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