Luis-Manuel Garcia
Biographic Data
| ID | 3694384 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Luis-Manuel Garcia |
| GIVEN NAMES | Luis-Manuel |
| FAMILY NAME | Garcia |
| SIGNATURE | GARCÍA L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Birmingham |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 46 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Agonistic festivities: Urban Nightlife Scenes and the Sociability of 'Anti-Social' Fun
Nightlife venues frequently find themselves in conflict with competing interests in and uses of urban space, and it is a rare occasion when municipal government or law enforcement comes to their defence. This article examines the role of conflict in the ongoing development of urban nightlife scenes, drawing on two contrasting case studies that took place in the autumn of 2016: the forced closure of Fabric nightclub in London and the recognition o…
Chicago house music, from dance floor to museum: The Frankie Knuckles Vinyl Collection
The Rebuild Foundation’s new site – the Stony Island Arts Bank on Chicago’s South Side – has been open since the beginning of October, and yet, the exhibit that initially generated the most press i
Techno-tourism and post-industrial neo-romanticism in Berlin's electronic dance music scenes
This article profiles the 'techno-tourists' of Berlin: music fans who return repeatedly to the city in order to participate in the local electronic dance music scenes. Based on interviews, this article sketches a profile of these music-minded voyagers, surveying their motivations, their attitudes, their patterns of travel and their strategies for making this mode of travel possible in terms of work and money. It also situates this recent wave of …
Beats, flesh, and grain: Sonic Tactility and Affect in Electronic Dance Music
This essay sets out to explore the tactilization of sound in electronic dance music (EDM), which offers an important sensory-affective bridge between touch, sonic experience, and an expansive sense of connection in dancing crowds. Electronic dance music events tend to engender spaces of heightened tactility and embodied intimacy, and so it should not be surprising that their musical aesthetics also highlight tactility. In track titles, lyrics, an…
Free Parties and Teknivals: Gift-Exchange and Participation on the Margins of the Market and the State
Through raves and then subsequently through "free parties" and "teknivals", French fans of electronic music have developed festive practices at the margins of the market and the state. In France, these events-especially so-called free parties-are often associated with free-access events or inversely with settings for parallel economies. And yet, these parties operate under a logic of gift-exchange, playing on its symbolic dimensions. The free par…
Pathological Crowds: Affect and Danger in Responses to the Love Parade Disaster at Duisburg
On and On: Repetition as Process and Pleasure in Electronic Dance Music
Repetition has often been cast in a negative light, associated with immature or regressive states. This view is reflected in music criticism and pedagogy, recast in aesthetic terms and it also reappears in cultural criticism, attacking repetition as a dangerous tool for social control. Defenses that have been mounted in favor of repetition seem inadequate in that they tend to recategorize certain repetitive practices as not-quite-repetition, rath…
Techno-tourism and post-industrial neo-romanticism in Berlin's electronic dance music scenes
This article profiles the 'techno-tourists' of Berlin: music fans who return repeatedly to the city in order to participate in the local electronic dance music scenes. Based on interviews, this article sketches a profile of these music-minded voyagers, surveying their motivations, their attitudes, their patterns of travel and their strategies for making this mode of travel possible in terms of work and money. It also situates this recent wave of …
Beats, flesh, and grain: Sonic Tactility and Affect in Electronic Dance Music
This essay sets out to explore the tactilization of sound in electronic dance music (EDM), which offers an important sensory-affective bridge between touch, sonic experience, and an expansive sense of connection in dancing crowds. Electronic dance music events tend to engender spaces of heightened tactility and embodied intimacy, and so it should not be surprising that their musical aesthetics also highlight tactility. In track titles, lyrics, an…
Agonistic festivities: Urban Nightlife Scenes and the Sociability of 'Anti-Social' Fun
Nightlife venues frequently find themselves in conflict with competing interests in and uses of urban space, and it is a rare occasion when municipal government or law enforcement comes to their defence. This article examines the role of conflict in the ongoing development of urban nightlife scenes, drawing on two contrasting case studies that took place in the autumn of 2016: the forced closure of Fabric nightclub in London and the recognition o…
On and On: Repetition as Process and Pleasure in Electronic Dance Music
Repetition has often been cast in a negative light, associated with immature or regressive states. This view is reflected in music criticism and pedagogy, recast in aesthetic terms and it also reappears in cultural criticism, attacking repetition as a dangerous tool for social control. Defenses that have been mounted in favor of repetition seem inadequate in that they tend to recategorize certain repetitive practices as not-quite-repetition, rath…
Free Parties and Teknivals: Gift-Exchange and Participation on the Margins of the Market and the State
Through raves and then subsequently through "free parties" and "teknivals", French fans of electronic music have developed festive practices at the margins of the market and the state. In France, these events-especially so-called free parties-are often associated with free-access events or inversely with settings for parallel economies. And yet, these parties operate under a logic of gift-exchange, playing on its symbolic dimensions. The free par…
Pathological Crowds: Affect and Danger in Responses to the Love Parade Disaster at Duisburg
On and On: Repetition as Process and Pleasure in Electronic Dance Music
Repetition has often been cast in a negative light, associated with immature or regressive states. This view is reflected in music criticism and pedagogy, recast in aesthetic terms and it also reappears in cultural criticism, attacking repetition as a dangerous tool for social control. Defenses that have been mounted in favor of repetition seem inadequate in that they tend to recategorize certain repetitive practices as not-quite-repetition, rath…
Pathological Crowds: Affect and Danger in Responses to the Love Parade Disaster at Duisburg
Techno-tourism and post-industrial neo-romanticism in Berlin's electronic dance music scenes
This article profiles the 'techno-tourists' of Berlin: music fans who return repeatedly to the city in order to participate in the local electronic dance music scenes. Based on interviews, this article sketches a profile of these music-minded voyagers, surveying their motivations, their attitudes, their patterns of travel and their strategies for making this mode of travel possible in terms of work and money. It also situates this recent wave of …
Beats, flesh, and grain: Sonic Tactility and Affect in Electronic Dance Music
This essay sets out to explore the tactilization of sound in electronic dance music (EDM), which offers an important sensory-affective bridge between touch, sonic experience, and an expansive sense of connection in dancing crowds. Electronic dance music events tend to engender spaces of heightened tactility and embodied intimacy, and so it should not be surprising that their musical aesthetics also highlight tactility. In track titles, lyrics, an…
Free Parties and Teknivals: Gift-Exchange and Participation on the Margins of the Market and the State
Through raves and then subsequently through "free parties" and "teknivals", French fans of electronic music have developed festive practices at the margins of the market and the state. In France, these events-especially so-called free parties-are often associated with free-access events or inversely with settings for parallel economies. And yet, these parties operate under a logic of gift-exchange, playing on its symbolic dimensions. The free par…
Chicago house music, from dance floor to museum: The Frankie Knuckles Vinyl Collection
The Rebuild Foundation’s new site – the Stony Island Arts Bank on Chicago’s South Side – has been open since the beginning of October, and yet, the exhibit that initially generated the most press i
Agonistic festivities: Urban Nightlife Scenes and the Sociability of 'Anti-Social' Fun
Nightlife venues frequently find themselves in conflict with competing interests in and uses of urban space, and it is a rare occasion when municipal government or law enforcement comes to their defence. This article examines the role of conflict in the ongoing development of urban nightlife scenes, drawing on two contrasting case studies that took place in the autumn of 2016: the forced closure of Fabric nightclub in London and the recognition o…
Computer Science (4 works) · Art (3 works) · Music History and Culture (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Art history (2 works) · Dance (2 works) · Electronic dance music (2 works) · Music Technology and Sound Studies (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works)