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Professor MARTIN STOKES, MA, DPhil (Oxon)
Martin Stokes taught at the Queens University of Belfast (1989-1997) and the University of Chicago (1997-2007) before joining the faculty at Oxford in 2007, where he is University Lecturer in Ethnomusicology and Tutorial Fellow at St. John's College.
Martin is an ethnomusicologist with a particular interest in social and cultural theory. He has written extensively about various aspects of ethnomusicological history and theory. A recent article, 'Music and the Global Order' (Annual Reviews in Anthropology 33, 2004), was a winner of the Jaap Kunst Prize in 2005, awarded by the Society for Ethnomusicology. His most recent book 'The Republic of Love: Cultural Intimacy in Turkish Popular Music', has just been published by the University of Chicago Press (2010).
He has, over the years, been principle supervisor for some fourteen completed PhD/DPhil dissertations, ranging from studies of Korean 'comfort women' and their music, to trance cults in Tunisia, to the English Folk Music revival. At undergraduate level he teaches The Social and Cultural Study of Music, and various specialist courses based on current research. He is also a performing musician, playing qanun in ensembles that have performed Middle Eastern music at major venues in the United States and Europe. He started life as an organ scholar, and still has an active interest in western music performance.
Publications
For a full list of publications, please see separate page.
Contact Details
Martin Stokes
Faculty of Music
St Aldate's
Oxford OX1 1DB
01865 276126
martin.stokes@music.ox.ac.uk