2024 Ruth Stone Prize Winner
2025 Woody Guthrie Award winner
A01=Luis Manuel Garcia-Mispireta
Author_Luis Manuel Garcia-Mispireta
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IASPM-US prize winner
International Association for the Study of Popular Music-US Branch
Society for Ethnomusicology book awards
stranger intimacy
Product details
- ISBN 9781478025047
- Weight: 454g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 08 Aug 2023
- Publisher: Duke University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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In Together, Somehow, Luis Manuel Garcia-Mispireta examines how people find ways to get along and share a dancefloor, a vibe, and a sound. Drawing on time spent in the minimal techno and house music subscenes in Chicago, Paris, and Berlin as the first decade of the new millennium came to a close, Garcia-Mispireta explains this bonding in terms of what he calls stranger-intimacy: the kind of warmth, sharing, and vulnerability between people that happens surprisingly often at popular electronic dance music parties. He shows how affect lubricates the connections between music and the dancers. Intense shared senses of sound and touch help support a feeling of belonging to a larger social world. However, as Garcia-Mispireta points out, this sense of belonging can be vague, fluid, and may hide exclusions and injustices. By showing how sharing a dancefloor involves feeling, touch, sound, sexuality, and subculture, Garcia-Mispireta rethinks intimacy and belonging through dancing crowds and the utopian vision of throbbing dancefloors.
Luis Manuel Garcia-Mispireta is Associate Professor in Ethnomusicology and Popular Music Studies at the University of Birmingham.
