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Luis Manuel Garcia-Mispireta, PhD
a.k.a. LMGM

Educator, Researcher, Writer, Activist, Organizer, DJHEAR MY NAME (audio)

About

I party so you don't have to. Queer AF, post-migrant Canadian of Peruvian-Colombian ancestry. Multiple migrant (Toronto, Berlin, Chicago, Paris, Birmingham, Groningen). Ceviche specialist.Scholar, curator, and practitioner of popular electronic music, using practice-led ethnographic methods.
- PhD U Chicago 2011 (ethnomusicology)
Gay affinity animal: capybara.

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AWARDS, PRIZES, AND REVIEWS FOR
Together, Somehow: Music, Affect, and Intimacy on the Dancefloor (Duke UP, 2023)

PRESS & INTERVIEWS

2023–24 BOOK TOUR• PITTSBURGH, PA (U Pittsburgh)
• CHICAGO, IL (SmartBar)
• DURHAM, NC (Duke U & U North Carolina Chapel Hill)
• MONTRÉAL, QC (American Studies Association)
• TORONTO, ON (U Toronto & StandardTime.to)
• PRAGUE, CZ (Ankali)
• BERLIN, DE (CTM Festival)
• GRONINGEN, NL (Music Matters, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen)
• POMONA, CA (Cal Poly Pomona)
• RIVERSIDE, CA (UC Riverside)
• BERKELEY, CA (UC Berkeley)
• ONLINE (Popular Music Books in Progress series; Archived Recording )
• PARIS, FR (Bar à Bulles / La Machine du Moulin Rouge)
• LYON, FR (Nuits Sonores Festival)

Recent Work & Ongoing Projects

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