Georgina Born

Georgina " Georgie " Born (born 15 November 1955 Wheatley, Oxfordshire, England) is a British anthropologist, university teacher and musician. As a musician she is known as Georgie Born, in their academic environment Georgina Born used her full name.

Life and work

Born the daughter of psychoanalyst Faith Born and pharmacologists Gustav Victor Rudolf Born and granddaughter of Nobel laureate Max Born. She studied cello at the Royal College of Music in London and is housed in different directions of the classical and modern music. This includes their participation in the Penguin Cafe Orchestra, the orchestra of Michael Nyman and at The Flying Lizards. She played with a jazz-rock group The Hi -Tones, before it was in 1976 a member of the English style and avant-garde rock group Henry Cow as their cellist and bassist. To Henry Cow it belonged until its dissolution in 1978. Meanwhile she worked with also with National Health.

In 1977 she founded together with Lindsay Cooper, Sally Potter and Maggie Nicols the Feminist Improvising Group, with whom she was on tour in the coming years. Parallel Born played concerts and recorded with a number of groups and musicians such as Lindsay Cooper, Bruford and Mike Westbrook, especially as cellist of Westbrook Orchestra. Your game is particularly outstanding on the Westbrook - live album The Cortege. Here Born cello and bass guitar played in numerous soundtracks in television and theatrical films of the composer Lindsay Cooper and Mike Westbrook, including for the drama Caught on a Train by Stephen Poliakoff (1980). She also played a role in extras Sally Potter film The Gold Diggers (1983). At the time she was also involved in recording with the British post-punk group The Raincoats by Ana da Silva and Gina Birch and played improvised music with Lol Coxhill, Steve Beresford, David Toop and others., As a member of the London Musicians' Collective In the 1980s it was at times a member of Derek Bailey's free improvising group Company.

After their musicians career, she has a doctorate in anthropology at University College London. After that, she lectured at the University of Cambridge. 1997 to 1998 she was a Senior Research Fellow of King's College (Cambridge) and 1998-2006 Fellow ( and director of the study program Social Sciences and Political Science ) Emmanuel College ( Cambridge ). 2006 to September 2010 she was a professor of sociology, anthropology and music at the University of Cambridge and Honorary Professor of Anthropology at University College London. Since October 2010 she has been Professor of Music and Anthropology at the University of Oxford. She is a Fellow of cultural sociology Center of Yale University, an International Fellow of the Australian Sociological Association and a member of the advisory board of Studies on Evaluation Research ( Vienna - London - New York: Universal Edition).

Born a member of the social sciences and humanities expert committee of the European Research Council. She is also chairperson of the Program Committee Art and Science of the Vienna Science, Research and Technology Fund (WWTF ) and head of research by the Canadian Research Council for Humanities and Social Sciences ( SSHRC ) funded Community Research Initiative ' Improvisation, Community, and Social Practice '. In 2008 she was awarded for music research, with the Dent Medal of the Royal Musical Association for their contributions.

Scientific Approach

Born works with ethnological, sociological, musicological, cultural, historical and political science approaches. So she did research with an ethnographic approach to production conditions of cultural creation, especially in music, television and media, information technology and to European and North American systems of knowledge and intellectual history. It examined, among others, the transformation of the BBC and the British public broadcasting system over the last decade researching the institutionalization of the musical avant -garde and musicological cooperation of the Institut de Recherche et Coordination Acoustique / Musique IRCAM by Pierre Boulez and diversity, representation and approximation in the Western music. In critical comparative studies on interdisciplinarity and society with the geographer Andrew Barry and the social anthropologist Marilyn Strathern, she analyzed from 2004 to 2006, what interdisciplinary cooperation, on the one hand and on the other hand, brings together science and engineering, the Arts and Social Sciences has to offer. In addition, she works on normative dimensions of public service broadcasting with the focus on how democratic theory and theories of social and socio-cultural differences ( see for example the gender studies ) can be introduced into the analysis of the future of public media systems. Another focus is on questions about music, sound, and the reconfiguration of public and private space.

Bibliography

• Georgina Born: Rationalizing Culture: IRCAM, Boulez, and the Institutionalization of the Musical Avant -Garde. University of California Press, 1995, ISBN 0520202163rd
• Georgina Born and David Hesmondhalgh: Western Music and Its Others: Difference, Representation, and Appropriation in Music. University of California Press, 2000, ISBN 0,520,220,846th
• Georgina Born: Uncertain Vision: Birt 's BBC and the erosion of Creativity. Secker & Warburg, 2004, ISBN 0436205629th

Discography

With Art Bears

• Hope and Fears (1978 )

With National Health

• Of Queues and Cures ( 1978)

With Henry Cow

• The Road. Vol 6-10 ( 1977-78 )
• Western Culture (1979 )

With Bruford

• Gradually Going Tornado (1980 )

With Mike Westbrook

• Bright as Fire ( 1980)
• The Cortege (1982 )
• On Duke 's Birthday ( 1989)

Lindsay Cooper

• Rags (1981)
• The Gold Diggers - Original Soundtrack to the film by Sally Potter The Gold Diggers (1983 )
• Music for Other Occasions (1986 )

With News from Babel

• Work Resumed on the Tower (1983 )

With Peter Blegvad

• The Naked Shakespeare ( 1983)