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Book SynopsisDrawing on fieldwork in the minimal techno and house music sub-scenes in Chicago, Paris, and Berlin, Luis Manuel Garcia-Mispireta shows that people get along and share the dancefloor by an intimacy and belonging rooted in affect.
Trade Review“
Together, Somehow takes readers past the velvet rope and onto the dancefloors, into the backrooms and bathrooms, and up to the DJ booths at legendary clubs like Berghain and one-off raves in the Midwest. It is one of those joyous books where passion meets erudition on every page, presenting a compelling portrait of the contemporary electronic dance music scene. Giving us in many ways the prehistory of the racial and gender reckoning that nightlife is going through right now,
Together, Somehow will stand as one of the essential works on EDM.” -- Tavia Nyong’o, author of * Afro-Fabulations: The Queer Drama of Black Life *
“Luis Manuel Garcia-Mispireta serves us a much-anticipated, technicolor musicological response to the enveloping, multisensory experiences on the dancefloor that queer studies and performance theorists of color have dominated in analysis for quite some time. From start to finish, Garcia-Mispireta gives us rigorous analysis we can feel in the oft-neglected research on the dynamics of affective connection among electronic dance music enthusiasts both as everyday listeners and music researchers. Undoubtedly, readers will find themselves reclaiming previously contested sonic world utopias.” -- Alisha Lola Jones, author of * Flaming?: The Peculiar Theopolitics of Fire and Desire in Black Male Gospel Performance *
Table of ContentsPreface ix
Introduction 1
1. Touch and Intimacy on the Dancefloor 37
2. Sonic Tactility 65
3. Liquidarity 91
4. Thickening Something 124
5. The Sweetness of Coming Undone 151
6. Bouncers, Door Policies, and Embedded Diversity 183
Epilogue 216
Notes 235
Bibliography 267
Index 291
