Martin Stokes

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Martin Stokes is Associate Professor of Ethnomusicology and director of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Chicago. With a Ph.D. from the University of Oxford (1989), he studies music with a particular emphasis on the contemporary Middle East. He is author of The Arabesk Debate: Music and Musicians in Modern Turkey (1992), editor of Ethnicity, Identity and Music: The Musical Construction of Place (1997), and co-editor of Nationalism, Minorities and Diasporas: Identities and Rights in the Middle East (1996).