Live music in a virtual world: Exuberant flourishing and disability at wheelies nightclub in second life

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Live music in a virtual world: Exuberant flourishing and disability at wheelies nightclub in second life

© 2015 Angela Cresswell Jones and Rebecca Jane Bennett. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. This chapter explores the virtual world Second Life and specifically one of its more famous nightclub venues. Wheelies opened in 2006 as a virtual nightclub that catered to both people with disabi...

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Main Authors:	Kent, M., Ellis, Katie
Format:	Book Chapter
Published:	2015
Online Access:	http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/37869

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