Irina Cvijanović is a PhD candidate at the IPP «Performance and Media Studies» at the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz (Germany). Specializing on ethnomusicology, she completed master studies at the Faculty of Music in Belgrade, with a thesis based on characteristics of ballad songs in South-Eastern Serbia. From 2004 to 2012 she was working as the Editor of musical shows at the Third program of Radio Belgrade. As one of the founders and current President of Interdisciplinary Society of Ethnomusicologists in Serbia, she organized several events dedicated to music and culture of minority communities that live in Serbia. Currently she is working on her PhD project related to the question(s) of authenticity in Serbian electronic dance music at the turn of the centuries.