Cover of Together, Somehow: Music, Affect, and Intimacy on the Dancefloor by Luis Manuel Garcia-Mispireta. Cover is a blurry photo of a crowd on the dancefloor. The photo is tinted with a blue to pink gradient, starting with blue at the bottom and pink at the top.

Congratulations to Luis Manuel Garcia-Mispireta @lmgm.bsky.social , whose book "Together, Somehow," is the 2025 winner of the Woody Guthrie Award, given by iaspm-us.bsky.social .
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this ethnographic project is based in Bristol U.K. - please get in touch if you are researching in similar fields or are interested in the project !

hello, I am on here now and by way of introduction I am a queer non-binary trans person and PhD student exploring how musical performance in drag shows and ballroom is trans-coded and how experience of this affects both individual and collective transness 🏳️‍⚧️