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The Musicology Colloquium presents a talk by Georgina Born Georgina Born, Professor of Anthropology and Music of University College London, will discuss The Dynamics of Pluralism in Contemporary Digital Art Music. Abstract: Academic electroacoustic music, and specifically acousmatic music, the modernist lineage that came to prominence from the 1970s in universities in the UK, Canada and Europe, has been both hegemonic and waning for around twenty years. In this presentation, based on a chapter from the book Music and Digital Media: A Planetary Anthropology, Georgina explores this state of affairs through an ethnography of innovative British university trainings in computer music, digital art music, sound art and related scenes –– trainings she gathers under the term ‘music technology degrees’. The aim is to probe the burgeoning pluralism of digital art music in the UK as this presses on contemporary music writ large. Georgina’s fieldwork focused on three leading British a

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