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Georgina Born is professor of anthropology and music at University College London. From 2010 to 2021, she was professor of music and anthropology, Oxford University, and from 2006 to 2010 professor of sociology, anthropology and music, Cambridge University. Earlier she had a professional life as a musician in experimental rock, jazz and improvised music. Visiting professorships include Bloch Professor of Music, UC Berkeley (2014); Schulich Distinguished Professor in Music, McGill University (2015); Visiting Professor, Schools of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, UC Irvine (2019-20, 2023-24); Professor II, Musicology, University of Oslo (2014-19); Visiting Professor, Aarhus University (2017); and Global Scholar in Music, Princeton University (2020-22). Her awards include the Dent Medal of the Royal Musical Association (2007), a Fellowship of the British Academy (2014), an OBE “for services to anthropology, musicology and higher education” (2016), and the Guido Adler Prize of the International Musicological Society (2024). She currently directs the ERC-funded research program “Music and Artificial Intelligence: Building Critical Interdisciplinary Studies.”

Andrew J. Eisenberg is an ethnographer specializing in music and sonic culture, with a focus on urban East Africa. He is associate professor of music at NYU Abu Dhabi, where he co-directs the Music and Sound Cultures (MaSC) research lab and as global network associate professor of music at NYU New York. From 2011 to 2013, he was a postdoctoral research associate with Georgina Born’s European Research Council-funded project, “Music, Digitisation, Mediation,” at Oxford University. In 2021, he was a fellow of the Bayreuth Academy of Advanced African Studies. His first book, Sounds of Other Shores: The Musical Poetics of Identity on Kenya’s Swahili Coast, was published by Wesleyan University Press in 2024.