UCD Seminar Series

UCD Seminar in Musicology presents

 

Dr Luis Manuel Garcia (Berlin/Chicago)

‘Feeling Utopian on the Dancefloor: a very short history’

 

This seminar will offer a very brief history of utopianism in electronic dance music culture, from disco onwards, placing a particular emphasis on the affective dimensions of utopianism (through Bloch and Richard Dyer) and its aestheticization in music.

 

Thursday, 17 October

1pm-3pm

Room J311, Newman Building

UCD School of Music

Belfield, Dublin 4