Revolutionary Nostalgia
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Revolutionary Nostalgia

Retromania, Neo-Burlesque, and Consumer Culture

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Revolutionary Nostalgia

Retromania, Neo-Burlesque, and Consumer Culture

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Nostalgia, they say, is not what it used to be. Once a witticism, this statement about the past has come to pass. Nostalgia really isn't what it used to be. Less than a generation ago, it was regarded as reactionary, as regressive, as reprehensible. Now, it is considered conducive to health, wealth, and human wellbeing. It is something that helps sell products and move merchandise, an underexploited critical resource with emancipatory potential.
Nowhere is this transformation better illustrated than in the neo-burlesque community, whose members not only embrace the art-form's golden age, and happily acquire heritage goods and vintage services, but turn their nostalgic leanings to emancipatory effect. They are retro revolutionaries, feather boa-wearing insurgents who find women's liberation in sequins and stilettos.
This book shines a spotlight on weapons-grade nostalgia, indicating how it is integral to insurrections throughout history, be they political, technological, or cultural. It reveals, through a combination of empirical ethnographic research and revolutionary literary criticism, the part nostalgia plays in a subversive consumer collective that uses fans, fishnets, and frivolity to fight for the right to party against patriarchy and find a fourth-wave form of female emancipation that foregoes old-school feminist fault-finding for good old-fashioned fun, fun, fun.

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Publisher
Emerald Publishing Limited
Year
2018
ISBN
9781787693432
Topic
Social Sciences
Subtopic
Popular Culture
Index
Social Sciences

Table of contents

  1. Revolutionary Nostalgia
  2. Revolutionary Nostalgia
  3. Retromania, Neo-Burlesque and Consumer Culture
  4. Contents
  5. Preface: Retromania in Retrospect
  6. Introduction
  7. Chapter 1: Welcome to Wonderland
  8. Section I: Past & Present
  9. Chapter 2: Borne Back Ceaselessly
  10. Chapter 3: Wheel Meet Again
  11. Chapter 4: Come the Revolution
  12. Section II: Focus & Findings
  13. Chapter 5: Burlesque in Brief
  14. Chapter 6: Considering Consumer Culture
  15. Chapter 7: Fans of Freedom
  16. Section III: Context & Concepts
  17. Chapter 8 : Ghost Dance Stance
  18. Chapter 9: Retro Rising Redux
  19. Chapter 10: Dancing is Life
  20. Conclusion
  21. Chapter 11: At the Hop
  22. Appendix 1: Some Definitions of Nostalgia
  23. Appendix 2: List of Informants
  24. References
  25. Index