Areas of Research/Interest

Luso-African culture and music; African popular music; migration; electronic dance music; urban youth culture

Biography

Jacqueline (Lin) Georgis is an ethnomusicologist with research interests in the music cultures of the Luso-African world; African popular music; migration; electronic dance music; and urban youth culture. At Boston University, she served as a Society of Fellows postdoctoral scholar having affiliations with African American & Black Diaspora Studies and the Musicology & Ethnomusicology Department.

She is currently working on a book on the late Cape Verdean singer, Cesária Évora, tentatively titled Cesária Évora’s Miss Perfumado, which is under contract with Bloomsbury Publishing’s 33 1/3 African Popular Music Series. Her second book project, Batida Nights: Luso-African Electronic Dance Music in Lisbon, examines questions of cultural hybridity and transnational exchange within the Lusophone-Atlantic. Through the lens of “batida,” a contemporary African-inspired electronic dance music created in Lisbon, Portugal, Batida Nights traces the roots and development of Luso-African music in Lisbon from the mid-20th century to today, investigating the ways in which local producers, DJs, and record label managers have created alternative spaces of Afro-diasporic cultural expression and visibility. You can read her work in Sonic Signatures (2023), an edited volume on the phenomenon of migrant and mobile music-making at night.

When she’s not teaching or doing research, Lin enjoys making music! As a classically trained cellist, Lin has been a member of various orchestras, from the Orchestra Lamoureux in Paris to local orchestras in Boston, including the Apollo Ensemble of Boston.