Luis Manuel Garcia-Mispireta is an Associate Professor in Ethnomusicology and Popular Music Studies at the University of Birmingham (UK). His research focuses on urban electronic dance music scenes, with a particular focus on affect, intimacy, stranger-sociability, embodiment, sexuality, creative industries and musical migration. He is a member and resident DJ of Berlin’s queer intersectional rave collective, ‘Room 4 Resistance’. Garcia-Mispireta is currently developing a project on “grassroots” activism and queer nightlife collectives; he also has a new monograph out, entitled /Together Somehow: Music, Affect, and Intimacy on the Dancefloor/ (Duke University Press, 2023).