BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//132.216.98.100//NONSGML kigkonsult.se iCalcreator 2.20.4// BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20260802T193743EDT-2509xPVEoV@132.216.98.100 DTSTAMP:20260802T233743Z DESCRIPTION:The Doctoral Colloquium is open to all.\n\nDoctoral Colloquium:  Kiersten Beszterda van Vliet\, PhD Candidate\, Musicology and Gender & Wo men's Studies\, 91˿Ƶ\n\n\nTitle: Dancing Queens: Making the D iscotheque Gay in Montreal\, 1968–79\n\nAbstract: In 1979\, Billboard maga zine dubbed Montreal disco’s “second city” after New York. As Will Straw h as observed (2014)\, this status was due to how the city’s musical market functioned as a tastemaker. Rather than major producers of music\, at the height of the 1970s disco era Montrealers were noted consumers of disco re cords\, and the city itself was a litmus test for which records would late r “break” into other markets and become hits.\n\nNotably\, disco is common ly associated with a large\, visible gay market. Various theorists have pr oposed explanations for this phenomenon: the permanent breakaway of disco dancing is liberatory for same-sex dancers (Lawrence 2011)\, or the mechan ized four-on-the-floor beat is disciplining and organizing dancers (Hughes 1994). Another hypothesis for the link between gay men and disco is histo rical: gay territorialization of discothèques from existing nighttime econ omies led to the development of distinct club-cultures.\n\nIn this present ation I trace the growth of Montreal’s gay market for disco and the influe nce of these club-cultures on the city’s reputation within the music indus try. Starting from the discothèque as the site of disco consumption\, I lo ok at how these spaces were appropriated by gay men from the late-1960s by evaluating primary sources from the Archives gaies du Québec\, including periodicals\, maps\, and guides. Ultimately\, I propose disco—as musical g enre\, dance\, and mode of consumption—is inherently urban\, and disco cul ture promoted an idea of collective pleasure in urban space that fostered new spaces of sexual citizenship in Montreal and beyond.\n\n\nBio: Kierste n Beszterda van Vliet is a PhD candidate in Musicology and Gender & Women’ s Studies at 91˿Ƶ\, in Montreal. Their dissertation project\, history of LGBTQ club cultures in Montreal between 1970–1990\, is funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC). Kiersten is also a labour rights activist and former president of the Asso ciation of Graduate Students Employed at 91˿Ƶ (AGSEM).\n DTSTART:20240207T213000Z DTEND:20240207T230000Z LOCATION:A-832\, Elizabeth Wirth Music Building\, CA\, QC\, Montreal\, H3A 1E3\, 527 rue Sherbrooke Ouest SUMMARY:Doctoral Colloquium (Music) | Kiersten Beszterda van Vliet URL:/music/channels/event/doctoral-colloquium-music-ki ersten-beszterda-van-vliet-354598 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR