Paul Chatterton, Robert Hollands

Urban Nightscapes

Youth Cultures, Pleasure Spaces and Corporate Power

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Produktbeschreibung

In many western cities, urban nightlife is experiencing a 'McDonaldisation', where big branded names are taking over large parts of downtown areas, leaving consumers with an increasingly standardised experience. This book takes a new look at this rapidly changing aspect of urban life, examining the relationships between young adults, nightlife and city spaces. It focuses on what the authors call 'urban nightscapes' - both mainstream and alternative youthful cultural activities in bars, pubs, night-clubs and music venues, which occur against a backdrop of increasing corporate influence in the night-time economy.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 300
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Mai 2003
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 640g
• ISBN-13: 9780415283458
• ISBN-10: 0415283450
• Artikelnr.: 21779971

Autorenporträt

Paul Chatterton, Robert Hollands

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction. Making urban nightscapes Part I - Understanding Nightlife
Processes and Spaces, Producing, Regulating and Consuming Urban Nightscapes
2. Producing nightlife: Corporatisation, branding and market segmentation
in the urban entertainment economy 3. Regulating nightlife: Profit, fun and
(dis)order 4. Consuming nightlife: Youth cultural identities, transitions
and lifestyle divisions Part II - Urban Nightlife Stories. Experiencing
Mainstream, Residual and Alternative Spaces 5. Pleasure, profit and youth
in the corporate playground: Branding and gentrification in mainstream
nightlife 6. Selling nightlife in studentland 7. Sexing the mainstream:
Young women and gay cultures in the night 8. Residual Youth Nightlife:
Community, tradition and social exclusion 9. 'You've gotta fight for your
right to party'. Alternative nightlife on the margins 10. Nightlife
visions. Beyond the corporate nightlife machine