“Together, Somehow takes readers past the velvet rope and onto the dancefloors, into the backrooms and bathrooms, and up to the DJ booths at legendary clubs like Berghain and one-off raves in the Midwest. It is one of those joyous books where passion meets erudition on every page, presenting a compelling portrait of the contemporary electronic dance music scene. Giving us in many ways the prehistory of the racial and gender reckoning that nightlife is going through right now, Together, Somehow will stand as one of the essential works on EDM.”—Tavia Nyong’o, author of, Afro-Fabulations: The Queer Drama of Black Life

“Luis Manuel Garcia-Mispireta serves us a much-anticipated, technicolor musicological response to the enveloping, multisensory experiences on the dancefloor that queer studies and performance theorists of color have dominated in analysis for quite some time. From start to finish, Garcia-Mispireta gives us rigorous analysis we can feel in the oft-neglected research on the dynamics of affective connection among electronic dance music enthusiasts both as everyday listeners and music researchers. Undoubtedly, readers will find themselves reclaiming previously contested sonic world utopias.”—Alisha Lola Jones, author of, Flaming?: The Peculiar Theopolitics of Fire and Desire in Black Male Gospel Performance

 "An essential contribution to a limited yet gradually expanding body of ethnomusicological scholarship on electronic dance music cultures. . . . This book offers a novel contribution to ethnomusicological scholarship and will surely lend itself as an important resource for scholars and other readers interested in the global phenomenon of electronic dance music culture or studies on music and affect more generally."—Rory Fewer, Dancecult

"Garcia-Mispireta’s book, with its methodological fusion of ethnomusicology, working along with affective theory, sound and queer studies, and promoting a new area of research — a dance floor, which proves to be an important site to diagnose social life — makes a significant contribution to contemporary dance studies and performance studies."—Agata Chalupnik, European Journal of Theatre and Performance

"Brilliant. . . . Together, Somehow allows dancefloors to be as they are: flawed but aspirational spaces that connect and disconnect, that both create and dissolve community, and that exclude as much as they include. All these elements coexist to make the clubbing experience happen."—Luiz Romero, Hinterhaus