« Ma responsabilité, c'est d'oser. » Un entretien avec Georgina Born

International audienceGeorgina Born is Professor of Music and Anthropology at Oxford University. Her work brilliantly combines ethnographic and theoretical writings on music, media, and cultural production, and has had a major influence on the way music is studied today. Her specific approach is reflected in the work of the research program she now leads at Oxford: “Music, Digitisation, Mediation: Toward Interdisciplinary Music Studies” (MusDig). Interdisciplinarity has been a keystone of her research right from the outset, and was even the object of specific attention in recent years.1 This interview was conducted in March 2015, when Georgina Born was at the Ehess in Paris for a roundtable dedicated to her “Relational Musicology”. In this extensive, wide-ranging discussion, we retrace the origins of two of her major ethnographic studies, at Ircam and the BBC, and delve into how she developed her specific, interdisciplinary methodology. She makes a convincing case for reading outside disciplinary borders, and discusses how her research has changed as she has become more established. Her critics are addressed, and the interview ends with a glance to future projects, which aim to bring together the various threads her research has explored over the years.Dans cet entretien, Georgina Born revient sur les origines de deux de ses grandes études ethnographiques, à l’Ircam et à la BBC. Elle retrace la manière dont elle a développé sa méthodologie originale et interdisciplinaire. Elle défend avec conviction la nécessité des lectures qui débordent les frontières disciplinaires et réfléchit sur les inflexions de sa recherche depuis qu’elle est mieux reconnue. Elle répond à ses critiques et clôt l’entretien en évoquant les projets à venir, qui tenteront de rassembler les fils conducteurs de son travail