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Author: | Goulding, C. Shankar, A. |
Title: | Club culture, neotribalism and ritualised behaviour |
Journal: | Annals of Tourism Research
2011 : OCT, VOL. 38:4, p. 1435-1453 |
Index terms: | tourism tourist industry leisure clubs culture behavioural science |
Freeterms: | rave neo-tribalism ritualism co-production grounded theory |
Language: | eng |
Abstract: | Since its birth in the early 80s on the Spanish island of Ibiza, club culture has evolved from a countercultural hedonistic experience (rave) to a global, commodified sector of the tourism and leisure industries. Through a longitudinal, qualitative study of behaviour at one of the major U.K. clubs, explored is the nature of clubbing, proposing the concept of ritual as an explanatory framework for understanding this neo-tribal co-created experience. Drawing on ritual theory, it is herein suggested that clubbing has a quasi-spiritual element to it based on the components of mythology, ... , sacredness, and transformation. |
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