Dr Martin Stokes
Dr Martin Stokes
Tutorial Fellow in Music
Email: Dr Martin Stokes
Teaching Interests
Martin Stokes teaches music in the Faculty of Music, with particular emphasis on ethnomusicology and the anthropology of music.
Research Interests
His research interests lie primarily in broad areas of social and cultural theory as they apply to the study of music. Much of his work has involved the study of the music of the Middle Eastern and Islamic world. He has recently published The Republic of Love: Transformations of Intimacy in Turkish Popular Music, (University of Chicago Press, 2010). He is currently working on an introduction to the Music of the Middle East (to be published by Prentice Hall) and a survey of theoretical developments in the field of ethnomusicology (co-authored by Martin Clayton, to be published by Oxford University Press).
Publications
He has published The Arabesk Debate: Music and Musicians in Modern Turkey (1992), Ethnicity, Identity and Music: The Musical Construction of Place (ed.) (1994) and, most recently, Celtic Modern: Music Making at the Global Fringe (co-edited with Philip Bohlman) (2004)
Other Information
Dr Stokes is an organist and a qanun player.
