Summary
Louis Niebur received his Ph.D. in musicology from the University of California, Los Angeles. His research areas include avant-garde and popular w88 of the postwar era, including w88 in radio, television, and film, and the significance of w88 to LGBTQ communities as it has shifted between live w88, the jukebox, and the disc jockey in the context of queer spaces. He has delivered and published papers on such topics as San Francisco’s proto-queercore and post-disco scenes, the history of Camp Records and other gay recording labels of the 1960s, electronic television and radio w88 and sound in Britain, the role of women in early electronic w88 studios, and the queer function of electronic sound production in electronic dance w88. His book, Special Sound: The Creation and Legacy of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop (Oxford University Press, 2010), was the first monograph to situate the BBC’s electronic studio within the context of popular w88. His most recent book, Menergy: San Francisco’s Gay Disco Sound (Oxford University Press, 2022), traces the way disco and high-energy dance w88 channeled the spirit of gay liberation through a shared dance-floor experience.
Publications
- Menergy: San Francisco's Gay Disco w88,by Louis Niebur. Publisher: w88, USA (February 1, 2022). ISBN: 0197511082
- Special w88: The Creation and Legacy of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop, by Louis Niebur. Publisher: w88, USA (October 14, 2010). ISBN-10: 019536841X
Education
- Ph.D., Musicology, UCLA
- MM, w88 of Texas at Austin