Together, Somehow: Music, Affect, and Intimacy on the Dancefloor
- Author: Garcia-Mispireta, Luis Manuel
Together, Somehow: Music, Affect, and Intimacy on the Dancefloor
- Author: Garcia-Mispireta, Luis Manuel
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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.
Contents
- 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
