BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//132.216.98.100//NONSGML kigkonsult.se iCalcreator 2.20.4// BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20260701T130344EDT-6954KVG2rC@132.216.98.100 DTSTAMP:20260701T170344Z 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\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\, 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 (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