G Born
Biographic Data
| ID | 21043 |
|---|---|
| NAME | G Born |
| GIVEN NAMES | G |
| FAMILY NAME | Born |
| SIGNATURE | BORN G |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Cambridge |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4056-9053 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 32 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 510 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 32 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 10 |
Music, Modernism And Signification
In this paper I will suggest that in order to understand how music produces meaning, it is necessary to develop a framework that engages with it as culture in the widest sense. The analysis of how meaning is produced by music-as-culture poses a broader problematic than that posed by the apparently narrowly textual arts, visual or literary But rather than being irrelevant to their analysis, this problematic may, in turn, feed back insights into th…
Reinventing audiences
This chapter addresses speculatively how live music audiences might become a crucible for experiments in radical democracy. It criticizes the tendency to conflate the properties of the musical object or event with the nature of its reception; citing Bakhtin’s addressivity, it highlights the gap between two states of audience – projected, and actualized. With reference to the feminist social theories of Marilyn Strathern, Moira Gatens and Geneviev…
On Nonhuman Sound—Sound as Relation
Mediating the Public Sphere
Music, Mediation Theories and Actor-Network Theory
The concept of mediation in relation to music has a rich history and varied meanings. Its most famous proponent, Theodor Adorno, drew his theory of mediation from ‘a Hegelian interpretation of Marx
Chapter 1 After Relational Aesthetics Improvised Music, the Social, and (Re)theorizing the Aesthetic
What does it mean to speak of a social aesthetics and, in particular, to do so in relation to improvised music?In this mainly conceptual chapter I develop some proposals concerning the relations between improvised music and the social and pursue the implications for retheorizing the aesthetic.I will be concerned with the social mediation of music, where mediation is conceived as a two-way or co-productive process.As we will see, music engenders c…
From Microsound to Vaporwave
Journal Article From Microsound to Vaporwave: Internet-Mediated Musics, Online Methods, and Genre Get access Georgina Born, Georgina Born University of Oxford; email: [email protected]; University of Birmingham; email: [email protected]. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Christopher Haworth Christopher Haworth University of Oxford; email: [email protected]; University of Birmingham…
Gender, Creativity and Education in Digital Musics and Sound Art
This special issue examines the politics of gender in relation to higher education, creative practices and historical processes in electronic music, computer music and sound art. The starting point is a summary of research findings on the student demographics associated with the burgeoning of music technology (MT) undergraduate degrees in Britain since the mid-1990s. The findings show a clear bifurcation: the demographics of students taking Briti…
Music Technology, Gender, and Class
Music technology undergraduate degree programmes are a relatively new phenomenon in British higher education, situated at the intersection of music, digital technologies, and sound art. Such degrees have exploded in popularity over the past fifteen years. Yet the social and cultural ramifications of this development have not yet been analysed. In looking comparatively at the demographics of both traditional music and music technology degrees, we …
Making Time
One of the most sustained criticisms of Bourdieu's work is its poverty with respect to theorizing time, change, and history. In this light, this article traces out a series of novel paths in the analysis of temporality and history in relation to cultural production, informed by recent work in anthropology, social theory, and (less so) art history. The challenge of developing new perspectives on such matters does not arise solely from critiques of…
Introduction – music, sound and space
When new instruments will allow me to write music as I conceive it, the movement of sound-masses, of shifting planes, will be clearly perceived in my work, taking the place of linear counterpoint. When these sound masses collide, the phenomena of penetration or repulsion will seem to occur. Certain transmutations taking place on certain planes will seem to be projected onto other planes, moving at different speeds and at different angles ... We h…
Unexpected Consequences and an Unanticipated Outcome
Music and the materialization of identities
How does music materialize identities? This article argues that music is instructive in conceptualizing the materialization of identity because it opens up new perspectives on issues of materiality, mediation and affect. These perspectives are intimately related in turn to music's plural socialities, which necessitate a novel approach to theorizing the social. Music, it is proposed, demands an analytics that encompasses four planes of social medi…
Listening, Mediation, Event
This paper outlines an approach to listening drawn from the anthropology and sociology of music, arguing that there is a pressing need for comparative empirical studies of listening. I suggest that the terms of the discussion should shift from listening to the broader category of musical experience, in this way allowing questions of the encultured, affective, corporeal and located nature of musical experience to arise in a stronger way than hithe…
The Social and the Aesthetic
This article sets out new methodological principles for the sociology of art, a sub-discipline that it seeks to broaden conceptually by shifting the ground from art to cultural production. This shift suggests the utility of overcoming the boundaries that demarcate the sociology of art from adjacent fields, augmenting the sociological repertoire with reference to anthropology, cultural and media studies, art and cultural history, and the music dis…
Art-Science
In this paper we examine the emergent field of art-science, part of a heterogeneous space of overlapping interdisciplinary practices at the intersection of the arts, sciences and technologies. Art-science is often thought to exemplify Nowotny et al.'s (2001) ‘mode-2’ knowledge production; indeed the institutions supporting art-science invariably claim that art-science contributes to the ‘contextualization of science’ by rendering scientific and t…
For a Relational Musicology
What would contemporary music scholarship look like if it was no longer imprinted with the disciplinary assumptions, boundaries and divisions inherited from the last century? This article proposes that a generative model for future music studies would take the form of a relational musicology. The model is drawn from the author's work; but signs of an incipient relational musicology are found scattered across recent research in musicology, ethnomu…
Logics of interdisciplinarity
This paper interrogates influential contemporary accounts of interdisciplinarity, in which it is portrayed as offering new ways of rendering science accountable to society and/or of forging closer relations between scientific research and innovation. The basis of the paper is an eighteen-month empirical study of three interdisciplinary fields that cross the boundaries between the natural sciences or engineering, on the one hand, and the social sc…
(Im)materiality and sociality
L'article s'adresse a ceux qui s'efforcent d'etudier la notion de propriete intellectuelle dans une perspective anthropologique, faisant reference a une enquete sur la recherche informatique et le developpement en programmation informatique a l'IRCAM de Paris. Dans cette etude, on voit comment le contenu des logiciels, combine a d'autres facteurs resiste a cette image qui voudrait faire des systemes informatiques des technologies de travail auton…
On Musical Mediation
This article develops a theoretical analysis of music and mediation, building on the work of Theodor Adorno, Tia DeNora and Antoine Hennion. It begins by suggesting that Lydia Goehr’s account of the work concept requires such a perspective. Drawing on Alfred Gell’s anthropology of art, the article outlines an approach to mediation that incorporates understandings of music’s social, technological and temporal dimensions. It suggests that music’s m…
Digitising Democracy
Strategy, Positioning and Projection in Digital Television
This article examines the digital televison and interactive strategies of one of Britain’s leading public service broadcasters, Channel Four. They form part of a wider shift in Channel Four’s identity: from a television channel to a cross-platform media company positioned to exploit technological convergence and the expanding media economy. The wider context is one of multiple uncertainties, technological, economic, regulatory and cultural. Chann…
Culture and Consumerism
The authors examine the future of public service broadcasting in the context of current debates about, and commercial pressures on, the BBC. They describe the European Community constraints on public service broadcasting and the need for a clearer definition of such broadcasting, noting that such a definition is not currently provided in UK law. The BBC is also under increasing pressure from fair trading rules derived from competition law, some o…
Anthropology, Kleinian Psychoanalysis, and the Subject in Culture
This essay uses the work of psychoanalyst Melanie Klein to reopen the dialogue between anthropology and psychoanalysis. It argues that Kleinian concepts enhance an anthropology that seeks out both intersubjective and intrasubjective difference and disjuncture, and it demonstrates the uses of major Kleinian concepts for addressing classic anthropological problems, including gender classification and the analysis of persecution in witchcraft and so…
Public Museums, Museum Photography, and the Limits of Reflexivity
This essay gives an interpretation of the first exhibition ever held of photo graphs from the archives of the in-house photographic studios of major public museums. It argues that the photographic images sketch out a rich visual anthropology of public museums as social and cultural institutions; and that this can potentially contribute to an enhanced reflexivity and a cultural poli tics concerning the museums' own sociality and hierarchy, and the…
Logics of interdisciplinarity
This paper interrogates influential contemporary accounts of interdisciplinarity, in which it is portrayed as offering new ways of rendering science accountable to society and/or of forging closer relations between scientific research and innovation. The basis of the paper is an eighteen-month empirical study of three interdisciplinary fields that cross the boundaries between the natural sciences or engineering, on the one hand, and the social sc…
The Social and the Aesthetic
This article sets out new methodological principles for the sociology of art, a sub-discipline that it seeks to broaden conceptually by shifting the ground from art to cultural production. This shift suggests the utility of overcoming the boundaries that demarcate the sociology of art from adjacent fields, augmenting the sociological repertoire with reference to anthropology, cultural and media studies, art and cultural history, and the music dis…
Music and the materialization of identities
How does music materialize identities? This article argues that music is instructive in conceptualizing the materialization of identity because it opens up new perspectives on issues of materiality, mediation and affect. These perspectives are intimately related in turn to music's plural socialities, which necessitate a novel approach to theorizing the social. Music, it is proposed, demands an analytics that encompasses four planes of social medi…
For a Relational Musicology
What would contemporary music scholarship look like if it was no longer imprinted with the disciplinary assumptions, boundaries and divisions inherited from the last century? This article proposes that a generative model for future music studies would take the form of a relational musicology. The model is drawn from the author's work; but signs of an incipient relational musicology are found scattered across recent research in musicology, ethnomu…
Music Technology, Gender, and Class
Music technology undergraduate degree programmes are a relatively new phenomenon in British higher education, situated at the intersection of music, digital technologies, and sound art. Such degrees have exploded in popularity over the past fifteen years. Yet the social and cultural ramifications of this development have not yet been analysed. In looking comparatively at the demographics of both traditional music and music technology degrees, we …
Making Time
One of the most sustained criticisms of Bourdieu's work is its poverty with respect to theorizing time, change, and history. In this light, this article traces out a series of novel paths in the analysis of temporality and history in relation to cultural production, informed by recent work in anthropology, social theory, and (less so) art history. The challenge of developing new perspectives on such matters does not arise solely from critiques of…
Art-Science
In this paper we examine the emergent field of art-science, part of a heterogeneous space of overlapping interdisciplinary practices at the intersection of the arts, sciences and technologies. Art-science is often thought to exemplify Nowotny et al.'s (2001) ‘mode-2’ knowledge production; indeed the institutions supporting art-science invariably claim that art-science contributes to the ‘contextualization of science’ by rendering scientific and t…
Modernist Discourse, Psychic Forms,and Agency
Anthropology, Kleinian Psychoanalysis, and the Subject in Culture
This essay uses the work of psychoanalyst Melanie Klein to reopen the dialogue between anthropology and psychoanalysis. It argues that Kleinian concepts enhance an anthropology that seeks out both intersubjective and intrasubjective difference and disjuncture, and it demonstrates the uses of major Kleinian concepts for addressing classic anthropological problems, including gender classification and the analysis of persecution in witchcraft and so…
Listening, Mediation, Event
This paper outlines an approach to listening drawn from the anthropology and sociology of music, arguing that there is a pressing need for comparative empirical studies of listening. I suggest that the terms of the discussion should shift from listening to the broader category of musical experience, in this way allowing questions of the encultured, affective, corporeal and located nature of musical experience to arise in a stronger way than hithe…
Music, Mediation Theories and Actor-Network Theory
The concept of mediation in relation to music has a rich history and varied meanings. Its most famous proponent, Theodor Adorno, drew his theory of mediation from ‘a Hegelian interpretation of Marx
From Microsound to Vaporwave
Journal Article From Microsound to Vaporwave: Internet-Mediated Musics, Online Methods, and Genre Get access Georgina Born, Georgina Born University of Oxford; email: [email protected]; University of Birmingham; email: [email protected]. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Christopher Haworth Christopher Haworth University of Oxford; email: [email protected]; University of Birmingham…
Culture and Consumerism
The authors examine the future of public service broadcasting in the context of current debates about, and commercial pressures on, the BBC. They describe the European Community constraints on public service broadcasting and the need for a clearer definition of such broadcasting, noting that such a definition is not currently provided in UK law. The BBC is also under increasing pressure from fair trading rules derived from competition law, some o…
Against negation, for a politics of cultural production
Journal Article Against negation, for a politics of cultural production: Adorno, aesthetics, the social Get access Georgina Born Georgina Born Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Screen, Volume 34, Issue 3, Autumn 1993, Pages 223–242, https://doi.org/10.1093/screen/34.3.223 Published: 01 October 1993
Digitising Democracy
Strategy, Positioning and Projection in Digital Television
This article examines the digital televison and interactive strategies of one of Britain’s leading public service broadcasters, Channel Four. They form part of a wider shift in Channel Four’s identity: from a television channel to a cross-platform media company positioned to exploit technological convergence and the expanding media economy. The wider context is one of multiple uncertainties, technological, economic, regulatory and cultural. Chann…
Gender, Creativity and Education in Digital Musics and Sound Art
This special issue examines the politics of gender in relation to higher education, creative practices and historical processes in electronic music, computer music and sound art. The starting point is a summary of research findings on the student demographics associated with the burgeoning of music technology (MT) undergraduate degrees in Britain since the mid-1990s. The findings show a clear bifurcation: the demographics of students taking Briti…
Public Museums, Museum Photography, and the Limits of Reflexivity
This essay gives an interpretation of the first exhibition ever held of photo graphs from the archives of the in-house photographic studios of major public museums. It argues that the photographic images sketch out a rich visual anthropology of public museums as social and cultural institutions; and that this can potentially contribute to an enhanced reflexivity and a cultural poli tics concerning the museums' own sociality and hierarchy, and the…
Women, music, politics, difference
(1992). Women, music, politics, difference: Susan McClary's feminine endings: Music, gender and sexuality. Women: A Cultural Review: Vol. 3, No. 1, pp. 79-86
Against negation, for a politics of cultural production
Journal Article Against negation, for a politics of cultural production: Adorno, aesthetics, the social Get access Georgina Born Georgina Born Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Screen, Volume 34, Issue 3, Autumn 1993, Pages 223–242, https://doi.org/10.1093/screen/34.3.223 Published: 01 October 1993
Rationalizing Culture
Rationalizing Culture. Ircam, Boulez, and the Institutionalization of the Musical Avant-Garde
Rationalizing Culture
Rationalizing Culture
Modernist Discourse, Psychic Forms,and Agency
Anthropology, Kleinian Psychoanalysis, and the Subject in Culture
This essay uses the work of psychoanalyst Melanie Klein to reopen the dialogue between anthropology and psychoanalysis. It argues that Kleinian concepts enhance an anthropology that seeks out both intersubjective and intrasubjective difference and disjuncture, and it demonstrates the uses of major Kleinian concepts for addressing classic anthropological problems, including gender classification and the analysis of persecution in witchcraft and so…
Public Museums, Museum Photography, and the Limits of Reflexivity
This essay gives an interpretation of the first exhibition ever held of photo graphs from the archives of the in-house photographic studios of major public museums. It argues that the photographic images sketch out a rich visual anthropology of public museums as social and cultural institutions; and that this can potentially contribute to an enhanced reflexivity and a cultural poli tics concerning the museums' own sociality and hierarchy, and the…
Culture and Consumerism
The authors examine the future of public service broadcasting in the context of current debates about, and commercial pressures on, the BBC. They describe the European Community constraints on public service broadcasting and the need for a clearer definition of such broadcasting, noting that such a definition is not currently provided in UK law. The BBC is also under increasing pressure from fair trading rules derived from competition law, some o…
Strategy, Positioning and Projection in Digital Television
This article examines the digital televison and interactive strategies of one of Britain’s leading public service broadcasters, Channel Four. They form part of a wider shift in Channel Four’s identity: from a television channel to a cross-platform media company positioned to exploit technological convergence and the expanding media economy. The wider context is one of multiple uncertainties, technological, economic, regulatory and cultural. Chann…
On Musical Mediation
This article develops a theoretical analysis of music and mediation, building on the work of Theodor Adorno, Tia DeNora and Antoine Hennion. It begins by suggesting that Lydia Goehr’s account of the work concept requires such a perspective. Drawing on Alfred Gell’s anthropology of art, the article outlines an approach to mediation that incorporates understandings of music’s social, technological and temporal dimensions. It suggests that music’s m…
Digitising Democracy
(Im)materiality and sociality
L'article s'adresse a ceux qui s'efforcent d'etudier la notion de propriete intellectuelle dans une perspective anthropologique, faisant reference a une enquete sur la recherche informatique et le developpement en programmation informatique a l'IRCAM de Paris. Dans cette etude, on voit comment le contenu des logiciels, combine a d'autres facteurs resiste a cette image qui voudrait faire des systemes informatiques des technologies de travail auton…
Logics of interdisciplinarity
This paper interrogates influential contemporary accounts of interdisciplinarity, in which it is portrayed as offering new ways of rendering science accountable to society and/or of forging closer relations between scientific research and innovation. The basis of the paper is an eighteen-month empirical study of three interdisciplinary fields that cross the boundaries between the natural sciences or engineering, on the one hand, and the social sc…
Listening, Mediation, Event
This paper outlines an approach to listening drawn from the anthropology and sociology of music, arguing that there is a pressing need for comparative empirical studies of listening. I suggest that the terms of the discussion should shift from listening to the broader category of musical experience, in this way allowing questions of the encultured, affective, corporeal and located nature of musical experience to arise in a stronger way than hithe…
The Social and the Aesthetic
This article sets out new methodological principles for the sociology of art, a sub-discipline that it seeks to broaden conceptually by shifting the ground from art to cultural production. This shift suggests the utility of overcoming the boundaries that demarcate the sociology of art from adjacent fields, augmenting the sociological repertoire with reference to anthropology, cultural and media studies, art and cultural history, and the music dis…
Art-Science
In this paper we examine the emergent field of art-science, part of a heterogeneous space of overlapping interdisciplinary practices at the intersection of the arts, sciences and technologies. Art-science is often thought to exemplify Nowotny et al.'s (2001) ‘mode-2’ knowledge production; indeed the institutions supporting art-science invariably claim that art-science contributes to the ‘contextualization of science’ by rendering scientific and t…
For a Relational Musicology
What would contemporary music scholarship look like if it was no longer imprinted with the disciplinary assumptions, boundaries and divisions inherited from the last century? This article proposes that a generative model for future music studies would take the form of a relational musicology. The model is drawn from the author's work; but signs of an incipient relational musicology are found scattered across recent research in musicology, ethnomu…
Music and the materialization of identities
How does music materialize identities? This article argues that music is instructive in conceptualizing the materialization of identity because it opens up new perspectives on issues of materiality, mediation and affect. These perspectives are intimately related in turn to music's plural socialities, which necessitate a novel approach to theorizing the social. Music, it is proposed, demands an analytics that encompasses four planes of social medi…
Introduction – music, sound and space
When new instruments will allow me to write music as I conceive it, the movement of sound-masses, of shifting planes, will be clearly perceived in my work, taking the place of linear counterpoint. When these sound masses collide, the phenomena of penetration or repulsion will seem to occur. Certain transmutations taking place on certain planes will seem to be projected onto other planes, moving at different speeds and at different angles ... We h…
Unexpected Consequences and an Unanticipated Outcome
Music Technology, Gender, and Class
Music technology undergraduate degree programmes are a relatively new phenomenon in British higher education, situated at the intersection of music, digital technologies, and sound art. Such degrees have exploded in popularity over the past fifteen years. Yet the social and cultural ramifications of this development have not yet been analysed. In looking comparatively at the demographics of both traditional music and music technology degrees, we …
Making Time
One of the most sustained criticisms of Bourdieu's work is its poverty with respect to theorizing time, change, and history. In this light, this article traces out a series of novel paths in the analysis of temporality and history in relation to cultural production, informed by recent work in anthropology, social theory, and (less so) art history. The challenge of developing new perspectives on such matters does not arise solely from critiques of…
Gender, Creativity and Education in Digital Musics and Sound Art
This special issue examines the politics of gender in relation to higher education, creative practices and historical processes in electronic music, computer music and sound art. The starting point is a summary of research findings on the student demographics associated with the burgeoning of music technology (MT) undergraduate degrees in Britain since the mid-1990s. The findings show a clear bifurcation: the demographics of students taking Briti…
Sociology (17 works) · Art (16 works) · Music History and Culture (13 works) · Aesthetics (12 works) · Musicology and Musical Analysis (10 works) · Political science (10 works) · Computer Science (9 works) · Diverse Musicological Studies (7 works) · Law (7 works) · Psychology (7 works)