Luis Manuel Garcia-Mispireta (Writer and researcher)

LMGM (Luis Manuel Garcia-Mispireta) researches, writes, and teaches about popular music through an ethnographic lens. His research focuses on electronic dance music scenes, affect/feeling, queer belonging, musical activism, creative industries, and musical migration. He has written about “techno tourism” in Berlin, queerness & race/ethnicity in club cultures, and sonic tactility. His new book is entitled Together Somehow: Music, Affect, and Intimacy on the Dancefloor (Duke University Press, 2023). He is a member and resident DJ of Berlin’s queer intersectional rave collective, Room4Resistance.