Dr. Luis-Manuel Garcia: "The Call as Sonic Act: Engagement, Interpellation, Ethics" (Tuesday Nov. 5, 4PM)

The Center for Ethnomusicology is pleased to present a public talk by:

Dr. Luis-Manuel Garcia

"The Call as Sonic Act: Engagement, Interpellation, Ethic."

Columbia University Morningside Campus (116th and Broadway)
Reception to Follow

As with all Center events:
Free and Open to All People, Children and Caregivers Welcome

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Speaker Biography:

Luis-Manuel Garcia is a Lecturer in Ethnomusicology and Popular Music Studies at the University of Birmingham. He is also a member and resident DJ of Room 4 Resistance, a Berlin-based queer intersectional rave collective. His research focuses on urban electronic dance music scenes, with a focus on affect, intimacy, sexuality, creative industries and musical migration. He is currently researching ‘techno-tourism’ and musical mobility in Berlin while completing a monograph entitled, Together Somehow: Music, Affect, and Intimacy on the Dancefloor.

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Selected Publications of Dr. Garcia:

Garcia, L-M 2018, Whose refuge, this house? the estrangement of queers of color in electronic dance music. in FE Maus & S Whiteley (eds), The Oxford Handbook of Music and Queerness. Oxford University Press, Oxford. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199793525.013.49

Garcia, L-M 2016, 'Beats, Flesh, and Grain', Sound Studies, vol. 1, pp. 59–76. https://doi.org/10.1080/20551940.2015.1079072

Garcia, L-M 2016, 'Techno-Tourism and Postindustrial Neo-Romanticism in Berlin's Electronic Dance Music Scenes', Tourist Studies, vol. 16, no. 3, pp. 276-295. https://doi.org/10.1177/1468797615618037

Garcia, L-M 2018, ‘With Every Inconceivable Finesse, Excess, and Good Music’: Sex, Affect, and Techno at Snax Club in Berlin. in N Gregor & T Irvine (eds), Dreams of Germany: Musical Imaginaries from the Concert Hall to the Dance Floor. Berghahn Books Inc., New York, pp. 73-96.

Garcia, L-M 2018, 'Agonistic festivities: urban nightlife scenes and the sociability of ‘anti-social’ fun', Annals of Leisure Research, vol. 21, no. 4, pp. 462-479. https://doi.org/10.1080/11745398.2017.1398097