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Dr MARK DOFFMAN, MA (Sheffield), PhD (Open)
Dr Mark Doffman is Research Fellow on the AHRC funded project ‘Creative Practice in Contemporary Concert Music', a study led by Professor Eric Clarke. This three year project is looking at collaborative work between contemporary composers and performers, situating current practices within a socio-historic framework but also examining the detail of such practices through the notion of distributed creativity.
Prior to his work at Oxford, Mark was a full time researcher in the Sociology Department at the Open University investigating the working lives of black British jazz musicians. Mark's research interests lie around the psycho-social dynamics of musical interaction, musical time and its meanings, jazz and related musics of the Black Atlantic, the embodied musician and musical creativity.
Mark continues to perform as a jazz drummer; his performance schedule includes weekly work at The Spin Jazz Club in Oxford, regular festival/concert dates with Sir Willard White, gigs with Big Colors Big Band and other freelance work in the South East.
Contact Details
Dr Mark Doffman
Faculty of Music [Humanities Division]
37A St Giles
Oxford
Telephone: 01865 615341