Georgina Born, OBE FBA is a professor of music and anthropology at the University of Oxford. Earlier, she worked as a musician with avant-garde rock, jazz and improvising groups. Her work combines ethnographic and theoretical writings on music, sound, television and digital media. Her books are Rationalizing Culture: IRCAM, Boulez and the Institutionalization of the Musical Avant-Garde, Western Music and Its Other: Difference, Representation, and Appropriation in Music, Uncertain Vision: Birt, Dyke and the Reinvention of the BBC, Music, Sound and Space, Interdisciplinarity and Improvisation and Social Aesthetics. Two books are forthcoming: Music and Digital Media: A Planetary Anthropology and Music and Genre: New Directions. Born directed the European Research Council funded research program “Music, Digitization, Mediation: Towards Interdisciplinary Music Studies.” She has been a visiting professor at the University of California, Berkeley, the University of California, Irvine, and McGill, Hong Kong, Oslo and Aarhus universities.