Together, Somehow

Music, Affect, and Intimacy on the Dancefloor

Luis Manuel Garcia-Mispireta (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

320 Seiten

2023
Duke University Press (Verlag)
9781478020080 (ISBN)

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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.

Preface 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

Erscheinungsdatum	21.07.2023
Zusatzinfo	20 illustrations
Verlagsort	North Carolina
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	590 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Musiktheorie / Musiklehre
ISBN-13	9781478020080 / 9781478020080
Zustand	Neuware