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Award-Winning Highlights
Winner of the 2025 Woody Guthrie Award, presented by the International Association for the Study of Popular Music-US Branch
Together, Somehow
Drawing on fieldwork in the minimal techno and house music sub-scenes in Chicago, Paris, and Berlin, Luis Manuel Garcia-Mispireta shows that people get along and share the dancefloor by an intimacy and belonging rooted in affect.
Winner of the 2025 Latin American Studies Association’s Environment Section Best Book Award
Subterranean Matters
In Subterranean Matters, Andrea Marston examines the ongoing history of Bolivian mining cooperatives, an economic formation that has been a central and contested feature of Bolivian politics and economy.
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