From g.stjohn at warpmail.net  Sat Oct  3 07:08:58 2009
From: g.stjohn at warpmail.net (Graham St John)
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 2009 22:08:58 -0700
Subject: [Dancecult-l] Shima and Ibiza/Balearic dance scene
Message-ID: <p06240844c6ec8cb43229@[192.168.1.104]>


 From Phil Hayward

'Shima: The International Journal of Research Into Island Culture' 
would be interested to publish material on the Ibiza/Balearic dance 
music scene and any aspect of its relation to locality

see <www.shimajournal.org/>

editor - Philip Hayward <prhsicri at gmail.com>


From theluisgarcia at gmail.com  Thu Oct 15 21:48:56 2009
From: theluisgarcia at gmail.com (Luis-Manuel Garcia)
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2009 14:48:56 -0500
Subject: [Dancecult-l] Affect-laden query
Message-ID: <bb6dc5780910151248h3d3b1d7dqffeca538e87ba3bb@mail.gmail.com>

Hi all,

I haven't posted to Dancecult-L in a long time, so I ought to reintroduce
myself. I'm an ethnomusicology student at the University of Chicago,
studying intimacy in crowds at EDM events?or, to be more precise, the
emergence of a sense of intimacy among strangers and acquaintances at EDM
events in Chicago, Paris and Berlin. I recently wrapped up the major portion
of my fieldwork and I've more or less moved to the writing phase, producing
chapters on tactile/spatial metaphors of intimacy and on (the question of)
solidarity in crowds. I'm preparing to work out my next chapter, which will
focus more keenly on issues of affect (understood in the
Spinozan-Bergsonian-Deleuzian sense) and sensory experience in/of EDM as it
pertains to a sense of togetherness.

In that vein, I thought I would poll the list on recent and/or important
readings on affect and experience, especially about music in general or EDM
in particular. Here is a selective bibliography of sources that I am already
consulting:

Berlant, Lauren. 2008. *The female complaint : the unfinished business of
sentimentality in American culture*. Durham: Duke University Press.
(especially for her concept of "intimate publics" in the introduction)

Buchanan, Ian, and Marcel Swiboda. 2004. *Deleuze and music*. Edinburgh:
Edinburgh University Press.

Campbell, John R., and Alan Rew. 1999.* Identity and affect : experinces of
identity in a globalising world*. London ; Sterling, Va.: Pluto Press.

Feld, Steven. 1982. *Sound and sentiment : birds, weeping, poetics, and song
in Kaluli expression*. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.
Feld, Steven. 1995. Wept Thoughts : the voicing of Kaluli memories.
In*South Pacific oral traditions
*, edited by R. H. Finnegan and M. R. Orbell. Bloomington, IN: Indiana
University Press.
(the latter article is particularly useful for its elaboration of a concept
of emotion/affect as intellect/thought and, in particular, weeping as a mode
gathering one's thoughts rather than catharsis)

Lingis, Alphonso. 1994. *Foreign Bodies*. New York ; London: Routledge.

Massumi, Brian. 2002. *Parables for the virtual : movement, affect,
sensation*, Post-contemporary interventions. Durham, NC: Duke University
Press.

Sedgwick, Eve Kosofsky. 2003.* Touching feeling : affect, pedagogy,
performativity,* Series Q. Durham: Duke University Press.

Seigworth, Gregory J. 2005. From affection to soul. In *Gilles Deleuze : Key
Concepts*, edited by C. J. Stivale. Montreal; Kingston; Ithaca:
McGill-Queen's University Press.

Stewart, Kathleen. 2007. *Ordinary Affects*. Durham, NC: Duke University
Press. (one of my favourites and only 100+ pages)

Terada, Rei. 2001. *Feeling in theory : emotion after the "death of the
subject"*. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press.

===============

Many thanks to everyone on the list for their scholarly generosity and
support in the past and in the future. If anybody is working on similar
projects, I'd be delighted to hear from you.

cheers,

Luis-Manuel Garcia
PhD Candidate, Ethnomusicology
University of Chicago
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From tutenges at hotmail.com  Fri Oct 16 13:18:46 2009
From: tutenges at hotmail.com (Sebastien Tutenges)
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2009 13:18:46 +0200
Subject: [Dancecult-l] Affect-laden query
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Dear Luis-Manuel Garcia,

 

I am working on a PhD dissertation about nightlife tourism with a focus on young tourists at the Bulgarian nightlife resort, Sunny Beach.

 

Crowd ecstasy is obviously an important aspect of this kind of holidaymaking, and I have found it useful to read some of the classical European debates about crowds from the end of the nineteenth and early twentieth century. Particularly the works of Gabriel Tarde, Gustave Le Bon, Emile Durkheim and the more recent Elias Canetti are useful. They give us rather sophisticated interpretations of emotional contagion, crowd (de)control, heightened intersubjectivity and much more. If such issues are of interest to you, perhaps the following texts are worth a close look:

 

Barrows, s (1981) Distorting Mirrors: Visions of the Crowd in Late Nineteenth-Century France. New Haven, CT and London: Yale University Press.
Borch, C. (2006) ?The Exclusion of the Crowd: The Destiny of a Sociological Figure of the Irrational?, European Journal of Social Theory 9(1), 83?102.
Canetti, E (1984) Crowds and Power, New York: Farrar Straus Giroux. [First published in 1960].

Brennan, T. (2004). The Transmission of Affect. New York: Cornell University Press

Durkheim, ?. (2001) The Elementary Forms of Religious Life Oxford: Oxford University Press. [First published in 1912].

Le Bon, G. (1960) The crowd, New York: Viking Press [First published 1895].

Tarde G. (2007) L'opinion et la foule. Editions du Sandre, after the edition F. Alcan 1901.
Thrift, N (2007) ?Turbulens passions: Towards an understanding of the affective spaces of political performance?, pp. 220-254 in Non-Representational Theory: Space, politics, affect. London and New York: Routledge.
 

In a couple of month, I hope to submit an article (heavily inspired by Michel Maffesoli and Christian Borch) with the title "Ecstatic Young Crowds: A case study of pub crawls at an international nightlife resort"  


Kind regards,

S?bastien Tutenges

PhD student
Centre for Alcohol and Drug Research
Artillerivej 90, 2. sal.
2300 K?benhavn S
http://person.au.dk/stu at crf

 

 

 

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> Hi all,
> 
> I haven't posted to Dancecult-L in a long time, so I ought to reintroduce
> myself. I'm an ethnomusicology student at the University of Chicago,
> studying intimacy in crowds at EDM events?or, to be more precise, the
> emergence of a sense of intimacy among strangers and acquaintances at EDM
> events in Chicago, Paris and Berlin. I recently wrapped up the major portion
> of my fieldwork and I've more or less moved to the writing phase, producing
> chapters on tactile/spatial metaphors of intimacy and on (the question of)
> solidarity in crowds. I'm preparing to work out my next chapter, which will
> focus more keenly on issues of affect (understood in the
> Spinozan-Bergsonian-Deleuzian sense) and sensory experience in/of EDM as it
> pertains to a sense of togetherness.
> 
> In that vein, I thought I would poll the list on recent and/or important
> readings on affect and experience, especially about music in general or EDM
> in particular. Here is a selective bibliography of sources that I am already
> consulting:
> 
> Berlant, Lauren. 2008. *The female complaint : the unfinished business of
> sentimentality in American culture*. Durham: Duke University Press.
> (especially for her concept of "intimate publics" in the introduction)
> 
> Buchanan, Ian, and Marcel Swiboda. 2004. *Deleuze and music*. Edinburgh:
> Edinburgh University Press.
> 
> Campbell, John R., and Alan Rew. 1999.* Identity and affect : experinces of
> identity in a globalising world*. London ; Sterling, Va.: Pluto Press.
> 
> Feld, Steven. 1982. *Sound and sentiment : birds, weeping, poetics, and song
> in Kaluli expression*. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.
> Feld, Steven. 1995. Wept Thoughts : the voicing of Kaluli memories.
> In*South Pacific oral traditions
> *, edited by R. H. Finnegan and M. R. Orbell. Bloomington, IN: Indiana
> University Press.
> (the latter article is particularly useful for its elaboration of a concept
> of emotion/affect as intellect/thought and, in particular, weeping as a mode
> gathering one's thoughts rather than catharsis)
> 
> Lingis, Alphonso. 1994. *Foreign Bodies*. New York ; London: Routledge.
> 
> Massumi, Brian. 2002. *Parables for the virtual : movement, affect,
> sensation*, Post-contemporary interventions. Durham, NC: Duke University
> Press.
> 
> Sedgwick, Eve Kosofsky. 2003.* Touching feeling : affect, pedagogy,
> performativity,* Series Q. Durham: Duke University Press.
> 
> Seigworth, Gregory J. 2005. From affection to soul. In *Gilles Deleuze : Key
> Concepts*, edited by C. J. Stivale. Montreal; Kingston; Ithaca:
> McGill-Queen's University Press.
> 
> Stewart, Kathleen. 2007. *Ordinary Affects*. Durham, NC: Duke University
> Press. (one of my favourites and only 100+ pages)
> 
> Terada, Rei. 2001. *Feeling in theory : emotion after the "death of the
> subject"*. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press.
> 
> ===============
> 
> Many thanks to everyone on the list for their scholarly generosity and
> support in the past and in the future. If anybody is working on similar
> projects, I'd be delighted to hear from you.
> 
> cheers,
> 
> Luis-Manuel Garcia
> PhD Candidate, Ethnomusicology
> University of Chicago
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From Hillegonda at zoo.co.uk  Fri Oct 16 19:52:35 2009
From: Hillegonda at zoo.co.uk (Hillegonda)
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2009 18:52:35 +0100
Subject: [Dancecult-l] Affect-laden query
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Hi,

What a great topic! Perhaps the following collections could also be helpful:

M. Graco and P.Stenner (Ed)(2008) /Emotions: A Social Science Reader/. 
Routledge.
J. Harding and ED Pribram (Eds) (2009) /Emotions: A Cultural Studies 
Reader/. Routledge

Gonnie



Luis-Manuel Garcia wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I haven't posted to Dancecult-L in a long time, so I ought to 
> reintroduce myself. I'm an ethnomusicology student at the University 
> of Chicago, studying intimacy in crowds at EDM events?or, to be more 
> precise, the emergence of a sense of intimacy among strangers and 
> acquaintances at EDM events in Chicago, Paris and Berlin. I recently 
> wrapped up the major portion of my fieldwork and I've more or less 
> moved to the writing phase, producing chapters on tactile/spatial 
> metaphors of intimacy and on (the question of) solidarity in crowds. 
> I'm preparing to work out my next chapter, which will focus more 
> keenly on issues of affect (understood in the 
> Spinozan-Bergsonian-Deleuzian sense) and sensory experience in/of EDM 
> as it pertains to a sense of togetherness.
>
> In that vein, I thought I would poll the list on recent and/or 
> important readings on affect and experience, especially about music in 
> general or EDM in particular. Here is a selective bibliography of 
> sources that I am already consulting:
>
> Berlant, Lauren. 2008. /The female complaint : the unfinished business 
> of sentimentality in American culture/. Durham: Duke University Press.
> (especially for her concept of "intimate publics" in the introduction)
>
> Buchanan, Ian, and Marcel Swiboda. 2004. /Deleuze and music/. 
> Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.
>
> Campbell, John R., and Alan Rew. 1999./ Identity and affect : 
> experinces of identity in a globalising world/. London ; Sterling, 
> Va.: Pluto Press.
>
> Feld, Steven. 1982. /Sound and sentiment : birds, weeping, poetics, 
> and song in Kaluli expression/. Philadelphia: University of 
> Pennsylvania Press.
> Feld, Steven. 1995. Wept Thoughts : the voicing of Kaluli memories. 
> In/ South Pacific oral traditions/, edited by R. H. Finnegan and M. R. 
> Orbell. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press.
> (the latter article is particularly useful for its elaboration of a 
> concept of emotion/affect as intellect/thought and, in particular, 
> weeping as a mode gathering one's thoughts rather than catharsis)
>
> Lingis, Alphonso. 1994. /Foreign Bodies/. New York ; London: Routledge.
>
> Massumi, Brian. 2002. /Parables for the virtual : movement, affect, 
> sensation/, Post-contemporary interventions. Durham, NC: Duke 
> University Press.
>
> Sedgwick, Eve Kosofsky. 2003./ Touching feeling : affect, pedagogy, 
> performativity,/ Series Q. Durham: Duke University Press.
>
> Seigworth, Gregory J. 2005. From affection to soul. In /Gilles Deleuze 
> : Key Concepts/, edited by C. J. Stivale. Montreal; Kingston; Ithaca: 
> McGill-Queen's University Press.
>
> Stewart, Kathleen. 2007. /Ordinary Affects/. Durham, NC: Duke 
> University Press. (one of my favourites and only 100+ pages)
>
> Terada, Rei. 2001. /Feeling in theory : emotion after the "death of 
> the subject"/. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press.
>
> ===============
>
> Many thanks to everyone on the list for their scholarly generosity and 
> support in the past and in the future. If anybody is working on 
> similar projects, I'd be delighted to hear from you.
>
> cheers,
>
> Luis-Manuel Garcia
> PhD Candidate, Ethnomusicology
> University of Chicago
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
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From theluisgarcia at gmail.com  Fri Oct 16 20:21:26 2009
From: theluisgarcia at gmail.com (Luis-Manuel Garcia)
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2009 13:21:26 -0500
Subject: [Dancecult-l] Affect-laden query
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Dear S?bastien and Gonnie,

Thanks to both of you for your suggestions. I'm familiar with the
Tarde/LeBon readings and the Canetti's work, but I wasn't acquainted with
the secondary crowd literature that you cited. I've found LeBon and Tarde
give only limited purchase on my topic, since the archive they analyze for
crowd excitement is rather different from nightclub crowds in several ways.
Nonetheless, Tarde's notion of mimesis as the basis of affective
transitivity is particularly useful for an accounting of the distribution of
musical affect, especially when brought into dialogue with Brennan's more
olfactory/atmospheric model. For your project, I'd also suggest in addition
to Berlant's /The Female Complaint/ perhaps Michael Warner's /Publics and
Counterpublics/ (which I think has appeared as an essay) as well as the
Berlant/Warner essay "Sex in Public" (which is a both misleading and honest
title) in /Critical Inquiry/ 24 (1998).

merci / dank je wel,

Luis-Manuel Garcia
PhD Candidate, Ethnomusicology
University of Chicago

On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 6:18 AM, Sebastien Tutenges <tutenges at hotmail.com>wrote:

>  Dear Luis-Manuel Garcia,
>
> I am working on a PhD dissertation about nightlife tourism with a focus on
> young tourists at the Bulgarian nightlife resort, Sunny Beach.
>
> Crowd ecstasy is obviously an important aspect of this kind of
> holidaymaking, and I have found it useful to read some of the classical
> European debates about crowds from the end of the nineteenth and early
> twentieth century. Particularly the works of Gabriel Tarde, Gustave Le Bon,
> Emile Durkheim and the more recent Elias Canetti are useful. They give us
> rather sophisticated interpretations of emotional contagion, crowd
> (de)control, heightened intersubjectivity and much more. If such issues are
> of interest to you, perhaps the following texts are worth a close look:
>
>
> Barrows, s (1981) Distorting Mirrors: Visions of the Crowd in Late
> Nineteenth-Century France. New Haven, CT and London: Yale University
> Press.
>
> Borch, C. (2006) ?The Exclusion of the Crowd: The Destiny of a Sociological
> Figure of the Irrational?, *European Journal of Social Theory* 9(1),
> 83?102.
> Canetti, E (1984) *Crowds and Power*, New York: Farrar Straus Giroux.
> [First published in 1960].
> Brennan, T. (2004). The Transmission of Affect. New York: Cornell
> University Press
> Durkheim, ?. (2001) *The Elementary Forms of Religious Life* Oxford:
> Oxford University Press. [First published in 1912].
> Le Bon, G. (1960) *The crowd,* New York: Viking Press [First published
> 1895].
>
> Tarde G. (2007) L'opinion et la foule. Editions du Sandre, after the
> edition F. Alcan 1901.
>
> Thrift, N (2007) ?Turbulens passions: Towards an understanding of the
> affective spaces of political performance?, pp. 220-254 in
> Non-Representational Theory: Space, politics, affect. London and New York:
> Routledge.
>
> In a couple of month, I hope to submit an article (heavily inspired by
> Michel Maffesoli and Christian Borch) with the title "*Ecstatic Young
> Crowds*: *A case study of pub crawls at an international nightlife
> resort" *
>
> Kind regards,
> S?bastien Tutenges
>
> PhD student
> Centre for Alcohol and Drug Research
> Artillerivej 90, 2. sal.
> 2300 K?benhavn S
> http://person.au.dk/stu at crf
>
>
>
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> >
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I haven't posted to Dancecult-L in a long time, so I ought to reintroduce
> > myself. I'm an ethnomusicology student at the University of Chicago,
> > studying intimacy in crowds at EDM events?or, to be more precise, the
> > emergence of a sense of intimacy among strangers and acquaintances at EDM
> > events in Chicago, Paris and Berlin. I recently wrapped up the major
> portion
> > of my fieldwork and I've more or less moved to the writing phase,
> producing
> > chapters on tactile/spatial metaphors of intimacy and on (the question
> of)
> > solidarity in crowds. I'm preparing to work out my next chapter, which
> will
> > focus more keenly on issues of affect (understood in the
> > Spinozan-Bergsonian-Deleuzian sense) and sensory experience in/of EDM as
> it
> > pertains to a sense of togetherness.
> >
> > In that vein, I thought I would poll the list on recent and/or important
> > readings on affect and experience, especially about music in general or
> EDM
> > in particular. Here is a selective bibliography of sources that I am
> already
> > consulting:
> >
> > Berlant, Lauren. 2008. *The female complaint : the unfinished business of
> > sentimentality in American culture*. Durham: Duke University Press.
> > (especially for her concept of "intimate publics" in the introduction)
> >
> > Buchanan, Ian, and Marcel Swiboda. 2004. *Deleuze and music*. Edinburgh:
> > Edinburgh University Press.
> >
> > Campbell, John R., and Alan Rew. 1999.* Identity and affect : experinces
> of
> > identity in a globalising world*. London ; Sterling, Va.: Pluto Press.
> >
> > Feld, Steven. 1982. *Sound and sentiment : birds, weeping, poetics, and
> song
> > in Kaluli expression*. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.
> > Feld, Steven. 1995. Wept Thoughts : the voicing of Kaluli memories.
> > In*South Pacific oral traditions
> > *, edited by R. H. Finnegan and M. R. Orbell. Bloomington, IN: Indiana
> > University Press.
> > (the latter article is particularly useful for its elaboration of a
> concept
> > of emotion/affect as intellect/thought and, in particular, weeping as a
> mode
> > gathering one's thoughts rather than catharsis)
> >
> > Lingis, Alphonso. 1994. *Foreign Bodies*. New York ; London: Routledge.
> >
> > Massumi, Brian. 2002. *Parables for the virtual : movement, affect,
> > sensation*, Post-contemporary interventions. Durham, NC: Duke University
> > Press.
> >
> > Sedgwick, Eve Kosofsky. 2003.* Touching feeling : affect, pedagogy,
> > performativity,* Series Q. Durham: Duke University Press.
> >
> > Seigworth, Gregory J. 2005. From affection to soul. In *Gilles Deleuze :
> Key
> > Concepts*, edited by C. J. Stivale. Montreal; Kingston; Ithaca:
> > McGill-Queen's University Press.
> >
> > Stewart, Kathleen. 2007. *Ordinary Affects*. Durham, NC: Duke University
> > Press. (one of my favourites and only 100+ pages)
> >
> > Terada, Rei. 2001. *Feeling in theory : emotion after the "death of the
> > subject"*. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press.
> >
> > ===============
> >
> > Many thanks to everyone on the list for their scholarly generosity and
> > support in the past and in the future. If anybody is working on similar
> > projects, I'd be delighted to hear from you.
> >
> > cheers,
> >
> > Luis-Manuel Garcia
> > PhD Candidate, Ethnomusicology
> > University of Chicago
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From: g.stjohn at warpmail.net (Graham St John)
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2009 14:58:46 -0700
Subject: [Dancecult-l] Affect-laden query
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This is an interesting research topic, and one 
that has proven very difficult to conduct -  one 
reason I suspect is the requirement to combine a 
disciplined distance with full immersion. I 
suspect that many researchers have gone into the 
clubbing crowd, or on to the dance floor, never 
to be seen again...

On this theme, I would also recommend consulting:

Jackson, Phil. 2004. Inside Clubbing: Sensual 
Experiments in the Art of Being Human. Oxford: 
Berg.

for a revisioning of Bourdieu's "habitus" in the 
exploration of the social eros of clubbing in 
London.

Im doubtful of its success, but Laughey attempts 
to deal with the complexity of clubbing crowds in 
his

Laughey, Dan. 2006. Music and Youth Culture. 
Edinburgh University Press: Edinburgh.

Personally i doubt any good study of EDM crowds 
could avoid running into the study of the 
carnivalesque (Bakhtin) nor some of Bataille's 
indulgences on sacrifice/consumption as rendered, 
for instance in the work of Fran?ois Gauthier (i 
think theres some refs at
http://www.dancecult.net/bibliography.php)

Graham




At 1:21 PM -0500 10/16/09, Luis-Manuel Garcia wrote:
>Dear S?bastien and Gonnie,
>
>Thanks to both of you for your suggestions. I'm 
>familiar with the Tarde/LeBon readings and the 
>Canetti's work, but I wasn't acquainted with the 
>secondary crowd literature that you cited. I've 
>found LeBon and Tarde give only limited purchase 
>on my topic, since the archive they analyze for 
>crowd excitement is rather different from 
>nightclub crowds in several ways. Nonetheless, 
>Tarde's notion of mimesis as the basis of 
>affective transitivity is particularly useful 
>for an accounting of the distribution of musical 
>affect, especially when brought into dialogue 
>with Brennan's more olfactory/atmospheric model. 
>For your project, I'd also suggest in addition 
>to Berlant's /The Female Complaint/ perhaps 
>Michael Warner's /Publics and Counterpublics/ 
>(which I think has appeared as an essay) as well 
>as the Berlant/Warner essay "Sex in Public" 
>(which is a both misleading and honest title) in 
>/Critical Inquiry/ 24 (1998).
>
>merci / dank je wel,
>
>Luis-Manuel Garcia
>PhD Candidate, Ethnomusicology
>University of Chicago
>
>On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 6:18 AM, Sebastien 
>Tutenges 
><<mailto:tutenges at hotmail.com>tutenges at hotmail.com> 
>wrote:
>
>Dear Luis-Manuel Garcia,
>
>I am working on a PhD dissertation about 
>nightlife tourism with a focus on young tourists 
>at the Bulgarian nightlife resort, Sunny Beach.
>
>Crowd ecstasy is obviously an important aspect 
>of this kind of holidaymaking, and I have found 
>it useful to read some of the classical European 
>debates about crowds from the end of the 
>nineteenth and early twentieth century. 
>Particularly the works of Gabriel Tarde, Gustave 
>Le Bon, Emile Durkheim and the more recent Elias 
>Canetti are useful. They give us rather 
>sophisticated interpretations of emotional 
>contagion, crowd (de)control, heightened 
>intersubjectivity and much more. If such issues 
>are of interest to you, perhaps the following 
>texts are worth a close look:
>
>Barrows, s (1981) Distorting Mirrors: Visions of 
>the Crowd in Late Nineteenth-Century France. New 
>Haven, CT and London: Yale University Press.
>
>Borch, C. (2006) 'The Exclusion of the Crowd: 
>The Destiny of a Sociological Figure of the 
>Irrational', European Journal of Social Theory 
>9(1), 83-102.
>
>Canetti, E (1984) Crowds and Power, New York: 
>Farrar Straus Giroux. [First published in 1960].
>Brennan, T. (2004). The Transmission of Affect. 
>New York: Cornell University Press
>Durkheim, ?. (2001) The Elementary Forms of 
>Religious Life Oxford: Oxford University Press. 
>[First published in 1912].
>Le Bon, G. (1960) The crowd, New York: Viking Press [First published 1895].
>
>Tarde G. (2007) L'opinion et la foule. Editions 
>du Sandre, after the edition F. Alcan 1901.
>
>Thrift, N (2007) "Turbulens passions: Towards an 
>understanding of the affective spaces of 
>political performance", pp. 220-254 in 
>Non-Representational Theory: Space, politics, 
>affect. London and New York: Routledge.
>
>
>In a couple of month, I hope to submit an 
>article (heavily inspired by Michel Maffesoli 
>and Christian Borch) with the title "Ecstatic 
>Young Crowds: A case study of pub crawls at an 
>international nightlife resort"
>
>Kind regards,
>S?bastien Tutenges
>
>PhD student
>Centre for Alcohol and Drug Research
>Artillerivej 90, 2. sal.
>2300 K?benhavn S
><http://person.au.dk/stu at crf>http://person.au.dk/stu at crf
>
>
>
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>>  Hi all,
>>
>>  I haven't posted to Dancecult-L in a long time, so I ought to reintroduce
>>  myself. I'm an ethnomusicology student at the University of Chicago,
>>  studying intimacy in crowds at EDM events?or, to be more precise, the
>>  emergence of a sense of intimacy among strangers and acquaintances at EDM
>>  events in Chicago, Paris and Berlin. I recently wrapped up the major portion
>>  of my fieldwork and I've more or less moved to the writing phase, producing
>>  chapters on tactile/spatial metaphors of intimacy and on (the question of)
>>  solidarity in crowds. I'm preparing to work out my next chapter, which will
>>  focus more keenly on issues of affect (understood in the
>>  Spinozan-Bergsonian-Deleuzian sense) and sensory experience in/of EDM as it
>>  pertains to a sense of togetherness.
>>
>>  In that vein, I thought I would poll the list on recent and/or important
>>  readings on affect and experience, especially about music in general or EDM
>>  in particular. Here is a selective bibliography of sources that I am already
>>  consulting:
>>
>>  Berlant, Lauren. 2008. *The female complaint : the unfinished business of
>>  sentimentality in American culture*. Durham: Duke University Press.
>>  (especially for her concept of "intimate publics" in the introduction)
>>
>>  Buchanan, Ian, and Marcel Swiboda. 2004. *Deleuze and music*. Edinburgh:
>>  Edinburgh University Press.
>>
>>  Campbell, John R., and Alan Rew. 1999.* Identity and affect : experinces of
>>  identity in a globalising world*. London ; Sterling, Va.: Pluto Press.
>>
>>  Feld, Steven. 1982. *Sound and sentiment : birds, weeping, poetics, and song
>>  in Kaluli expression*. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.
>>  Feld, Steven. 1995. Wept Thoughts : the voicing of Kaluli memories.
>>  In*South Pacific oral traditions
>>  *, edited by R. H. Finnegan and M. R. Orbell. Bloomington, IN: Indiana
>>  University Press.
>>  (the latter article is particularly useful for its elaboration of a concept
>>  of emotion/affect as intellect/thought and, in particular, weeping as a mode
>>  gathering one's thoughts rather than catharsis)
>>
>>  Lingis, Alphonso. 1994. *Foreign Bodies*. New York ; London: Routledge.
>  >
>>  Massumi, Brian. 2002. *Parables for the virtual : movement, affect,
>>  sensation*, Post-contemporary interventions. Durham, NC: Duke University
>>  Press.
>>
>>  Sedgwick, Eve Kosofsky. 2003.* Touching feeling : affect, pedagogy,
>>  performativity,* Series Q. Durham: Duke University Press.
>>
>>  Seigworth, Gregory J. 2005. From affection to soul. In *Gilles Deleuze : Key
>>  Concepts*, edited by C. J. Stivale. Montreal; Kingston; Ithaca:
>>  McGill-Queen's University Press.
>>
>>  Stewart, Kathleen. 2007. *Ordinary Affects*. Durham, NC: Duke University
>>  Press. (one of my favourites and only 100+ pages)
>>
>>  Terada, Rei. 2001. *Feeling in theory : emotion after the "death of the
>>  subject"*. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press.
>>
>>  ===============
>>
>>  Many thanks to everyone on the list for their scholarly generosity and
>>  support in the past and in the future. If anybody is working on similar
>>  projects, I'd be delighted to hear from you.
>>
>>  cheers,
>>
>>  Luis-Manuel Garcia
>>  PhD Candidate, Ethnomusicology
>>  University of Chicago
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From alasen at cps.ucm.es  Sun Oct 18 11:07:38 2009
From: alasen at cps.ucm.es (MARIA AMPARO LASEN DIAZ)
Date: Sun, 18 Oct 2009 11:07:38 +0200
Subject: [Dancecult-l] Affect-laden query
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Dear Luis-Manuel,

I agree with Gonnie, that's a great topic. And as your focus is on intimacy, instead of collective effervescence or excitement, I think you can go beyond the usual studies drawing on Bakhtin, Bataille or Maffesoli (not that there is something wrong with them). I'm really looking forward to reading your work.?

I'm currently working on the same topic, intimacy among strangers, but in a different context, regarding technologically mediated interactions and communication, and the changes regarding privacy and intimacy, and my guess is that we can find a kind of modulation of intimacy where new categories arise besides those of strangers, acquaintances and loved or familiar ones.

I thank you and Sebastien for your references, as they are going to be useful for my work too. Regarding emotions I think that the views of Belge ethnopsychologist Vinciane Despret are really interesting and helpful.?

Despret, Vinciane 2004?Emotional Makeup. Ethnopsychology and Selfhood. New York: Other Press.

Cheers

Amparo Las?n

----- Mensaje original -----
De: Luis-Manuel Garcia <theluisgarcia at gmail.com>
Fecha: Jueves, Octubre 15, 2009 21:50
Asunto: [Dancecult-l] Affect-laden query
A: Dancecult <Dancecult-l at listcultures.org>

> Hi all,
> 
> I haven't posted to Dancecult-L in a long time, so I ought to 
> reintroducemyself. I'm an ethnomusicology student at the 
> University of Chicago,
> studying intimacy in crowds at EDM events?or, to be more 
> precise, the
> emergence of a sense of intimacy among strangers and 
> acquaintances at EDM
> events in Chicago, Paris and Berlin. I recently wrapped up the 
> major portion
> of my fieldwork and I've more or less moved to the writing 
> phase, producing
> chapters on tactile/spatial metaphors of intimacy and on (the 
> question of)
> solidarity in crowds. I'm preparing to work out my next chapter, 
> which will
> focus more keenly on issues of affect (understood in the
> Spinozan-Bergsonian-Deleuzian sense) and sensory experience 
> in/of EDM as it
> pertains to a sense of togetherness.
> 
> In that vein, I thought I would poll the list on recent and/or 
> importantreadings on affect and experience, especially about 
> music in general or EDM
> in particular. Here is a selective bibliography of sources that 
> I am already
> consulting:
> 
> Berlant, Lauren. 2008. *The female complaint : the unfinished 
> business of
> sentimentality in American culture*. Durham: Duke University Press.
> (especially for her concept of "intimate publics" in the introduction)
> 
> Buchanan, Ian, and Marcel Swiboda. 2004. *Deleuze and music*. 
> Edinburgh:Edinburgh University Press.
> 
> Campbell, John R., and Alan Rew. 1999.* Identity and affect : 
> experinces of
> identity in a globalising world*. London ; Sterling, Va.: Pluto Press.
> 
> Feld, Steven. 1982. *Sound and sentiment : birds, weeping, 
> poetics, and song
> in Kaluli expression*. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.
> Feld, Steven. 1995. Wept Thoughts : the voicing of Kaluli memories.
> In*South Pacific oral traditions
> *, edited by R. H. Finnegan and M. R. Orbell. Bloomington, IN: Indiana
> University Press.
> (the latter article is particularly useful for its elaboration 
> of a concept
> of emotion/affect as intellect/thought and, in particular, 
> weeping as a mode
> gathering one's thoughts rather than catharsis)
> 
> Lingis, Alphonso. 1994. *Foreign Bodies*. New York ; London: 
> Routledge.
> Massumi, Brian. 2002. *Parables for the virtual : movement, affect,
> sensation*, Post-contemporary interventions. Durham, NC: Duke 
> UniversityPress.
> 
> Sedgwick, Eve Kosofsky. 2003.* Touching feeling : affect, pedagogy,
> performativity,* Series Q. Durham: Duke University Press.
> 
> Seigworth, Gregory J. 2005. From affection to soul. In *Gilles 
> Deleuze : Key
> Concepts*, edited by C. J. Stivale. Montreal; Kingston; Ithaca:
> McGill-Queen's University Press.
> 
> Stewart, Kathleen. 2007. *Ordinary Affects*. Durham, NC: Duke 
> UniversityPress. (one of my favourites and only 100+ pages)
> 
> Terada, Rei. 2001. *Feeling in theory : emotion after the "death 
> of the
> subject"*. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press.
> 
> ===============
> 
> Many thanks to everyone on the list for their scholarly 
> generosity and
> support in the past and in the future. If anybody is working on 
> similarprojects, I'd be delighted to hear from you.
> 
> cheers,
> 
> Luis-Manuel Garcia
> PhD Candidate, Ethnomusicology
> University of Chicago
> 

Amparo Las?n Dpto Sociolog?a I Facultad de Ciencias Pol?ticas y Sociolog?a UCM Campus de Somosaguas Pozuelo de Alarc?n 28223 0034913942899 alasen at cps.ucm.es


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From: e_j_montano at hotmail.com (Ed Montano)
Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2009 14:03:44 +1000
Subject: [Dancecult-l] FW:  Affect-laden query
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Not sure if I'm on the right track suggesting this, but there is some material on clubbing crowds and togetherness in:

 

Malbon, Ben. 1999. Clubbing: Dancing, Ecstasy and Vitality. London: Routledge

 

Ed
 


Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2009 14:58:46 -0700
To: Dancecult-l at listcultures.org
From: g.stjohn at warpmail.net
Subject: Re: [Dancecult-l] Affect-laden query




This is an interesting research topic, and one that has proven very difficult to conduct -  one reason I suspect is the requirement to combine a disciplined distance with full immersion. I suspect that many researchers have gone into the clubbing crowd, or on to the dance floor, never to be seen again...


On this theme, I would also recommend consulting:


Jackson, Phil. 2004. Inside Clubbing: Sensual Experiments in the Art of Being Human. Oxford: Berg.


for a revisioning of Bourdieu's "habitus" in the exploration of the social eros of clubbing in London.


Im doubtful of its success, but Laughey attempts to deal with the complexity of clubbing crowds in his


Laughey, Dan. 2006. Music and Youth Culture. Edinburgh University Press: Edinburgh.


Personally i doubt any good study of EDM crowds could avoid running into the study of the carnivalesque (Bakhtin) nor some of Bataille's indulgences on sacrifice/consumption as rendered, for instance in the work of Fran?ois Gauthier (i think theres some refs at
http://www.dancecult.net/bibliography.php)


Graham








At 1:21 PM -0500 10/16/09, Luis-Manuel Garcia wrote:
Dear S?bastien and Gonnie,

Thanks to both of you for your suggestions. I'm familiar with the Tarde/LeBon readings and the Canetti's work, but I wasn't acquainted with the secondary crowd literature that you cited. I've found LeBon and Tarde give only limited purchase on my topic, since the archive they analyze for crowd excitement is rather different from nightclub crowds in several ways. Nonetheless, Tarde's notion of mimesis as the basis of affective transitivity is particularly useful for an accounting of the distribution of musical affect, especially when brought into dialogue with Brennan's more olfactory/atmospheric model. For your project, I'd also suggest in addition to Berlant's /The Female Complaint/ perhaps Michael Warner's /Publics and Counterpublics/ (which I think has appeared as an essay) as well as the Berlant/Warner essay "Sex in Public" (which is a both misleading and honest title) in /Critical Inquiry/ 24 (1998).

merci / dank je wel,

Luis-Manuel Garcia
PhD Candidate, Ethnomusicology
University of Chicago

On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 6:18 AM, Sebastien Tutenges <tutenges at hotmail.com> wrote:

Dear Luis-Manuel Garcia,

I am working on a PhD dissertation about nightlife tourism with a focus on young tourists at the Bulgarian nightlife resort, Sunny Beach.

Crowd ecstasy is obviously an important aspect of this kind of holidaymaking, and I have found it useful to read some of the classical European debates about crowds from the end of the nineteenth and early twentieth century. Particularly the works of Gabriel Tarde, Gustave Le Bon, Emile Durkheim and the more recent Elias Canetti are useful. They give us rather sophisticated interpretations of emotional contagion, crowd (de)control, heightened intersubjectivity and much more. If such issues are of interest to you, perhaps the following texts are worth a close look:

Barrows, s (1981) Distorting Mirrors: Visions of the Crowd in Late Nineteenth-Century France. New Haven, CT and London: Yale University Press.

Borch, C. (2006) 'The Exclusion of the Crowd: The Destiny of a Sociological Figure of the Irrational', European Journal of Social Theory 9(1), 83-102.

Canetti, E (1984) Crowds and Power, New York: Farrar Straus Giroux. [First published in 1960].
Brennan, T. (2004). The Transmission of Affect. New York: Cornell University Press
Durkheim, ?. (2001) The Elementary Forms of Religious Life Oxford: Oxford University Press. [First published in 1912].
Le Bon, G. (1960) The crowd, New York: Viking Press [First published 1895].

Tarde G. (2007) L'opinion et la foule. Editions du Sandre, after the edition F. Alcan 1901.

Thrift, N (2007) "Turbulens passions: Towards an understanding of the affective spaces of political performance", pp. 220-254 in Non-Representational Theory: Space, politics, affect. London and New York: Routledge.



In a couple of month, I hope to submit an article (heavily inspired by Michel Maffesoli and Christian Borch) with the title "Ecstatic Young Crowds: A case study of pub crawls at an international nightlife resort"

Kind regards,
S?bastien Tutenges

PhD student
Centre for Alcohol and Drug Research
Artillerivej 90, 2. sal.
2300 K?benhavn S
http://person.au.dk/stu at crf



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> Hi all,
>
> I haven't posted to Dancecult-L in a long time, so I ought to reintroduce
> myself. I'm an ethnomusicology student at the University of Chicago,
> studying intimacy in crowds at EDM events?or, to be more precise, the
> emergence of a sense of intimacy among strangers and acquaintances at EDM
> events in Chicago, Paris and Berlin. I recently wrapped up the major portion
> of my fieldwork and I've more or less moved to the writing phase, producing
> chapters on tactile/spatial metaphors of intimacy and on (the question of)
> solidarity in crowds. I'm preparing to work out my next chapter, which will
> focus more keenly on issues of affect (understood in the
> Spinozan-Bergsonian-Deleuzian sense) and sensory experience in/of EDM as it
> pertains to a sense of togetherness.
>
> In that vein, I thought I would poll the list on recent and/or important
> readings on affect and experience, especially about music in general or EDM
> in particular. Here is a selective bibliography of sources that I am already
> consulting:
>
> Berlant, Lauren. 2008. *The female complaint : the unfinished business of
> sentimentality in American culture*. Durham: Duke University Press.
> (especially for her concept of "intimate publics" in the introduction)
>
> Buchanan, Ian, and Marcel Swiboda. 2004. *Deleuze and music*. Edinburgh:
> Edinburgh University Press.
>
> Campbell, John R., and Alan Rew. 1999.* Identity and affect : experinces of
> identity in a globalising world*. London ; Sterling, Va.: Pluto Press.
>
> Feld, Steven. 1982. *Sound and sentiment : birds, weeping, poetics, and song
> in Kaluli expression*. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.
> Feld, Steven. 1995. Wept Thoughts : the voicing of Kaluli memories.
> In*South Pacific oral traditions
> *, edited by R. H. Finnegan and M. R. Orbell. Bloomington, IN: Indiana
> University Press.
> (the latter article is particularly useful for its elaboration of a concept
> of emotion/affect as intellect/thought and, in particular, weeping as a mode
> gathering one's thoughts rather than catharsis)
>
> Lingis, Alphonso. 1994. *Foreign Bodies*. New York ; London: Routledge.
>
> Massumi, Brian. 2002. *Parables for the virtual : movement, affect,
> sensation*, Post-contemporary interventions. Durham, NC: Duke University
> Press.
>
> Sedgwick, Eve Kosofsky. 2003.* Touching feeling : affect, pedagogy,
> performativity,* Series Q. Durham: Duke University Press.
>
> Seigworth, Gregory J. 2005. From affection to soul. In *Gilles Deleuze : Key
> Concepts*, edited by C. J. Stivale. Montreal; Kingston; Ithaca:
> McGill-Queen's University Press.
>
> Stewart, Kathleen. 2007. *Ordinary Affects*. Durham, NC: Duke University
> Press. (one of my favourites and only 100+ pages)
>
> Terada, Rei. 2001. *Feeling in theory : emotion after the "death of the
> subject"*. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press.
>
> ===============
>
> Many thanks to everyone on the list for their scholarly generosity and
> support in the past and in the future. If anybody is working on similar
> projects, I'd be delighted to hear from you.
>
> cheers,
>
> Luis-Manuel Garcia
> PhD Candidate, Ethnomusicology
> University of Chicago

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From actor at jordancrandall.com  Mon Oct 19 18:16:25 2009
From: actor at jordancrandall.com (Jordan Crandall)
Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2009 09:16:25 -0700
Subject: [Dancecult-l] Affect-laden query
In-Reply-To: <bb6dc5780910161121q70223e11k3647a86b5c26b833@mail.gmail.com>
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Very interesting topic indeed.  What I?ve been working on is an ecology of
gatherings of all sorts, with a focus on affect, and what I?ve found very
useful is assemblage theory, coming from Deleuze but significantly developed
by Manuel Delanda in his A New Philosophy of Society.  I think assemblage
theory has a lot of potential for understanding the nature of crowds, and it
connects to much work in the sciences, particularly concerning complexity
and emergence.  Massumi also references work in the sciences including
Gilbert Simondon.  The real significant accomplishment here is to try to
find a way to bridge the sciences and humanities in this area of research.
I?d love to keep in touch with you, Luis-Manuel, to find out where you?re
going with this fascinating topic.
Jordan


Jordan Crandall
Associate Professor
Dept of Visual Arts
University of California, San Diego
9500 Gilman Drive, Dept 0084
La Jolla, CA 92093-0084

jcrandall at ucsd.edu
http://jordancrandall.com
(310) 467 7062



On 10/16/09 11:21 AM, "Luis-Manuel Garcia" <theluisgarcia at gmail.com> wrote:

> Dear S?bastien and Gonnie,
> 
> Thanks to both of you for your suggestions. I'm familiar with the Tarde/LeBon
> readings and the Canetti's work, but I wasn't acquainted with the secondary
> crowd literature that you cited. I've found LeBon and Tarde give only limited
> purchase on my topic, since the archive they analyze for crowd excitement is
> rather different from nightclub crowds in several ways. Nonetheless, Tarde's
> notion of mimesis as the basis of affective transitivity is particularly
> useful for an accounting of the distribution of musical affect, especially
> when brought into dialogue with Brennan's more olfactory/atmospheric model.
> For your project, I'd also suggest in addition to Berlant's /The Female
> Complaint/ perhaps Michael Warner's /Publics and Counterpublics/ (which I
> think has appeared as an essay) as well as the Berlant/Warner essay "Sex in
> Public" (which is a both misleading and honest title) in /Critical Inquiry/ 24
> (1998).
> 
> merci / dank je wel,
> 
> Luis-Manuel Garcia
> PhD Candidate, Ethnomusicology
> University of Chicago
> 
> On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 6:18 AM, Sebastien Tutenges <tutenges at hotmail.com>
> wrote:
>> Dear Luis-Manuel Garcia,
>> ?
>> I am working on a PhD dissertation about nightlife tourism with a focus on
>> young tourists at the Bulgarian nightlife resort, Sunny Beach.
>> ?
>> Crowd ecstasy is obviously an important aspect of this kind of holidaymaking,
>> and I have found it useful to?read some of the classical European debates
>> about crowds from the end of the nineteenth and early twentieth century.
>> Particularly the works of Gabriel Tarde, Gustave Le Bon, Emile Durkheim and
>> the more recent Elias Canetti are useful. They give us rather sophisticated
>> interpretations of?emotional contagion, crowd (de)control, heightened
>> intersubjectivity and much more. If such issues are of interest to you,
>> perhaps the following texts are worth a close look:
>> ?
>> 
>> Barrows, s (1981) Distorting Mirrors: Visions of the Crowd in Late
>> Nineteenth-Century France. New Haven, CT and London: Yale University Press.
>> Borch, C. (2006) ?The Exclusion of the Crowd: The Destiny of a Sociological
>> Figure of the Irrational?, European Journal of Social Theory?9(1), 83?102.
>> Canetti, E (1984) Crowds and Power, New York: Farrar Straus Giroux. [First
>> published in 1960].
>> Brennan, T. (2004). The Transmission of Affect. New York: Cornell University
>> Press
>> Durkheim, ?. (2001) The Elementary Forms of Religious Life Oxford: Oxford
>> University Press. [First published in 1912].
>> Le Bon, G. (1960) The crowd, New York: Viking Press [First published 1895].
>> 
>> Tarde G. (2007) L'opinion et la foule. Editions du Sandre, after the edition
>> F. Alcan 1901.
>> Thrift, N (2007) ?Turbulens passions: Towards an understanding of the
>> affective spaces of political performance?, pp. 220-254 in
>> Non-Representational Theory: Space, politics, affect. London and New York:
>> Routledge.
>> ?
>> In a couple of month, I hope to submit an?article (heavily inspired by Michel
>> Maffesoli and Christian Borch) with the title "Ecstatic Young Crowds: A case
>> study of pub crawls at an international nightlife resort"?
>> 
>> Kind regards,
>> S?bastien Tutenges
>> 
>> PhD student
>> Centre for Alcohol and Drug Research
>> Artillerivej 90, 2. sal.
>> 2300 K?benhavn S
>> http://person.au.dk/stu at crf
>> ?
>> ?
>> ?
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>>> > From: Luis-Manuel Garcia <theluisgarcia at gmail.com>
>>> > Subject: [Dancecult-l] Affect-laden query
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>>> > 
>>> > Hi all,
>>> > 
>>> > I haven't posted to Dancecult-L in a long time, so I ought to reintroduce
>>> > myself. I'm an ethnomusicology student at the University of Chicago,
>>> > studying intimacy in crowds at EDM events?or, to be more precise, the
>>> > emergence of a sense of intimacy among strangers and acquaintances at EDM
>>> > events in Chicago, Paris and Berlin. I recently wrapped up the major
>>> portion
>>> > of my fieldwork and I've more or less moved to the writing phase,
>>> producing
>>> > chapters on tactile/spatial metaphors of intimacy and on (the question of)
>>> > solidarity in crowds. I'm preparing to work out my next chapter, which
>>> will
>>> > focus more keenly on issues of affect (understood in the
>>> > Spinozan-Bergsonian-Deleuzian sense) and sensory experience in/of EDM as
>>> it
>>> > pertains to a sense of togetherness.
>>> > 
>>> > In that vein, I thought I would poll the list on recent and/or important
>>> > readings on affect and experience, especially about music in general or
>>> EDM
>>> > in particular. Here is a selective bibliography of sources that I am
>>> already
>>> > consulting:
>>> > 
>>> > Berlant, Lauren. 2008. *The female complaint : the unfinished business of
>>> > sentimentality in American culture*. Durham: Duke University Press.
>>> > (especially for her concept of "intimate publics" in the introduction)
>>> > 
>>> > Buchanan, Ian, and Marcel Swiboda. 2004. *Deleuze and music*. Edinburgh:
>>> > Edinburgh University Press.
>>> > 
>>> > Campbell, John R., and Alan Rew. 1999.* Identity and affect : experinces
>>> of
>>> > identity in a globalising world*. London ; Sterling, Va.: Pluto Press.
>>> > 
>>> > Feld, Steven. 1982. *Sound and sentiment : birds, weeping, poetics, and
>>> song
>>> > in Kaluli expression*. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.
>>> > Feld, Steven. 1995. Wept Thoughts : the voicing of Kaluli memories.
>>> > In*South Pacific oral traditions
>>> > *, edited by R. H. Finnegan and M. R. Orbell. Bloomington, IN: Indiana
>>> > University Press.
>>> > (the latter article is particularly useful for its elaboration of a
>>> concept
>>> > of emotion/affect as intellect/thought and, in particular, weeping as a
>>> mode
>>> > gathering one's thoughts rather than catharsis)
>>> > 
>>> > Lingis, Alphonso. 1994. *Foreign Bodies*. New York ; London: Routledge.
>>> > 
>>> > Massumi, Brian. 2002. *Parables for the virtual : movement, affect,
>>> > sensation*, Post-contemporary interventions. Durham, NC: Duke University
>>> > Press.
>>> > 
>>> > Sedgwick, Eve Kosofsky. 2003.* Touching feeling : affect, pedagogy,
>>> > performativity,* Series Q. Durham: Duke University Press.
>>> > 
>>> > Seigworth, Gregory J. 2005. From affection to soul. In *Gilles Deleuze :
>>> Key
>>> > Concepts*, edited by C. J. Stivale. Montreal; Kingston; Ithaca:
>>> > McGill-Queen's University Press.
>>> > 
>>> > Stewart, Kathleen. 2007. *Ordinary Affects*. Durham, NC: Duke University
>>> > Press. (one of my favourites and only 100+ pages)
>>> > 
>>> > Terada, Rei. 2001. *Feeling in theory : emotion after the "death of the
>>> > subject"*. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press.
>>> > 
>>> > ===============
>>> > 
>>> > Many thanks to everyone on the list for their scholarly generosity and
>>> > support in the past and in the future. If anybody is working on similar
>>> > projects, I'd be delighted to hear from you.
>>> > 
>>> > cheers,
>>> > 
>>> > Luis-Manuel Garcia
>>> > PhD Candidate, Ethnomusicology
>>> > University of Chicago
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From halfsharpmusic at yahoo.ca  Mon Oct 19 19:30:23 2009
From: halfsharpmusic at yahoo.ca (Michael MacDonald)
Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2009 10:30:23 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: [Dancecult-l] Affect-laden query
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I agree about the usefulness of assemblage theory. I'm using it to discuss folk music festivals in western Canada to show how the aesthetics of folk music inform the social ethics of the festivals.  Assemblage theory provides for a number of very useful concepts and helps to draw links between subjective experience and group experience. Two concepts which Deleuze seemed to think we separated by degree rather than kind. 

For those trying to get around or beyond explaining group experience by way of  religious  concepts Deleuze has much to say on the matter. That said a great deal of what has been suggested here is secondary literature. Deleuze requires a rather high investment...it's difficult work that is not all in one book. If one is interested in DeLanda's Deleuzian social ontology Assemblage theory is the place to go. But a Deleuzian approach to music will not be found there. 

Also, beware of using Bogue as the definitive text on the subject. You would likely get more out of Hallward's "out of this world" Deleuze and the philosophy of creation.

m.

Michael B. MacDonald 

University of Alberta 
Music Department 
Ethnomusicology 
PhD Candidate 
Website/Teaching/Podcast : 
http://www.ualberta.ca/~mmacdona/_mmacdona
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________________________________
From: Jordan Crandall <actor at jordancrandall.com>
To: Dancecult <Dancecult-l at listcultures.org>
Sent: Mon, October 19, 2009 10:16:25 AM
Subject: Re: [Dancecult-l] Affect-laden query

Re: [Dancecult-l] Affect-laden query Very interesting topic indeed.  What I?ve been working on is an ecology of gatherings of all sorts, with a focus on affect, and what I?ve found very useful is assemblage theory, coming from Deleuze but significantly developed by Manuel Delanda in his A New Philosophy of Society.  I think assemblage theory has a lot of potential for understanding the nature of crowds, and it connects to much work in the sciences, particularly concerning complexity and emergence.  Massumi also references work in the sciences including Gilbert Simondon.  The real significant accomplishment here is to try to find a way to bridge the sciences and humanities in this area of research.  I?d love to keep in touch with you, Luis-Manuel, to find out where you?re going with this fascinating topic.
Jordan


Jordan Crandall
Associate Professor
Dept of Visual Arts
University of California, San Diego
9500 Gilman Drive, Dept 0084
La Jolla, CA 92093-0084

jcrandall at ucsd.edu
http://jordancrandall.com
(310) 467 7062



On 10/16/09 11:21 AM, "Luis-Manuel Garcia" <theluisgarcia at gmail.com> wrote:


Dear S?bastien and Gonnie,
>
>>Thanks to both of you for your suggestions. I'm familiar with the Tarde/LeBon readings and the Canetti's work, but I wasn't acquainted with the secondary crowd literature that you cited. I've found LeBon and Tarde give only limited purchase on my topic, since the archive they analyze for crowd excitement is rather different from nightclub crowds in several ways. Nonetheless, Tarde's notion of mimesis as the basis of affective transitivity is particularly useful for an accounting of the distribution of musical affect, especially when brought into dialogue with Brennan's more olfactory/atmospheric model. For your project, I'd also suggest in addition to Berlant's /The Female Complaint/ perhaps Michael Warner's /Publics and Counterpublics/ (which I think has appeared as an essay) as well as the Berlant/Warner essay "Sex in Public" (which is a both misleading and honest title) in /Critical Inquiry/ 24 (1998).
>
>>merci / dank je wel,
>
>>Luis-Manuel Garcia
>>PhD Candidate, Ethnomusicology
>>University of Chicago
>
>>On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 6:18 AM, Sebastien Tutenges <tutenges at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>Dear Luis-Manuel Garcia,
>>>> 
>>>>I am working on a PhD dissertation about nightlife tourism with a focus on young tourists at the Bulgarian nightlife resort, Sunny Beach.
>>>> 
>>>>Crowd ecstasy is obviously an important aspect of this kind of holidaymaking, and I have found it useful to read some of the classical European debates about crowds from the end of the nineteenth and early twentieth century. Particularly the works of Gabriel Tarde, Gustave Le Bon, Emile Durkheim and the more recent Elias Canetti are useful. They give us rather sophisticated interpretations of emotional contagion, crowd (de)control, heightened intersubjectivity and much more. If such issues are of interest to you, perhaps the following texts are worth a close look:
>>>> 
>>
>>Barrows, s (1981) Distorting Mirrors: Visions of the Crowd in Late Nineteenth-Century France. New Haven, CT and London: Yale University Press.
>>Borch, C. (2006) ?The Exclusion of the Crowd: The Destiny of a Sociological Figure of the Irrational?, European Journal of Social Theory 9(1), 83?102.
>>Canetti, E (1984) Crowds and Power, New York: Farrar Straus Giroux. [First published in 1960].
>>>>Brennan, T. (2004). The Transmission of Affect. New York: Cornell University Press
>>>>Durkheim, ?. (2001) The Elementary Forms of Religious Life Oxford: Oxford University Press. [First published in 1912].
>>>>Le Bon, G. (1960) The crowd, New York: Viking Press [First published 1895].
>>
>>Tarde G. (2007) L'opinion et la foule. Editions du Sandre, after the edition F. Alcan 1901.
>>>>Thrift, N (2007) ?Turbulens passions: Towards an understanding of the affective spaces of political performance?, pp. 220-254 in Non-Representational Theory: Space, politics, affect. London and New York: Routledge.
>> 
>>>>In a couple of month, I hope to submit an article (heavily inspired by Michel Maffesoli and Christian Borch) with the title "Ecstatic Young Crowds: A case study of pub crawls at an international nightlife resort" 
>>
>>>>Kind regards,
>>>>S?bastien Tutenges
>>
>>>>PhD student
>>>>Centre for Alcohol and Drug Research
>>>>Artillerivej 90, 2. sal.
>>>>2300 K?benhavn S
>>http://person.au.dk/stu at crf
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>>> From: dancecult-l-request at listcultures.org
>>>>> Subject: Dancecult-l Digest, Vol 48, Issue 2
>>>>> To: dancecult-l at listcultures.org
>>>>> Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2009 12:00:04 +0200
>>>>> 
>>>>> Send Dancecult-l mailing list submissions to
>>>>> dancecult-l at listcultures.org
>>>>> 
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>>>>> http://listcultures.org/mailman/listinfo/dancecult-l_listcultures.org
>>>>> or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to
>>>>> dancecult-l-request at listcultures.org
>>>>> 
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>>>>> dancecult-l-owner at listcultures.org
>>>>> 
>>>>> When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific
>>>>> than "Re: Contents of Dancecult-l digest..."
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> Today's Topics:
>>>>> 
>>>>> 1. Affect-laden query (Luis-Manuel Garcia)
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>>> 
>>>>> Message: 1
>>>>> Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2009 14:48:56 -0500
>>>>> From: Luis-Manuel Garcia <theluisgarcia at gmail.com>
>>>>> Subject: [Dancecult-l] Affect-laden query
>>>>> To: Dancecult <Dancecult-l at listcultures.org>
>>>>> Message-ID:
>>>>> <bb6dc5780910151248h3d3b1d7dqffeca538e87ba3bb at mail.gmail.com>
>>>>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="windows-1252"
>>
>>>>> 
>>>>> Hi all,
>>>>> 
>>>>> I haven't posted to Dancecult-L in a long time, so I ought to reintroduce
>>>>> myself. I'm an ethnomusicology student at the University of Chicago,
>>>>> studying intimacy in crowds at EDM events?or, to be more precise, the
>>>>> emergence of a sense of intimacy among strangers and acquaintances at EDM
>>>>> events in Chicago, Paris and Berlin. I recently wrapped up the major portion
>>>>> of my fieldwork and I've more or less moved to the writing phase, producing
>>>>> chapters on tactile/spatial metaphors of intimacy and on (the question of)
>>>>> solidarity in crowds. I'm preparing to work out my next chapter, which will
>>>>> focus more keenly on issues of affect (understood in the
>>>>> Spinozan-Bergsonian-Deleuzian sense) and sensory experience in/of EDM as it
>>>>> pertains to a sense of togetherness.
>>>>> 
>>>>> In that vein, I thought I would poll the list on recent and/or important
>>>>> readings on affect and experience, especially about music in general or EDM
>>>>> in particular. Here is a selective bibliography of sources that I am already
>>>>> consulting:
>>>>> 
>>>>> Berlant, Lauren. 2008. *The female complaint : the unfinished business of
>>>>> sentimentality in American culture*. Durham: Duke University Press.
>>>>> (especially for her concept of "intimate publics" in the introduction)
>>>>> 
>>>>> Buchanan, Ian, and Marcel Swiboda. 2004. *Deleuze and music*. Edinburgh:
>>>>> Edinburgh University Press.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Campbell, John R., and Alan Rew. 1999.* Identity and affect : experinces of
>>>>> identity in a globalising world*. London ; Sterling, Va.: Pluto Press.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Feld, Steven. 1982. *Sound and sentiment : birds, weeping, poetics, and song
>>>>> in Kaluli expression*. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.
>>>>> Feld, Steven. 1995. Wept Thoughts : the voicing of Kaluli memories.
>>>>> In*South Pacific oral traditions
>>>>> *, edited by R. H. Finnegan and M. R. Orbell. Bloomington, IN: Indiana
>>>>> University Press.
>>>>> (the latter article is particularly useful for its elaboration of a concept
>>>>> of emotion/affect as intellect/thought and, in particular, weeping as a mode
>>>>> gathering one's thoughts rather than catharsis)
>>>>> 
>>>>> Lingis, Alphonso. 1994. *Foreign Bodies*. New York ; London: Routledge.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Massumi, Brian. 2002. *Parables for the virtual : movement, affect,
>>>>> sensation*, Post-contemporary interventions. Durham, NC: Duke University
>>>>> Press.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Sedgwick, Eve Kosofsky. 2003.* Touching feeling : affect, pedagogy,
>>>>> performativity,* Series Q. Durham: Duke University Press.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Seigworth, Gregory J. 2005. From affection to soul. In *Gilles Deleuze : Key
>>>>> Concepts*, edited by C. J. Stivale. Montreal; Kingston; Ithaca:
>>>>> McGill-Queen's University Press.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Stewart, Kathleen. 2007. *Ordinary Affects*. Durham, NC: Duke University
>>>>> Press. (one of my favourites and only 100+ pages)
>>>>> 
>>>>> Terada, Rei. 2001. *Feeling in theory : emotion after the "death of the
>>>>> subject"*. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press.
>>>>> 
>>>>> ===============
>>>>> 
>>>>> Many thanks to everyone on the list for their scholarly generosity and
>>>>> support in the past and in the future. If anybody is working on similar
>>>>> projects, I'd be delighted to hear from you.
>>>>> 
>>>>> cheers,
>>>>> 
>>>>> Luis-Manuel Garcia
>>>>> PhD Candidate, Ethnomusicology
>>>>> University of Chicago
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From: theluisgarcia at gmail.com (Luis-Manuel Garcia)
Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2009 13:35:14 -0500
Subject: [Dancecult-l] Affect-laden query
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Hi Michael, Jordan, Ed, Maria, Graham, Stephen, and everyone else who has
responded,

I've been away from the internet for the past few days, so imagine my
surprise when I checked my mail just now and found a fresh batch of emails
from you all. Many thanks for all of your interest and words of support, as
well as the many useful suggestions. I'm very much interested to hear more
from the rest of you that are working on topics of crowds & affect. To
respond to the most recent set of emails, I'd say that I'm very much
interested in the concept of the assemblage as a model for crowd-centered
events, particularly in how it can balace a process-oriented notion of flow
and flux with intermittent, vibrating stability. Particularly, Deleuze's use
of a vocabulary of coagulation, solidification and liquefaction in the
introduction to /Mille plateaux/ seems indispensible.

For those who are following the threads of citational suggestions, I should
also add Richard Dyer's essay, "Affect and Utopia," from /Only
Entertainment/, which provides both a theory and a case-study of thinking
about utopian aesthetics as non-representational and yet affective.
Essentially, he argues that early 20th-c. musical films are utopian?but
instead of representing a model of how a utopia would be organized (e.g.,
equality, individual freedoms, disalienated labor, social solidarity), it
intimates how such a utopia would feel (abundance, energy, transparency,
community).

thanks again to everyone,
Luis

Luis-Manuel Garcia
PhD Candidate, Ethnomusicology
University of Chicago

On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 12:30 PM, Michael MacDonald <halfsharpmusic at yahoo.ca
> wrote:

> I agree about the usefulness of assemblage theory. I'm using it to discuss
> folk music festivals in western Canada to show how the aesthetics of folk
> music inform the social ethics of the festivals.  Assemblage theory provides
> for a number of very useful concepts and helps to draw links between
> subjective experience and group experience. Two concepts which Deleuze
> seemed to think we separated by degree rather than kind.
>
> For those trying to get around or beyond explaining group experience by way
> of  religious  concepts Deleuze has much to say on the matter. That said a
> great deal of what has been suggested here is secondary literature. Deleuze
> requires a rather high investment...it's difficult work that is not all in
> one book. If one is interested in DeLanda's Deleuzian social ontology
> Assemblage theory is the place to go. But a Deleuzian approach to music will
> not be found there.
>
> Also, beware of using Bogue as the definitive text on the subject. You
> would likely get more out of Hallward's "out of this world" Deleuze and the
> philosophy of creation.
>
> m.
>
> Michael B. MacDonald
>
> University of Alberta
> Music Department
> Ethnomusicology
> PhD Candidate
> Website/Teaching/Podcast :
> http://www.ualberta.ca/~mmacdona/_mmacdona<http://www.ualberta.ca/%7Emmacdona/_mmacdona/Welcome.html>
> Dissertation: http://westfolk.ca/ <http://twitter.com/halfsharpmusic>
> Twitter:  http://twitter.com/halfsharpmusic
> Blog: http://halfsharpmusic.wordpress.com/
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
> *From:* Jordan Crandall <actor at jordancrandall.com>
> *To:* Dancecult <Dancecult-l at listcultures.org>
> *Sent:* Mon, October 19, 2009 10:16:25 AM
> *Subject:* Re: [Dancecult-l] Affect-laden query
>
> Very interesting topic indeed.  What I?ve been working on is an ecology of
> gatherings of all sorts, with a focus on affect, and what I?ve found very
> useful is assemblage theory, coming from Deleuze but significantly developed
> by Manuel Delanda in his A New Philosophy of Society.  I think assemblage
> theory has a lot of potential for understanding the nature of crowds, and it
> connects to much work in the sciences, particularly concerning complexity
> and emergence.  Massumi also references work in the sciences including
> Gilbert Simondon.  The real significant accomplishment here is to try to
> find a way to bridge the sciences and humanities in this area of research.
>  I?d love to keep in touch with you, Luis-Manuel, to find out where you?re
> going with this fascinating topic.
> Jordan
>
>
> Jordan Crandall
> Associate Professor
> Dept of Visual Arts
> University of California, San Diego
> 9500 Gilman Drive, Dept 0084
> La Jolla, CA 92093-0084
>
> jcrandall at ucsd.edu
> http://jordancrandall.com
> (310) 467 7062
>
>
>
> On 10/16/09 11:21 AM, "Luis-Manuel Garcia" <theluisgarcia at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> Dear S?bastien and Gonnie,
>
> Thanks to both of you for your suggestions. I'm familiar with the
> Tarde/LeBon readings and the Canetti's work, but I wasn't acquainted with
> the secondary crowd literature that you cited. I've found LeBon and Tarde
> give only limited purchase on my topic, since the archive they analyze for
> crowd excitement is rather different from nightclub crowds in several ways.
> Nonetheless, Tarde's notion of mimesis as the basis of affective
> transitivity is particularly useful for an accounting of the distribution of
> musical affect, especially when brought into dialogue with Brennan's more
> olfactory/atmospheric model. For your project, I'd also suggest in addition
> to Berlant's /The Female Complaint/ perhaps Michael Warner's /Publics and
> Counterpublics/ (which I think has appeared as an essay) as well as the
> Berlant/Warner essay "Sex in Public" (which is a both misleading and honest
> title) in /Critical Inquiry/ 24 (1998).
>
> merci / dank je wel,
>
> Luis-Manuel Garcia
> PhD Candidate, Ethnomusicology
> University of Chicago
>
> On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 6:18 AM, Sebastien Tutenges <tutenges at hotmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> Dear Luis-Manuel Garcia,
>
> I am working on a PhD dissertation about nightlife tourism with a focus on
> young tourists at the Bulgarian nightlife resort, Sunny Beach.
>
> Crowd ecstasy is obviously an important aspect of this kind of
> holidaymaking, and I have found it useful to read some of the classical
> European debates about crowds from the end of the nineteenth and early
> twentieth century. Particularly the works of Gabriel Tarde, Gustave Le Bon,
> Emile Durkheim and the more recent Elias Canetti are useful. They give us
> rather sophisticated interpretations of emotional contagion, crowd
> (de)control, heightened intersubjectivity and much more. If such issues are
> of interest to you, perhaps the following texts are worth a close look:
>
>
> Barrows, s (1981) *Distorting Mirrors: Visions of the Crowd in Late
> Nineteenth-Century France*. New Haven, CT and London: Yale University
> Press.
> Borch, C. (2006) ?The Exclusion of the Crowd: The Destiny of a Sociological
> Figure of the Irrational?, *European Journal of Social Theory* 9(1),
> 83?102.
> Canetti, E (1984) *Crowds and Power*, New York: Farrar Straus Giroux.
> [First published in 1960].
> Brennan, T. (2004). The Transmission of Affect. New York: Cornell
> University Press
> Durkheim, ?. (2001) *The Elementary Forms of Religious Life* Oxford:
> Oxford University Press. [First published in 1912].
> Le Bon, G. (1960) *The crowd,* New York: Viking Press [First published
> 1895].
>
> Tarde G. (2007) L'opinion et la foule. Editions du Sandre, after the
> edition F. Alcan 1901.
> Thrift, N (2007) ?Turbulens passions: Towards an understanding of the
> affective spaces of political performance?, pp. 220-254 in
> Non-Representational Theory: Space, politics, affect. London and New York:
> Routledge.
>
> In a couple of month, I hope to submit an article (heavily inspired by
> Michel Maffesoli and Christian Borch) with the title "*Ecstatic Young
> Crowds*: *A case study of pub crawls at an international nightlife
> resort" *
>
> Kind regards,
> S?bastien Tutenges
>
> PhD student
> Centre for Alcohol and Drug Research
> Artillerivej 90, 2. sal.
> 2300 K?benhavn S
> http://person.au.dk/stu at crf
>
>
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> > From: Luis-Manuel Garcia <theluisgarcia at gmail.com>
> > Subject: [Dancecult-l] Affect-laden query
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> > Hi all,
> >
> > I haven't posted to Dancecult-L in a long time, so I ought to reintroduce
> > myself. I'm an ethnomusicology student at the University of Chicago,
> > studying intimacy in crowds at EDM events?or, to be more precise, the
> > emergence of a sense of intimacy among strangers and acquaintances at EDM
> > events in Chicago, Paris and Berlin. I recently wrapped up the major
> portion
> > of my fieldwork and I've more or less moved to the writing phase,
> producing
> > chapters on tactile/spatial metaphors of intimacy and on (the question
> of)
> > solidarity in crowds. I'm preparing to work out my next chapter, which
> will
> > focus more keenly on issues of affect (understood in the
> > Spinozan-Bergsonian-Deleuzian sense) and sensory experience in/of EDM as
> it
> > pertains to a sense of togetherness.
> >
> > In that vein, I thought I would poll the list on recent and/or important
> > readings on affect and experience, especially about music in general or
> EDM
> > in particular. Here is a selective bibliography of sources that I am
> already
> > consulting:
> >
> > Berlant, Lauren. 2008. *The female complaint : the unfinished business of
> > sentimentality in American culture*. Durham: Duke University Press.
> > (especially for her concept of "intimate publics" in the introduction)
> >
> > Buchanan, Ian, and Marcel Swiboda. 2004. *Deleuze and music*. Edinburgh:
> > Edinburgh University Press.
> >
> > Campbell, John R., and Alan Rew. 1999.* Identity and affect : experinces
> of
> > identity in a globalising world*. London ; Sterling, Va.: Pluto Press.
> >
> > Feld, Steven. 1982. *Sound and sentiment : birds, weeping, poetics, and
> song
> > in Kaluli expression*. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.
> > Feld, Steven. 1995. Wept Thoughts : the voicing of Kaluli memories.
> > In*South Pacific oral traditions
> > *, edited by R. H. Finnegan and M. R. Orbell. Bloomington, IN: Indiana
> > University Press.
> > (the latter article is particularly useful for its elaboration of a
> concept
> > of emotion/affect as intellect/thought and, in particular, weeping as a
> mode
> > gathering one's thoughts rather than catharsis)
> >
> > Lingis, Alphonso. 1994. *Foreign Bodies*. New York ; London: Routledge.
> >
> > Massumi, Brian. 2002. *Parables for the virtual : movement, affect,
> > sensation*, Post-contemporary interventions. Durham, NC: Duke University
> > Press.
> >
> > Sedgwick, Eve Kosofsky. 2003.* Touching feeling : affect, pedagogy,
> > performativity,* Series Q. Durham: Duke University Press.
> >
> > Seigworth, Gregory J. 2005. From affection to soul. In *Gilles Deleuze :
> Key
> > Concepts*, edited by C. J. Stivale. Montreal; Kingston; Ithaca:
> > McGill-Queen's University Press.
> >
> > Stewart, Kathleen. 2007. *Ordinary Affects*. Durham, NC: Duke University
> > Press. (one of my favourites and only 100+ pages)
> >
> > Terada, Rei. 2001. *Feeling in theory : emotion after the "death of the
> > subject"*. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press.
> >
> > ===============
> >
> > Many thanks to everyone on the list for their scholarly generosity and
> > support in the past and in the future. If anybody is working on similar
> > projects, I'd be delighted to hear from you.
> >
> > cheers,
> >
> > Luis-Manuel Garcia
> > PhD Candidate, Ethnomusicology
> > University of Chicago
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From a-dandrea at uchicago.edu  Mon Oct 19 20:49:25 2009
From: a-dandrea at uchicago.edu (Anthony D'Andrea)
Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2009 11:49:25 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: [Dancecult-l] Affect-laden query
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Hola Luis-Manuel,

A very modest Deleuzian reading of rave formations is the chapter "Techno Trance Tribalism in Goa: the elementary forms of nomadic spirituality" in my book "Global Nomads". I am happy that Charles de Ledesma highlighted this passage in his book review for Dancecult.  I sought to balance my Deleuzian lines of flight with some good Foucauldian ideo-institutionalism.

I agree with Prof. Crandall point on bridging sciences and humanities.  IMHO, the question is not so much what philosophies you choose to deploy through your analysis, but rather, how much you respect your empirical horizon while using these philosophies when producing new knowledge.

VBW, S, AD'



"The nomad does not move." (Deleuze & Guattari) 
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ISSP Research Fellow - Dept. Sociology, University of Limerick
International Alumni Lecturer - University of Chicago

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From m.duffett at chester.ac.uk  Thu Oct 29 15:57:59 2009
From: m.duffett at chester.ac.uk (Mark Duffett)
Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2009 14:57:59 +0000
Subject: [Dancecult-l] NW UK Popular music talk in two weeks
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Apologies for cross posting...

?Gods, Gangs and Honour? ? Steve Machat talk for Northwest Popular Music
Studies Network

3pm, 
Friday 13th November,
Room WTU001 (Business Centre, Tucker Building)
Warrington Campus, 
University of Chester 
( Directions: http://www.chester.ac.uk/find_warrington )

As the University of Chester?s Warrington campus is in the middle of the
Northwest, for a while now I?ve been talking to various people in the
region about holding a regular event to parallel the one organized in
Scotland by Martin Cloonan. The idea is that postgraduates, staff and
visiting popular music scholars can meet up on a relatively informal
basis with the possibility of presenting papers if they wish. We also
intend to retire to the local pub afterwards. 

To give a focus to our first meeting, I have invited Steven Machat to
give a talk about his experiences in the Anglo-American music industry.
The son of legendary showbusiness lawyer Marty Machat, Steven grew up
around artists like Frank Sinatra, James Brown, Frankie Valli and Sam
Cooke. With offices based in Broadway and London, he has several decades
of experience as a music lawyer, manager, label owner and publicist,
working with everyone from Seal and Donnie Osmond to Bobby Brown and
Suge Knight. He was also central in creating the WOMAD festival
alongside Peter Garbriel. While Steven will be keen to recount tales
from his new book, ?Gods, Gangs and Honour,? his talk will afford us a
rare opportunity to probe someone who has worked in the industry at its
highest level.  

Everyone is welcome, whether working in the region or beyond. 

The event is free - if you wish to come to please add you details
through the link below, so we can estimate the numbers:

http://www.markduffett.com/nwpmsn.html

Thanks,
Mark Duffett

Dept of Media, 
Warrington Campus,
University of Chester.
m.duffett at chester.ac.uk