Revolutionary Nostalgia

Retromania, Neo-Burlesque, and Consumer Culture

Häftad, Engelska, 2018

Av Marie-Cécile Cervellon, Stephen Brown, France) Cervellon, Marie-Cecile (EDHEC Business School, UK) Brown, Stephen (Ulster University

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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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Utgivningsdatum2018-10-31
Mått129 x 198 x 14 mm
Vikt254 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieEmerald Studies in Alternativity and Marginalization Book Set (2017-2019)
Antal sidor232
FörlagEmerald Publishing Limited
ISBN9781787693463

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Marie-Cécile Cervellon is Professor of Marketing at EDHEC Business School, France, with a teaching expertise in brand management and luxury marketing. She has published in major international journals, including MIT Sloan Management Review, Journal of Business Research, and International Journal of Research in Marketing and has been quoted in Newsweek, The Financial Times, and The New York Times among other press outlets. Stephen Brown is Professor of Marketing Research at Ulster University Business School, UK. He specializes in retro branding, arts marketing and authorpreneurship. He has published in many leading Marketing journals including the Harvard Business Review, Journal of Marketing, Journal of Consumer Research, Journal of Retailing and the Journal of Historical Research in Marketing. He is the winner of numerous best paper prizes, including the Hans B. Thorelli Award.

List of FiguresPreface: Retromania in RetrospectChapter 1. Introduction: Welcome to WonderlandSection I: Past and Present Chapter 2. Borne Back Ceaselessly Chapter 3. Wheel Meet Again Chapter 4. Come the Revolution Section II: Focus and Findings Chapter 5. Burlesque in Brief Chapter 6. Considering Consumer Culture Chapter 7. Fans of Freedom Section III: Context and Concepts Chapter 8. Ghost Dance Stance Chapter 9. Retro Rising Redux Chapter 10. Dancing is Life Chapter 11. Conclusion: At the Hop Appendix I: Definitions of Nostalgia Appendix II: List of Informants

The authors examine the idea of revolutionary nostalgia through neo-burlesque in France, Britain, the US, and elsewhere, and its rebellious feminism, as well as its context of consumer culture. They discuss the concepts of nostalgia, retro, and revolutionaries and insurgents; the rise, fall, and return of burlesque and its current revolutionary intentions; and conceptualizing neo-burlesque, nostalgia, and retro marketing in general.