included politicians, public workers, scientists, members of various political organizations, representatives of state and parastate bodies and organizations, under the slogan "Serbs for Reunion". The club acted as a unique and homogeneous organization, regardless of the composition of the membership, with the goal of saving Serbia and Serbs. This most clearly expressed his overall activity, composition and degree of influence on state policy. The most important issues of state or Serbian nationalist policy for the interest of the Government were discussed in the Club, so the club had an extensive network of boards and several media. Professor and Rector of the University of Belgrade, Dr. Slobodan Jovanović, was elected the first president of the Serbian Cultural Club. He was the ideological creator of this organization (and he set out the basic tasks and goals of the Club). The vice presidents were Dr. Nikola Stojanović and Dr. Dragiša Vasić, and Dr. Vasa Čubrilović the secretary. Dr. Stevan Moljevic was the president of the board of the Serbian Cultural Club for the Bosnian Krajina, based in Banja Luka. According to Dinić, the initiative for the formation of the Serbian Cultural Club was given by Bosnian-Herzegovinian Serbs Dr. Nikola Stojanović, Dr. Vladimir Čorović, Dr. Vladimir Grčić and Dr. Slobodan Jovanović. The activities of the Serbian Cultural Club can be divided into two stages. The first from its founding in 1936 until the signing of the Cvetković-Maček agreement, and the second from 1939 to 1941. The program of the Serbian Cultural Club was a sum of Greater Serbia programs of all major political parties that operated in Serbia with the help of state institutions. The goals of the Serbian Cultural Club were mainly: expansionist policy of expanding Serbian rule to neighboring areas, denying the national identity of all other Yugoslav nations and exercising the right to self-determination. The program goals of the Serbian Cultural Club were to propagate Greater Serbian ideology. With its program about Greater Serbia and its activities, the Serbian Cultural Club has become the bearer of the most extreme Serbian nationalist aspirations. After the Cvetković-Maček agreement of August 1939, the Serbian Cultural Club demanded a revision of the agreement, calling for a Serbo-Croatian agreement based on ethnic, historical or economic-geographical principles. The adoption of one of these principles was to apply to the entire area inhabited by Serbs. The subcommittees of the Serbian Cultural Club in Bosnia and Herzegovina had the primary task of working to emphasize its Serbian character, and after the Cvetkovic-Macek agreement to form awareness that the whole of Bosnia and Herzegovina should enter the Serbian territorial unit. With the prominent slogan "Wherever there are Serbs - there is Serbia", the Serbs in Bosnia and Herzegovina were marked as the "vigilant guardian of the Serbian national consciousness". The leadership and most of the members of the Serbian Cultural Club joined the Chetnik movement as Draža Mihailović's national ideologues. The policy of the militant Greater Serbia program and Serbian nationalism of the Serbian Cultural Club was accepted as the program of Draža Mihailović's Chetnik movement. Some of Draža Mihailović's most important associates belonged to the Serbian Cultural Club. The main political goals of the Chetnik movement are formulated in several program documents. The starting point in them was the idea of a "Greater and Homogeneous Serbia", which was based on the idea that Serbs should be the leading nation in the Balkans.

Culture Club: Experiences of running a journal club for continuing professional development in higher education

This article discusses the experiences of a journal club established to enable staff from different higher education (HE) institutions and roles to develop their knowledge and understanding around a shared interest in the areas of internationalisation and educational technology. Journal clubs have been used, mainly within the field of medicine and healthcare, to facilitate group learning. The club enabled the group to navigate a complex terrain of literature, develop a focus for reading and identifying a potential area for research and collaboration. Members of the journal club experienced several benefits from participation which are discussed together with the challenges of sustaining engagement over time. The article concludes with highlighting ways in which journal clubs can provide a fruitful form of continuing professional development in higher education, particularly in complex subject areas that traverse numerous roles and domains and makes recommendations for those considering establishing a journal club for similar purposes.

Political Clubs and Press in Russia and England in the 20—30s of XIX Century: Russian Public Opinion about the Tory Party

The author examines the processes of institutionalization of such forms of public representation in Great Britain and Russia in the first third of the 19th century as the press and political clubs. The formation of criteria for a new type of communication characteristic of club culture is investigated: equality of participants, the quality of argumentation and problematization of public policy in relation to both countries. The relevance of the study is seen in conducting a comparative analysis and determining the features of the formation of public political discourse in Russia and Great Britain during the period under study. The novelty of the research lies in the placement of the problems considered in the article in a broader research context, as well as in the use of the methodology of critical conventionalism in the analysis of the role of the press and political clubs. Particular attention is paid to the presentation in the Russian press of the political situation in Great Britain in the first half of the 30s of the XIX century. The author’s vision of the role and place of the press in shaping public opinion in Russia in relation to the policy of the Tory party in 1831—1834 is presented. It is shown that the ideas of the Russian educated class about Tory politics during this period were fragmentary and poorly understood from the point of view of understanding British political realities. It is emphasized that the correctness of the assessment of the political situation in Great Britain in the first half of the 30s of the 19th century raises reasonable doubts in the Russian press.

Cultivating Identities in a Place Called Home: Intersectional, Ever Changing Identities of Vietnamese American Youth in Culturally Sustaining Spaces

Educators and scholars have been advocating for culturally sustaining pedagogies in the classroom that extends, honors, and sustains the cultures and backgrounds of our growing Students of Color population. Moving beyond pedagogies in classrooms, I examine culturally sustaining spaces in culture clubs and community-based organizations and how they cultivate the identity development and sense of belonging of Vietnamese American high school students. I find that these students have complex identities that are intersectional and ever changing, existing outside the Black-White binary. Vietnamese culture clubs provide a space that allows students to belong and express their identity in a positive way, but with curriculum as colonizer (Goodwin, 2010), schools have not yet become a place of belonging for all students. Community-based organizations provide alternative spaces that center the experiences of Vietnamese American students, allowing them to engage with their complex identities in a place that becomes like a home.

The Chav Youth Subculture and Its Representation in Academia as Anomalous Phenomenon

The Chav Youth Subculture and Its Representation in Academia as Anomalous Phenomenon

A study on the occupational challenges and coping strategies of the student athlete coaches

Purpose The purpose of this study was to understand student athletes coaches’ occupational challenges from the dual perspectives(social relationship-political system), to analyze the nature of the coping strategies for the challenges, and to provide implications for building a human rights-friendly student athletes club culture. Methods Five coaches(n=5, average career length= 19.2 years) were selected through purposeful sampling. Data were collected by semi-structured interviews with participants. The collected data were inductively analyzed(Patton, 2015). Results First, participants struggled with informal roles demanded by the interested parties(principals, athletic directors, parents, and university coaches). Second, the system for protecting student athletes’ learning rights, the 52-hour work system and the human rights system added difficulties to the coaches’ work environment. Third, the disharmony between interested parties’ demands and government agencies’ institutional ideals pushed participants to choose anti-institutional, un-ethical, un-educational coping strategies. Conclusion The findings suggest that the government, academia and the community should empower coaches as ‘the subject of reform’ who can solve the problem together rather than regarding them as ‘the object of reform.’ Furthermore, this conclusion is expected to provide implications to alleviate disharmony between interest parties’ demands and government agencies’ systems.’

Between marginalisation and integration: practising deaf sports in interwar Romania

The emergence and the development of deaf sports represent a neglected topic by historians. The importance of this topic consists on highlighting of the efforts for the integration of the deaf people into sports movement and society as a whole into certain period of time. The aim of this article is to take into the light the ways in which deaf sports appeared in interwar Romania and the different difficulties which this initiative encountered. In this manner, there are emphasized the creation of the ‘Deaf-and-Dumb Cultural and Sports Club’ in Bucharest (1934), the fruitless endeavors of Vasile Dimitriu-Leorda for admission of deaf football teams in the competitions organized by the Romanian Football Federation, the creation of Romania’s deaf national team (1938), and, also, Romania’s participation in the 1939 Stockholm Summer Deaflympics.

A balancing act: women players in a new semi-Professional team sport league

ABSTRACT Research question: Women commencing semi-professional careers in traditionally male team sports face unique opportunities and challenges. This study aimed to understand player's personal, organisational and societal barriers and supportive practices in their inaugural season as a semi-professional. Research methods: Players (N=46) contracted for the 2019 National Rugby League Women’s Premiership (Australia and New Zealand) completed an on-line questionnaire about the new league at the end of the first playing season. Additionally, players, coaches, and managers/executives (N = 22) were interviewed about this newly constituted career pathway and the ‘professionalisation’ of the women’s game. Results and findings: Data gathered were interrogated using an ecological-intersectional schema. Players were highly motivated intrinsically and strongly supported in their interpersonal environments. While the introduction of player payments was accompanied by increased expectations of the employing clubs; the level of remuneration was not viewed as sufficiently recompensing players for associated training, travel, playing and community commitments. Players with childcare responsibilities faced distinct barriers, with organisational policies yet to account for the distinct needs of this significant demographic cohort. Implications: In the first season adoption of existing, traditionally male-based, organisational norms and practices acted to legitimise the new women’s competition, but also placed considerable stress on players. Most of the players had two or more employment commitments simultaneously yet had limited job security. Policies and practices with the greatest positive impact for the women players included: child-care provision, development of an inclusive team and club culture, and providing coaching, training and support specifically tailored to meet women’s needs.

Case study of spreading Korean culture through activities of Korean culture club -Focusing on Paraguay fan dance club activities-

Case study of spreading Korean culture through activities of Korean culture club -Focusing on Paraguay fan dance club activities-

Digitalization in organized sport – usage of digital instruments in voluntary sports clubs depending on club's goals and organizational capacity

PurposeThe intention of this paper is to identify the scope and purpose of the use of digital tools in voluntary sports clubs (VSCs) and to identify club-specific factors that influence their usage behavior.Design/methodology/approachAn online survey was conducted among VSCs in Austria and in Germany (n = 787). To answer the key questions, patterns of digital use in VSCs were analyzed in relation to the overall organizational goals and organizational capacity. In addition to the description of the clubs' usage behavior patterns, a multiple linear regression model (blockwise) and quantile regression models were estimated.FindingsThe descriptive results show that digital instruments are most used in the areas of “internal/external communication” (93.7%) and “to report membership data to federations” (82.1%). The OLS and quantile regression models indicate that user behavior is primarily influenced by the following factors: the goals of “commitment/success in competitive sports” and “cooperation with other institutions”; the organizational factors “digital processes do not fit with our club culture”, “proportion of volunteers with administrative tasks”, “we do not yet have a clear digitalization strategy for our club” and “lack of financial resources for necessary IT investments”.Originality/valueDigital technologies appear to be promising for organizational development in VSCs. However, what the usage behavior of digital instruments in VSCs currently is, and by which factors this usage is influenced, has not been the focus of empirical analysis yet. The study provides initial insights into the understanding of digitalization in VSCs that can be used for consulting and ongoing research.

THE ARCHIVAL FUND OF VALKA DICTRICT COUNCIL CULTURE DEPARTMENT IN THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES OF LATVIA REGIONAL STATE ARCHIVE OF VALMIERA: THE ARCHIVAL AND HISTORICAL VALUE OF THE DOCUMENTS (1950 – 1991)

The topic of the article: The archival fund of Valka district council Culture department in the national archives of Latvia regional state archive of Valmiera: The archival and historical value of the documents (1950 – 1991). The documents of Valka district council Culture department are stored in regional state archive of Valmiera. The documents reveal the activities of Culture department including the culture clubs, libraries, museums, district clubs, musical schools, cinemas in the soviet times. Up to now these documents of this fond are not being investigated and analyzed therefore the aim of the work is to investigate these Valka Culture department fund documents, in order to define their archival and historical value, as well as to clarify the possibilities of use of these documents.

Barcelona, a musical olympus? Live concerts, club cultures, television and city branding

ABSTRACTThe 1992 Barcelona Olympic Games announced Spain’s democratic credentials and facilitated a vast urban regeneration project in the Catalan capital. There is extensive bibliography on the role played by culture in the forging of the so-called Barcelona model, but little attention has been paid thus far to popular music. Barcelona may lack Ibiza’s super-clubs, but, in the space of a generation, the city has gone from being a relative backwater to becoming a staple of major international tours, and music has increasingly become a popular tourist attraction. This is a logical albeit not necessarily intended consequence of Barcelona’s Olympic adventure. I begin with a preliminary survey of rock and pop concerts before exploring in the main section how and why live and recorded music performed a key but underexplored role in the success of the 1992 Olympic Games. A critical examination of the subsequent development of popular music in the Catalan capital will provide a means by which to grapple with the legacy of the Transition and Barcelona ’92 in post-recession Spain.

Guido Culture and Italian American Youth: From Bensonhurst to Jersey Shore by Donald Tricarico

Reviewed by: Guido Culture and Italian American Youth: From Bensonhurst to Jersey Shore by Donald Tricarico Andrea L. Dottolo Guido Culture and Italian American Youth: From Bensonhurst to Jersey Shore By Donald Tricarico New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019. xv + 332 pp. Cloth $89.99, e-book $69.99. Tony Manero in Saturday Night Fever. Pauly D in Jersey Shore. Gold chains, Cadillacs, The Godfather, "gym, tan, laundry," and "fuggedaboutit." This book traces the emergence and evolution of Guido youth culture in the United States. Donald Tricarico delineates Guido performance and identity as a product of a particular sociohistorical context—the 1970s—and the "turn to disco," specifically placed in Bensonhurst, New York. Tricarico defines Guido as an "Italian American youth culture practice" that serves as a collective identity, an ethnic identity, and a commodified identity, characterized by the conspicuous consumption of material objects, styles, clothes, hair, and media images, particularly celebrity and celebrity culture as illustrated in the imagery and references above (30). As Tricarico explains, "Saturday Night Fever and Jersey Shore are the textual bookends for the development of an Italian American youth subculture called Guido" (3). Through a collection of essays, the product of several book chapters and journal articles written over the course of twenty-six years, Tricarico explores multiple domains of Guido identity and culture, including style, cool, and the media. Tricarico is a professor of sociology and urban studies at Queensborough Community College. He locates himself as a cultural insider, with access to individuals and groups that self-identify as Guidos. While Tricarico does not describe a research methodology, he mentions personal conversations and joining chat rooms, while often quoting first-hand communications as evidence. The book is firmly situated in Italian-American studies, primarily sociology, [End Page 459] especially in its theoretical applications of youth subcultures and ethnicities as social constructs. While centered on the "turn to disco," Tricarico historicizes the roots of Guido culture in the baby boomer generation, those born after 1945, first in moments like American Bandstand in the 1950s, then to the "greasers" of the 1960s, and then later evolving with hip-hop and club culture, and eventually in online communities. Tricarico also describes Guido as a distillation of Italian ethnic identity, informed by and in response to immigration, where the children and grandchildren of Italian immigrants were able to claim their Italianness as Americans while also distancing from an old-world past. Guido was initially waged as an ethnic slur referring to a stigmatized performance of race, class, and gender, imposed by a more powerful majority. Like many other identity markers and social movements, Guido was then reclaimed and embraced as an insider marker of group membership and pride. There are several strengths of this text, including the inclusion of delightful color photographs of John Travolta, the Jersey shore, nightclubs and discotheques, local Guido celebrities, and ordinary Guidos and Guidettes out on the town. Tricarico is clearly an expert in urban studies and youth cultures, evidenced in his descriptions, explanations, and theoretical applications. He skillfully situates Guido as a performance of ethnic identity in a working-class context, exploring regional variations of Guido in the northeast United States and in Toronto, Canada. The introduction is strong and well written. However, I was disappointed at the lack of analysis of gender and sexuality. Endemic to the term "Guido" is masculinity, embodied in a man's name. There is minimal discussion of the Guidette, or even an analysis of Guido as a particularly masculinist performance. While features of Guido identity are discussed that are certainly marked as masculine and heteronormative, such as bodybuilding, car culture, and cruising, there is little analysis of the Guido as a heterosexual man or the way that patriarchy and compulsory heterosexuality function to sustain him. Perhaps this is due to the common challenge of claiming and interrogating privilege. As a collection of essays, each chapter stands alone, which could be useful for instructors who choose to assign individual sections. However, the book is missing a narrative arc, as there is a great deal of repetition across chapters, leaving less space for a richer unpacking of the important domains that Tricarico unveils about Guido culture. Nonetheless, this...

Hockey: A Global History by Stephen Hardy and Andrew C. Holman

HARDY, Stephen, and Andrew C. HOLMAN – Hockey: A Global History. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2018. Pp. 582. While most scholars agree that the modern sport of ice hockey was born in Montreal in or about 1875, Stephen Hardy and Andrew Holman, the authors of Hockey: A Global History, point out that the story is not so simple: the sport had antecedents, so Montreal should more accurately be seen as the place of “the game’s re-invention” (p. 36). The city had a vibrant bourgeois club culture and institutions such as the Montreal Amateur Athletic Association (MAAA) and the Victoria Skating Rink, where early progenitors such as James Aylwin Creighton, an engineer from Halifax, adapted rugby, field hockey, and lacrosse rules to a pre-existing informal stickand -ice game and made it popular. For the authors, the publication of a set of rules and the formation of a McGill University hockey club in 1877 marks the birth of what became known as the “Montreal Game,” and subsequent commercialization drove the sport’s rapid development, building on tournaments at regional events such as the Montreal Carnivals of the 1880s to the Stanley Cup competitions of the 1890s. Hardy and Holman frame the overall history of hockey as an oscillation between convergence and divergence over time and geography, with “contingency, individual interest, and luck” (p. 65) being crucial variables, especially before 1920. They identify four vectors of development: without the social groups of the “middle classes” aspiring to manly pursuits, without rail links to join their activities, and without indoor rinks to host them, hockey might not have flourished. And without the hockey evangelists who spread the gospel of the Montreal Game, hockey would not have become a global game. By the First World War, the game was poised for growth, with a focus on speed, skill, “star” players, and not a little on-ice savagery, along with accompanying innovations in technology (equipment and ice), organization (the corporate form), and marketing (the press). One of the highlights of the book is a rare analysis of playing styles, which in this era featured experimentation with on-ice strategies and tactics, such as positional alignments and combination plays. The authors perhaps miss an opportunity here to link the on-ice specialization to larger trends in industrial process evolution (Taylorism, for example). They do, however, highlight the strangest aspect of hockey—its normalization of workplace violence. Indeed, the authors argue that “mayhem” was an essential element of commercial hockey, one that, when added to individual skill and combination play, produced “a trinity of appeal” (p. 147) for spectators. The authors explain how the dominant form of hockey, which came to full flower in the 1920s in the form of the “major-league” NHL, primarily reflected white male social and economic power, but they also devote substantial space throughout the book to consider the class, language, race, and gender implications of the sport, and in particular the ways in which various groups expressed their own versions of the game. First, commercialization quickly brought proletarianization of hockey, as winning demanded recruitment outside the preferred bourgeois classes, who would rarely relinquish their day jobs for the itinerance of a hockey career. Francophones in Montreal also broke through, establishing their own clubs and a foothold in the NHL, supported by the consumer preferences of the large francophone market. Others were less fortunate. A player of First Nations descent, minor-pro player Bud Maracle (Haudenosaunee), had a difficult time breaking out of the category of racial novelty, as did whole clubs like the St. Catharines Orioles, which played only briefly in the Ontario Hockey Association. Women also had a hard slog. Although they had been participants from the beginning, and women’s and girls’ teams and leagues had a local and regional presence—and their own stars—the cultural equation of the game as a man’s sport “cast a long shadow” over the women’s game (p. 158) and limited its growth. (It continues today.) The book shines in providing the global perspective. When Canada features centrally it does for good reason, but the authors integrate the hockey histories of other nations and regions, in some cases requiring...

Hockey: A Global History by Stephen Hardy and Andrew C. Holman

Reviewed by: Hockey: A Global History by Stephen Hardy and Andrew C. Holman J. Andrew Ross Hardy, Stephen, and Andrew C. Holman – Hockey: A Global History. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2018. Pp. 582. While most scholars agree that the modern sport of ice hockey was born in Montreal in or about 1875, Stephen Hardy and Andrew Holman, the authors of Hockey: A Global History, point out that the story is not so simple: the sport had antecedents, so Montreal should more accurately be seen as the place of "the game's re-invention" (p. 36). The city had a vibrant bourgeois club culture and institutions such as the Montreal Amateur Athletic Association (MAAA) and the Victoria Skating Rink, where early progenitors such as James Aylwin Creighton, an engineer from Halifax, adapted rugby, field hockey, and lacrosse rules to a pre-existing informal stick-and-ice game and made it popular. For the authors, the publication of a set of rules and the formation of a McGill University hockey club in 1877 marks the birth of what became known as the "Montreal Game," and subsequent commercialization drove the sport's rapid development, building on tournaments at regional events such as the Montreal Carnivals of the 1880s to the Stanley Cup competitions of the 1890s. Hardy and Holman frame the overall history of hockey as an oscillation between convergence and divergence over time and geography, with "contingency, individual interest, and luck" (p. 65) being crucial variables, especially before 1920. They identify four vectors of development: without the social groups of the "middle classes" aspiring to manly pursuits, without rail links to join their activities, and without indoor rinks to host them, hockey might not have flourished. And without the hockey evangelists who spread the gospel of the Montreal Game, hockey would not have become a global game. [End Page 694] By the First World War, the game was poised for growth, with a focus on speed, skill, "star" players, and not a little on-ice savagery, along with accompanying innovations in technology (equipment and ice), organization (the corporate form), and marketing (the press). One of the highlights of the book is a rare analysis of playing styles, which in this era featured experimentation with on-ice strategies and tactics, such as positional alignments and combination plays. The authors perhaps miss an opportunity here to link the on-ice specialization to larger trends in industrial process evolution (Taylorism, for example). They do, however, highlight the strangest aspect of hockey—its normalization of workplace violence. Indeed, the authors argue that "mayhem" was an essential element of commercial hockey, one that, when added to individual skill and combination play, produced "a trinity of appeal" (p. 147) for spectators. The authors explain how the dominant form of hockey, which came to full flower in the 1920s in the form of the "major-league" NHL, primarily reflected white male social and economic power, but they also devote substantial space throughout the book to consider the class, language, race, and gender implications of the sport, and in particular the ways in which various groups expressed their own versions of the game. First, commercialization quickly brought proletarianization of hockey, as winning demanded recruitment outside the preferred bourgeois classes, who would rarely relinquish their day jobs for the itinerance of a hockey career. Francophones in Montreal also broke through, establishing their own clubs and a foothold in the NHL, supported by the consumer preferences of the large francophone market. Others were less fortunate. A player of First Nations descent, minor-pro player Bud Maracle (Haudenosaunee), had a difficult time breaking out of the category of racial novelty, as did whole clubs like the St. Catharines Orioles, which played only briefly in the Ontario Hockey Association. Women also had a hard slog. Although they had been participants from the beginning, and women's and girls' teams and leagues had a local and regional presence—and their own stars—the cultural equation of the game as a man's sport "cast a long shadow" over the women's game (p. 158) and limited its growth. (It continues today.) The book shines in providing the global perspective. When Canada features...

Being and Performing "Older" Woman in Electronic Dance Movement Culture

This article foregrounds the accounts of a cohort of clubbers who are largely ignored both by journalists and scholars alike. Grounded in the accounts of aging female clubbers and their participation in electronic dance music culture, it investigates the lived experience of being and performing the category of ‘older woman’ in this context. It examines the materiality of their participation and their tactical responses to being in an environment that has been associated traditionally with youth. In a landscape where scholarship on female participation in club cultures is, at best, scarce, research into the experiences of older women in dance music culture is virtually non-existent. As such this article represents a first step in addressing a significant gap in understanding women’s engagement with dance cultures as they mature.

One Foot in the Rave: Aging Ravers’ Transitions to Adulthood and Their Participation in Rave Culture

Challenging adolescence limited life-course theory, this article presents the results of an online survey in 2016 that aimed to establish if, how and to what extent ageing ravers continue to participate in rave culture. The survey collected data from members of the original rave generation. We explored the ravers’ transitions to adulthood, and how these influenced their participation in club culture. We found that our ravers continued to participate in rave culture; their persistence is related to the frequency of their engagement at a younger age. Adopting interdisciplinarity, we apply theories from both life course research and youth culture studies and argue that the persistence of leisure practices, such as raving, can be understood in the same way as persistence of drug use: frequent behavior in adolescence determines persistence in older adulthood. Consequently, we are able to recognize patterns of leisure beyond adolescence, thus making leisure choices more predictable.

Transmedia Festivals and the Accelerated Cultural Sector

Over the past couple of decades, urban transmedia festivals have gained a distinct presence in the European cultural landscape, constituting an alternative to other, more dominant, conceptions of music festivals. This article introduces transmedia festivals as a new type of contemporary festival and situates them in wider urban processes. Transmedia festivals originated on the fringes of new urban scenes, in which media art was overlapping with electronic music and club culture. Based on multi-year field research, this article argues that these festivals have become part of urban renewal processes. The core focus of this article is therefore how transmedia festivals are part of processes such as eventization, culturalization, precarization, and gentrification. Local and EU-funding-policies, moreover, impose opportunities and dilemmas on urban festivals. The article is a contribution to the still small area of cultural and urban studies on such festivals in Europe, and situates transmedia festivals within urban cultural change.

La izquierda judía progresista en Brasil: el caso de Rio Grande do Sul (1950-1970)

Entre 1950 y principios de la década del 60, el Club de Cultura de la ciudad de Porto Alegre en Brasil funcionó como un espacio de la izquierda judía de habla ídish para desarrollar actividades políticas y culturales. Ideológicamente adherido al Idisher Cultur Farband (ICUF) y ligado al Partido Comunista Brasileño, el Club de Cultura desde su fundación comenzó un proceso de permanente búsqueda de integración con la izquierda local. Al comenzar los años 60 se había convertido en un club porto-alegrense de la sociedad gaúcha, especialmente dedicado a la actividad teatral. El estudio del Club de Cultura muestra cómo la izquierda judía progresista, a través del activismo en sus instituciones, se integró a la sociedad brasileña.