DAVID BORGO is Associate Professor of Music at UC San Diego. He has a B.M. degree in Jazz Studies from Indiana University and M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in Ethnomusicology from UCLA. David won first prize at the International John Coltrane Festival (1994) and he has performed widely both domestically and internationally, including featured performances in Sweden, Amsterdam, Armenia, Hong Kong, and Macau. He has released five CDs and one DVD as a leader and his book, Sync or Swarm: Improvising Music in a Complex Age won the Alan Merriam Prize in 2006 from the Society for Ethnomusicology for the most distinguished book published during the previous year. David’s other scholarly work appears in Jazz Perspectives, Black Music Research Journal, American Music, Journal of American History, Journal of Consciousness Studies, Parallax, and Open Space.