Curriculum Vitae — Luis-Manuel Garcia
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Luis-Manuel Garcia
Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, Max-Planck Institute for Human Development
Research Group: Felt Communities? Emotions in the Musical Life of Europe
Mailing Address:
Dr. Luis-Manuel GARCIA
Max-Planck-Institut für Bildungsforschung
D-14195 BERLIN (Dahlem)
GERMANY
Send message to theluisgarcia at gmail dot com for phone number
Education
- University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
- 2011 Doctor of Philosophy in Music (Ethnomusicology)
- Conferral: August 2011
- Proposal: “ ‘Can You Feel It, Too?’: Intimacy and Affect at Electronic Dance Music Events.”
- Committee: Travis A. Jackson (supervisor), Steven Rings, Lauren Berlant, Kaley Mason.
University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada- 2004 Master of Arts in Music (Musicology)
- Master's Thesis: “The Soft Pink Meaning: A Case Study of Close Reading in Electronic Dance Music.”
- 2002 Bachelor of Music (Music History & Culture)
Scholarly Publications
| 2013 | Guest Editor. “Doing Nightlife and EDMC Fieldwork,” Special Issue. Dancecult: Journal of Electronic Dance Music Culture 5 (1). | |
| 2013 | “Editor's Introduction: Doing Nightlife and EDMC Fieldwork,” in “Doing Nightlife and EDMC Fieldwork,” Special Issue. Dancecult: Journal of Electronic Dance Music Culture 5 (1):3-17. | |
| 2013 | “Crowd Solidarity on the Dancefloor in Paris and Berlin” in Musical Performance and the Changing City: Postindustrial Contexts in Europe and the United States, edited by Carsten Wergin and Fabian Holt, 227-255. (London: Routledge). | |
| 2012 | Intense Encounters: Young Men and Trans-Women in Music Videos, Pop Papers. New York: Feedback Press. | |
| 2012 | “Intense Encounters: Young Men and Trans-Women in Music Videos.” IASPM-US Blog (International Association for the Study of Popular Music, US Chapter) Feb 20–22. 3 parts. Part II; Part III. | |
| 2011 | “Pathological Crowds: Affect and Danger in Responses to the Love Parade Disaster at Duisburg.” Special issue on Germany’s Love Parade, Dancecult: Journal of Electronic Dance Music Culture 2 (1). | |
| 2010 | In The New Grove Dictionary of American Music, 2nd ed. (Oxford: Oxford University Press):
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| 2005 | “On and On: Repetition as Process and Pleasure in Electronic Dance Music.” Music Theory Online 11 (4). |
Translations
| 2013 | Jan-Michael Kühn. “Making A Living In The Berlin House and Techno Scenes.” DJ-Techtools, May 28. Translation from German by Luis-Manuel Garcia. | |
| 2013 | Jan-Michael Kühn. “Focused Ethnography as Research Method: A Case Study of Techno Music Producers in Home-Recording Studios,” in “Doing Nightlife and EDMC Fieldwork,” Special Issue. Dancecult: Journal of Electronic Dance Music Culture 5 (1). Translation from German by Luis-Manuel Garcia. | |
| 2011 | St. John, Graham. “Party, Love and Profit: The Rhythms of the Love Parade (Interview with Wolfgang Sterneck).” Dancecult: Journal of Electronic Dance Music Culture 2 (1). Translation from German by Luis-Manuel Garcia. | |
Reviews
| (forthcoming) | Reason and Resonance: A History of Modern Aurality by Veit Erlmann (Cambridge, MA: Zone Books, 2010). Reviews in Cultural Theory. | |
| 2011 | Rave Culture: The Alteration and Decline of a Philadelphia Music Scene by Tammy L. Anderson (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2009). The Society for American Music Bulletin XXXVII (3). | |
| 2007 | Unplayed Melodies: Javanese Gamelan and the Genesis of Music Theory by Marc Perlman (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2004). Music Theory Spectrum 29.2: 247–253. | |
| 2003 | Music, Body and Desire in Medieval Culture: Hildegard von Bingen to Chaucer by Bruce W. Holsinger (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2001). Discourses in Music 4 (2). | |
Other Publications
| 2013 | “GEMA and the Threat to German Nightlife.” Resident Advisor, May 28, http://www.residentadvisor.net/. | |
| 2012 | “As The World Turns: Time In Electronic Dance Music.” Little White Earbuds, March 28, http://www.littlewhiteearbuds.com/. | |
| 2012 | “Doing Nightlife Research.” IASPM-US Blog (International Association for the Study of Popular Music, US Chapter) Feb 1–3. 3 parts. Part II; Part III. | |
| 2011 | “Clubbing in Chicago.” Resident Advisor, November 15. http://residentadvisor.net/. | |
| 2010 | “Showdown in Spreepark: Minimoo, Bar 25, and the Story Behind Luna Land (Berlin).” Resident Advisor, November 26. http://residentadvisor.net/. |
Invited Presentations
| 2011 | “Doing Fieldwork in Electronic Dance Music and Other Nightlife Music Scenes.” Guest Lecture in Ethnomusicology Seminar, Prof. Kristin McGee, University of Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands, December 9. | |
| 2010 | “Rave comme mouvement sociale; recherches actuelles sur la musique électronique.” Guest Lecture in Music Sociology Seminar, Prof. Jonathan Roberge, Université de Québec à Montréal, Montréal, Canada, November 21. |
Presentations
| 2012 | “Feeling at Home Abroad: The Affective Shape of Expatriate Belonging in the Electronic Dance Music Scenes of Berlin.” Paper read at the meeting of the American Anthropological Association (AAA), San Francisco, California, November 18. | |
| 2012 | “Consuming Atmospheres and Social Worlds: ‘Techno-Tourismus’ and Post-Tourist Tourism in Berlin's Electronic Dance Music Scenes.” Paper read at the meeting of the Society for Ethnomusicology (SEM), New Orleans, Louisiana, November 3. | |
| 2012 | “The Other Side of the Turntables: Revisiting Performer-Audience Interaction at Electronic Dance Music Events.” Paper read at the meeting of the British Forum for Ethnomusicology (BFE), Durham, UK, March 31. | |
| 2012 | “BerMuDa in Berlin: Techno-Tourism, Music Scenes, and the Scale of Nightlife during the Berlin Music Days Weekend.” Paper read at the meeting of the US chapter of the International Association for the Study of Popular Music (IASPM-US), New York, New York, March 24. | |
| 2011 | “Bouncers and Multiculturalism: Unintegrated Difference and the Political Stakes of Nightlife in Berlin and Paris.” Paper read at the meeting of Benelux chapter of the International Association for the Study of Popular Music (IASPM-BENELUX), Groningen, Netherlands, December 9. | |
| 2011 | “Bouncers and Multiculturalism: Unintegrated Difference and the Political Stakes of Nightlife in Berlin and Paris.” Paper read at the meeting of the American Anthropological Association (AAA), Montréal, Canada, November 16. | |
| 2011 | With Gregory C. Mitchell. “Sex on Several Levels: An Affective Mapping of Queer Heterotopias in Rio de Janeiro and Berlin.” Paper read at the meeting of the Cultural Studies Association, Chicago, Illinois, March 26. | |
| 2011 | With Gregory C. Mitchell. “Sex on Several Levels: An Affective Mapping of Queer Heterotopias in Rio de Janeiro and Berlin.” Paper read at the meeting of the Gender and Sexualities Studies Workshop of the University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, March 15. | |
| 2010 | “Bouncers and Multiculturalism: The Political Stakes of Nightlife.” Paper to be read at the meeting of the EthNoise! Workshop of the University of Chicago, December 2. | |
| 2010 | “What Happened to the Sex? Thinking Intimacy and Sexuality in Crowds.” Paper to be read at the meeting of the Gender and Sexualities Studies Workshop of the University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, November 30. | |
| 2010 | “Liquid Solidarities: Vague Belonging at Electronic Dance Music Events in Paris, Chicago, and Berlin.” Paper read at the meeting of the Society for Ethnomusicology (SEM), Los Angeles, California, November 14. (Awarded the Lise Waxer Student Paper Prize by the Popular Music Section of SEM in 2011.) | |
| 2010 | “Homo-something: Men Touching Men and Vague Pleasure in Paris Nightclubs.” Paper read at the Meeting of Performance Studies international (PSi), Toronto, Canada, June 9-13. | |
| 2010 | “Dreams of a Gentle Rebirth: Intense Experience and Coming Undone at EDM events in Paris, Berlin, and Chicago.” Paper read at the Meeting of the US branch of the International Association for the Study of Popular Music (IASPM-US), New Orleans, Louisiana, April 8-11. | |
| 2010 | “Hardening Something: Music, Affect, and the Sense of the Social.” Paper read at the meeting of the New Media Workshop of the University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, April 2. | |
| 2010 | “Homo-Something: Men Touching Men and Vague Pleasure in Paris Nightclubs.” Paper read in the Queer Commodity Cultures Seminar at the Meeting of the Cultural Studies Association (CSA), Berkeley, California, March 18-20. | |
| 2010 | “Smooth Experience, Rough Experience.” Paper read at the joint meeting of the EthNoise!, Theater and Performance Studies, and Gender and Sexualities Workshops of the University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, February 8. | |
| 2008 | “You, Me and Vocoder Makes Three: Distortion and Digital Intimacy.” Paper read at the Meeting of the US branch of the International Association for the Study of Popular Music (IASPM-US), Iowa City, Iowa, April 24-27. | |
| 2007 | “Intimacy at the Sonic Surface.” Paper read at the EthNoise! Workshop of the University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, November 15. | |
| 2006 | “Vazaleen, Affect and Utopia: Sliding Public Spheres into Private Places.” Paper read at the Meeting of the Society for Ethnomusicology (SEM), Honolulu, Hawaii, November 16-19. | |
| 2005 | “The soft pink meaning(s): multiple readings and the Soft Pink Truth.” Paper read at the Meeting of the International Association for the Study of Popular Music (IASPM-Intl), Rome, Italy, July 25-30. | |
| 2004 | “On and On: Repetition as Process and Pleasure in Electronic Dance Music.” Paper read at the Joint Meeting of the Society for Music Theory (SMT) and the American Musicological Society (AMS), Seattle, Washington, November 13. | |
| 2004 | “Dancing with the Wrong Crowd: Identity and Genre Politics among Electronic Dance Musics.” Paper read at the Meeting of the Society for Ethnomusicology (SEM), Tucson, Arizona, November 5. | |
| 2003 | “Future Music: Discourses of Modernism, Futurism and Intellectualism in Techno.” Paper read at the Music Graduate Students' Association Conference, at University of Toronto, Canada, April 12. | |
Honors and Awards
| 2011 | Lise Waxer Student Paper Prize (Popular Music Section), Society for Ethnomusicology (Los Angeles, 2010). | |
| 2011-2012 | Berlin Program for Advanced German and European Studies Freie Universität, Berlin. |
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| 2010-2011 | James C. Hormel Dissertation Fellowship in Lesbian and Gay Studies The Center for Gender Studies, University of Chicago. |
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| 2009 | Whiting Teaching Fellowship, University of Chicago. | |
| 2008–2009 | Assistanceship for Alternative Learning Technologies in Paris University of Chicago, College I.T. and Study Abroad Program. |
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| 2008 | Wadmond Research Fund, University of Chicago. | |
| 2006–2007 | Assistanceship for Alternative Learning Technologies in Paris University of Chicago, College I.T. and Study Abroad Program. |
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| 2006 | Cathy Heifetz Memorial Award, University of Chicago. | |
| 2004–2009 | Five-year Century Fellowship, University of Chicago. | |
| 2003–2004 | Ontario Graduate Scholarship, Ontario Ministry of Training. | |
| 2003–2004 | Canada Graduate Scholarship, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, Canada. | |
| 2003–2004 | Gordon Cressey Student Leadership Award, University of Toronto. | |
| 2002–2003 | Tuition waiver and internal graduate fellowship. |
Employment
- Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany
- 2013 Postdoctoral Research Fellow
- Research Group: “Felt Communities? Emotions in the Musical Life of Europe”
- Freie Universität, Berlin, Germany
- 2011–2012 Postdoctoral Research Fellow
- Berlin Program for Advanced German and European Studies
- Project: Ethnographic fieldwork for “The Techno Jetset: Mobility, Tourism, and Class in Berlin’s Electronic Dance Music Scenes”
- University of Chicago, Department of Music, Chicago, Illinois
- 2009–2010 Lecturer
- “Nightlives: Music and Nighttime” (MUSI 23910), a self-designed course funded by the Whiting Teaching Fellowship
- “Music in Western Civilization I” (MUSI 121)
Ecole nationale des chartes, Paris, France- 2008–2009 Enseignant de langue (Language Instructor)
- Taught advanced English to undergraduate and graduate students, with an emphasis on academic speaking and writing
University of Chicago, Department of Music, Chicago, Illinois- 2008 Lecturer
- Co-Lecturer, MA-level “Theories of Gender and Sexuality” (GNDR 314) with Lauren Berlant
- “Music in Western Civilization I & II” (MUSI 121-2)
- “Introduction to World Music” (MUSI 102)
- 2008 Course Assistant
- Assisted Prof. Travis Jackson with “Introduction to World Music”
University of Toronto, Department of Music, Toronto, Ontario, Canada- 2002–2004 Teaching Assistant
Professional Development
| 2011 | SEM-NEH Summer Institute, “Ethnomusicology and Global Culture”, June 20–July 1.
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Professional Activities and Service
| 2012–Present | Foreign Languages Editor. Dancecult: Journal of Electronic Dance Music Culture. | |
| 2012 | Session Chair and Organizer. “Emergent Forms of Music Tourism, I: Music Tourism in the Aftermath of Rupture in New Orleans, Berlin, Bali.” Society for Ethnomusicology (SEM), New Orleans, November 3. | |
| 2012 | Session Organizer. “Emergent Forms of Music Tourism, II: Multimedia, Spectacles and Memorials.” Society for Ethnomusicology (SEM), New Orleans, November 3. | |
| 2010–2011 | Production Assistant and Reader. Dancecult: Journal of Electronic Dance Music Culture. | |
| 2006–2011 | Founding Member and Co-Coordinator. Affective Publics Workshop, University of Chicago. | |
| 2010–2011 | Program Committee. For the 2011 Meeting of the US chapter of the International Association for the Study of Popular Music (IASPM-US), Cincinnati, Ohio. | |
| 2010 | Session Chair. “Scenes and Communities.” US Branch of the International Association for the Study of Popular Music (IASPM-US), New Orleans, Louisiana, April 10. | |
| 2010 | Session Chair. “The Aesthetic Edge.” US Branch of the International Association for the Study of Popular Music, New Orleans, Louisiana, April 9. | |
| 2007–2009 | Student Seat Officer. International Association for the Study of Popular Music (IASPM-US). | |
| 2007–2008 | President. Graduate Music Society, University of Chicago. | |
| 2003–2004 | Co-President. Music Graduate Students Association, University of Toronto. | |
| 2003–2004 | Search Committee. Dean of the Faculty of Music, University of Toronto. | |
| 2002–2003 | Representative (Music). Graduate Student Union, University of Toronto. | |
| 2001-2002 | Search Committee. Ethnomusicology, Faculty of Music, University of Toronto. |
Performance/Creative Activities
| 2012–Present | La Mission artists' collective and record label, co-founder, performer, and essayist. | |
| 2005–2007 | Georgian Vocal Ensemble, founder and director. | |
| 2004–2006 | Early Music Ensemble, vocalist. | |
Memberships
American Musicological Society
Cultural Studies Association
International Association for the Study of Popular Music
PSi (Performance Studies International)
Society for American Music
Society for Ethnomusicology
Society for Music Theory
Courses Taught
Nightlives: Music and Nighttime
Introduction to World Music
Music in Western Civilization, I & II
Theories of Sex and Gender (Graduate level, co-taught with Lauren Berlant)
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