51 min
Ethnography and Queer Intimacies on the Dance Floor with Luis Manuel Garcia-Mispireta Sound Expertise
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- Music Commentary
How does one come to study a topic that is on the margins of an academic discipline? What does it mean to do ethnographic fieldwork amidst the intimacies of the dance floor––and what are the challenges of doing so in queer spaces? A wide-ranging conversation with ethnomusicologist Luis-Manuel Garcia, on his scholarly journey from early music to rave culture to gay fetish parties in Berlin.
Luis Manuel Garcia-Mispireta is Lecturer in Ethnomusicology and Popular Music Studies at the University of Birmingham.
Show notes and more over at soundexpertise.org!
Questions? Thoughts? Share them with Will on Twitter @seatedovation
How does one come to study a topic that is on the margins of an academic discipline? What does it mean to do ethnographic fieldwork amidst the intimacies of the dance floor––and what are the challenges of doing so in queer spaces? A wide-ranging conversation with ethnomusicologist Luis-Manuel Garcia, on his scholarly journey from early music to rave culture to gay fetish parties in Berlin.
Luis Manuel Garcia-Mispireta is Lecturer in Ethnomusicology and Popular Music Studies at the University of Birmingham.
Show notes and more over at soundexpertise.org!
Questions? Thoughts? Share them with Will on Twitter @seatedovation
51 min