{"id":73534,"date":"2023-08-29T15:30:54","date_gmt":"2023-08-29T19:30:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cas\/?post_type=profile&#038;p=73534"},"modified":"2025-06-27T12:58:09","modified_gmt":"2025-06-27T16:58:09","slug":"jacqueline-georgis","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cas\/profile\/jacqueline-georgis\/","title":{"rendered":"Jacqueline Georgis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Areas of Research\/Interest<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Luso-African culture and music; African popular music; migration; electronic dance music; urban youth culture<\/p>\n<p><strong>Biography<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>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 &amp; Black Diaspora Studies and the Musicology &amp; Ethnomusicology Department.<\/p>\n<p>She is currently working on a book on the late Cape Verdean singer, Ces\u00e1ria \u00c9vora, tentatively titled <em>Ces\u00e1ria \u00c9vora\u2019s Miss Perfumado,<\/em> which is under contract with Bloomsbury Publishing\u2019s 33 1\/3 African Popular Music Series. Her second book project, <em>Batida Nights: Luso-African Electronic Dance Music in Lisbon<\/em>, examines questions of cultural hybridity and transnational exchange within the Lusophone-Atlantic. Through the lens of \u201cbatida,\u201d a contemporary African-inspired electronic dance music created in Lisbon, Portugal, <em>Batida Nights<\/em> 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\u00a0<em>Sonic Signatures\u00a0<\/em>(2023)<em>,\u00a0<\/em>an edited volume on the phenomenon of migrant and mobile music-making at night.<\/p>\n<p>When she\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20263,"template":"","profile_type":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/73534"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20263"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/73534\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85758,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/73534\/revisions\/85758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"profile_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile_type?post=73534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}