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.
2023–24 BOOK TOUR
Together, Somehow: Music, Affect, and Intimacy on the Dancefloor (Duke UP, 2023)
• SEP 20–22: PITTSBURGH, PA (U Pittsburgh)
• OCT 7: CHICAGO, IL (SmartBar)
• OCT 24–27: DURHAM, NC (Duke U & U North Carolina Chapel Hill)
• NOV 5: MONTRÉAL, QC (American Studies Association)
• NOV 16: TORONTO, ON (StandardTime.to)
• NOV 20: TORONTO, ON (U Toronto)
• JAN 12: PRAGUE, CZ (Ankali)
• FEB 2: BERLIN, DE (CTM Festival)
• FEB 20: GRONINGEN, NL (Music Matters, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen)
• FEB 26–27: POMONA, CA (Cal Poly Pomona)
• FEB 28: RIVERSIDE, CA (UC Riverside)
• MAR 1: BERKELEY, CA (UC Berkeley)
• MAR 4: ONLINE (Popular Music Books in Progress series; Archived Recording )
• MAY 9: LYON, FR (Nuits Sonores Festival)
…more to come!
Recent Work & Press
BOTTOMS UP ZINE January 2024: "From the Bottoms Up: Berlin Queer Nightlife and Community Organising" (PDF: machine readable; printable; black & white) A FREE, open-source report on a Summer 2023 community consultation project. Part of a NEW PROJECT (see below).
NEW BOOK August 2023: Together, Somehow: Music, Affect, and Intimacy on the Dancefloor. Monograph (single-author book). Duke University Press.
INTERVIEW about Together, Somehow, with Joshua Glazer for Billboard Magazine, Aug 10, 2023.
INTERVIEW about Together, Somehow, with Todd L. Burns for the Music Journalism Insider newsletter, Aug 7, 2023.
INTERVIEW/DISCUSSION about Together, Somehow with Maren Hancock for the Popular Music Books in Progress series, Mar 4, 2024. Archived Recording
AWARDS for Together, Somehow: Duke University Press Scholars of Color First Book Award; AMS 75 Publication Award for Young Scholars (American Musicological Society)
2023 NEW PROJECT: "From the Bottoms Up: Grassroots Organizing Among Queer Intersectional Rave Collectives", initial funding by AHRC Impact Acceleration Account (Press Release)
2022 LECTURE: "Bouncers, Door Policies, Multiculturalism" (MixCloud). Presented at Unsafe Sounds Festival, 1 October 2022.
Ongoing publication: The Oxford Handbook of Electronic Dance Music. Co-edited with Robin James. Oxford University Press.
2021: Ethnography and Queer Intimacies on the Dance Floor with Luis-Manuel Garcia Interview by Will Robin for Sound Expertise Podcast.
2020: “Feeling the Vibe: Sound, Vibration, and Affective Attunement in Electronic Dance Music Scenes.” Ethnomusicology Forum. DOI: 10.1080/17411912.2020.1733434
2019: LMGM Ambient DJ set @ Room 4 Resistance, Berlin.
2019: LMGM Rave DJ set (closing) @ Room 4 Resistance, Berlin.
SEE BELOW FOR FULL CV
Links
Room 4 Resistance (Berlin)
Staff profile at the University of Birmingham (UK)
For Resident Advisor: "An alternate history of sexuality in club culture." (2013)
Soundcloud profile for Room 4 Resistance
My sporadically updated LMGMblog
Luis in Paris (DORMANT), PhD fieldwork blog, 2006–2011
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