Article about Producing and Consuming Nightlife

Hey Guys!

I found this article: https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/40542703.pdf
its a pdf, so it might just download right away if you click on it haha

but if you don't want to read, here is my little summary:

The article is basically about nightlife in a general sense, and how individuals produce and consume it within a post industrial city. Sociologists and Ethnographers have used venues in the past to study marginalised groups as well as how economic shifts have resulted in regenerated a city's downtown into a thriving nightlife.

Grazian, a professor at University of Pennsylvania believes that the production and consumption of nightlife is a game of "trickery", with the producers of specific events using lighting, decor and dress code to construct different nightlife spaces. Many consumers know they are in a constructed environment and "suspend disbelief in order to enjoy the urban nightlife". I think Grazian can shed some light on some subculture music venues as they may add an air of hyperreality, as well as how space may influence behaviour.

Although this article focuses mainly on "popular nightlife" ie clubs, restaurants etc. It does depict how many of these nightlife venues are exclusionary; (dress code, some racist door policies, price of admission). This is important as it limits the "heterogeneity of the clientele". Not only that but it does portray how some leisurely activities like going to listen to your favourite music at certain venues feed into the growth of the post industrial city and capitalist society.

I think this article generally adds a context to leisure in terms of nightlife, but may add to our experiment. For instance, it touches upon how the use of aesthetic and auditory aspects may influence patrons behaviour at certain venues. It also displays how exclusionary tactics are implemented meaning that certain venues and nightlife experiences are out of reach to some. These are all aspects we want to touch upon while we are doing our experiment-whether when we are observing at specific gigs or engaging with the activities around us.

Hope you guys are doing well :)
Charlotte