Luis Manuel Garcia

Accepting PhD Students

PhD projects

Dr Garcia is happy to discuss potential supervision with postgraduate candidates pursuing ethnographic research on topics relating to electronic dance music, affect, tourism and migration, sound studies, gender/sexuality, queer theory, creative industries, and projects relating to the music of Birmingham.

Research activity per year

25 results

2024
Community Building from The Bottoms Up: Participatory / Co-Creative Research with Berlin’s Queer Nightlife Collectives
Garcia, L. M., 27 Jun 2024, In: Mediapolis: A Journal of Cities and Culture. 2, 9
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

Open Access
From the Bottoms Up: Berlin Queer Nightlife & Community Organising
Garcia, L. M., 31 Jan 2024, 34 p.
Research output: Other contribution

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2023
Together, Somehow: Music, Affect, and Intimacy on the Dancefloor
Garcia, L. M., 8 Aug 2023, Duke University Press. 320 p.
Research output: Book/Report › Book
2020
Feeling the vibe: sound, vibration, and affective attunement in electronic dance music scenes
Garcia, L-M., 2 Jan 2020, In: Ethnomusicology Forum. p. 21–39
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
2019
The Oxford Handbook of Electronic Dance Music
Garcia, L-M. (ed.) & James, R. (ed.), 2019, (In preparation) Oxford University Press. (Oxford Handbooks)
Research output: Book/Report › Anthology
The queer concerns of nightlife fieldwork
Garcia, L-M., 13 Sept 2019, Queering the field: sounding out ethnomusicology. Barz, G. & Cheng, W. (eds.). Oxford University Press, p. 337-354 18 p.
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
2018
Agonistic festivities: urban nightlife scenes and the sociability of ‘anti-social’ fun
Garcia, L-M., 2018, In: Annals of Leisure Research. 21, 4, p. 462-479 18 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

Open Access
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2 Citations (Scopus)

517 Downloads (Pure)
Review: Gavin Steingo, Kwaito's Promise: Music and the Aesthetics of Freedom in South Africa (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2016), ISBN 978-0-226-36240-3 (hb), ISBN 978-0-226-36254-0 (pb)
Garcia, L-M., 15 Aug 2018, In: Twentieth-Century Music. 15, 2, p. 309-316 8 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article review
Whose refuge, this house? the estrangement of queers of color in electronic dance music
Garcia, L-M., 9 Oct 2018, The Oxford Handbook of Music and Queerness. Maus, F. E. & Whiteley, S. (eds.). Oxford: Oxford University Press, 33 p.
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review
‘With Every Inconceivable Finesse, Excess, and Good Music’: Sex, Affect, and Techno at Snax Club in Berlin
Garcia, L-M., Dec 2018, Dreams of Germany: Musical Imaginaries from the Concert Hall to the Dance Floor. Gregor, N. & Irvine, T. (eds.). New York: Berghahn Books Inc., p. 73-96 24 p.
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

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2017
Qualitative Tourism Research
Buda, D., Martini, A. & Garcia, L-M., 2017, The SAGE International Encyclopedia of Travel and Tourism. Lowry, L. (ed.). SAGE Publications
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Entry for encyclopedia/dictionary
2016
Beats, flesh, and grain: sonic tactility and affect in electronic dance music
Garcia, L-M., 1 Feb 2016, In: Sound Studies. 1, 1, p. 59–76 17 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

Open Access
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Drugs policies and electronic music culture
Garcia, L-M., 6 Jan 2016
Research output: Non-textual form › Web publication/site

Open Access
Techno-Tourism and Postindustrial Neo-Romanticism in Berlin's Electronic Dance Music Scenes
Garcia, L-M., 22 Sept 2016, In: Tourist Studies. 16, 3, p. 276-295 20 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
13 Citations (Scopus)

552 Downloads (Pure)
2015
At home, I'm a tourist: Musical migration and affective citizenship in Berlin
Garcia, L-M., 21 Aug 2015, In: Journal of Urban Cultural Studies. 2, 1+2, p. 121-134 14 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

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Free parties et teknivals: Dans les marges du marché et de l’état, système de don et participation
Translated title of the contribution: Free Parties and Teknivals: Gift-Exchange and Participation on the Margins of the Market and the StateGarcia, L-M. (Translator) & Petiau, A., 2015, In: Dancecult. 7, 1, p. 116-128
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

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'Moving (in) Feeling': Affective Theories in Sound and Tourism
Garcia, L-M. & Buda, D., 14 Oct 2015.
Research output: Contribution to conference (unpublished) › Other › peer-review
2014
An/Aesthetics: A Lecture-Performance
Garcia, L-M. & LaBelle, B., 16 Oct 2014
Research output: Non-textual form › Performance
An alternate history of sexuality in club culture
Garcia, L-M., 28 Jan 2014, Resident Advisor.
Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › Featured article
A pre-history of the electronic music festival
Garcia, L-M., 14 Jul 2014, Resident Advisor.
Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › Featured article
Attias, Bernardo, Anna Gavanas, and Hillegonda Rietveld, DJ Culture in the mix: Power, Technology, and Social Change in Electronic Dance Music
Garcia, L-M., 2014, In: The World of Music. 3, 2, p. 151-155 5 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article review › peer-review
2013
Crowd Solidarity on the Dancefloor in Paris and Berlin: Musical Performance and the Changing City
Garcia, L-M., 2013, Musical Performance and the Changing City. Routledge, p. 227-255 29 p. (Routledge Research in Music).
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
GEMA and the Threat to German Nightlife
Garcia, L-M., 24 Apr 2013, Resident Advisor.
Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › Featured article
Guest Editor's Introduction: Doing Nightlife and EDMC Fieldwork
Garcia, L-M., 2013, In: Dancecult. 5, 1, p. 3-17 15 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

Open Access
2010
Showdown in Spreepark: Minimoo, Bar 25, and the Story Behind Luna Land (Berlin)
Garcia, L-M., 26 Nov 2010, Resident Advisor.
Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › Featured article

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