Georgina Born

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

Live and act

Born is the daughter of the psychoanalyst Faith Born and the pharmacologist Gustav Victor Rudolf Born and granddaughter of the Nobel Prize winner Max Born . She studied cello at the Royal College of Music in London and is at home in various directions in both classical and modern music. This includes her participation in the Penguin Cafe Orchestra , Michael Nyman's orchestra and The Flying Lizards . She played with a jazz rock group The Hi-Tones before joining the English art and avant-garde rock group Henry Cow in 1976 as their cellist and bassist . She belonged to Henry Cow until its dissolution in 1978. During this time, she also worked for National Health .

In 1977 she founded the Feminist Improvising Group with Lindsay Cooper, Sally Potter and Maggie Nicols , with which she toured for the next few years. At the same time Born played concerts and made recordings with a number of groups and musicians such as Lindsay Cooper , Bruford and Mike Westbrook , particularly as a cellist in the Westbrook Orchestra. Her playing is particularly outstanding on the Westbrook live album The Cortege . Born also played the cello and bass guitar in numerous soundtracks in television and cinema films by the composers Lindsay Cooper and Mike Westbrook, including for the drama Caught on a Train by Stephen Poliakoff (1980). She also played an extra role in Sally Potter's 1983 film The Gold Diggers . During that time she was also involved in recordings with the British post-punk group The Raincoats around 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 . During the 1980s she was part of Derek Bailey 's free improvising group Company .

After her career as a musician, she completed her PhD in anthropology at University College London. She then lectured at the University of Cambridge . From 1997 to 1998 she was a Senior Research Fellow at King's College (Cambridge) and from 1998 to 2006 a Fellow (and director of the Social Sciences and Political Science program) at Emmanuel College (Cambridge) . From 2006 to September 2010 she was 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 the Cultural Sociology Center at Yale University , an International Fellow of the Australian Sociological Association and a member of the Advisory Board for Studies in Valuation Research (Vienna - London - New York: Universal Edition).

Born is a member of the European Research Council's expert committee on social sciences and humanities . She is also chair of the Art and Science program committee of the Vienna Science, Research and Technology Fund (WWTF) and research director of the joint research initiative 'Improvisation, Community, and Social Practice' funded by the Canadian Research Council for the Social Sciences and Humanities (SSHRC). In 2008 she was awarded the Dent Medal of the Royal Musical Association for her contributions to music research. In 2014 she was elected to the British Academy , 2015 to the Academia Europaea .

Scientific approach

Born works with ethnological , sociological , musicological , cultural , historical and political approaches. Using an ethnological approach, she researched the production conditions of cultural creation, particularly in music, television media, information technology and on European-North American systems of knowledge and intellectual history. Among other things, she examined the transformation of the BBC and the British public broadcasting system over the past decade, researched the institutionalization of the musical avant-garde and musicological collaborations of the Institut de Recherche et Coordination Acoustique / Musique IRCAM by Pierre Boulez, and research on diversity, representation and rapprochement in the western music. In critically comparative studies on interdisciplinarity and society with the geographer Andrew Barry and the social anthropologist Marilyn Strathern, she analyzed from 2004 to 2006 what constitutes interdisciplinary cooperation, which brings together natural sciences and engineering on the one hand and the arts and social sciences on the other. Furthermore, she works on normative dimensions of the public service broadcasting with a focus on how democratic theory and theories of social and sociocultural differences (cf. gender studies ) can be incorporated into the analysis of the future of public media systems. Another focus is 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 0520202163 .
  • Georgina Born and David Hesmondhalgh: Western Music and Its Others: Difference, Representation, and Appropriation in Music . University of California Press, 2000, ISBN 0520220846 .
  • Georgina Born: Uncertain Vision: Birt's BBC and the Erosion of Creativity . Secker & Warburg, 2004, ISBN 0436205629 .
  • Georgina Born, Andrew Barry: Interdisciplinarity: Reconfigurations of the Social and Natural Sciences. Routledge 2013.
  • Music, Sound and Space: Transformations of Public and Private Experience. Cambridge University Press 2013.
  • Georgina Born, Eric Lewis, Will Straw: Improvisation and Social Aesthetics. Duke University Press 2017.

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

with Lindsay Cooper

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

with News from Babel

  • Work Resumed on the Tower (1983)

with Peter Blegvad

  • The Naked Shakespeare (1983)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Max and Gustav Born Foundation
personal data
SURNAME Born, Georgina
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Born, Georgie
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British cultural anthropologist and musician
DATE OF BIRTH November 15, 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH Wheatley , Oxfordshire , England