Martin Stokes

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Martin Stokes is a Lecturer in Ethnomusicology at the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom where he is also Fellow and Tutor in Music at St John's College.

Dr Stokes obtained his DPhil (Ph.D.) from the University of Oxford (1989). He currently studies music and music theory with a particular emphasis on the contemporary Middle East. He returned to Oxford in 2007, having been at the University of Chicago, where he achieved the rank of Associate Professor of Ethnomusicology in the Department of Music, since 1997 and previously in Northern Ireland. He served as the Administrative Director of the Middle East Ensemble, Javanese Gamelan and the World Music Concert series during his tenure at the University of Chicago. He also filled the role of Director of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Chicago from 2003-2007.

[edit] Published Works

  • The Arabesk Debate: Music and Musicians in Modern Turkey (1992).
  • Ethnicity, Identity and Music: The Musical Construction of Place (1997) editor.
  • Nationalism, Minorities and Diasporas: Identities and Rights in the Middle East (1996) co-editor.
  • "Music and the Global Order" (2004).[1]
  • "Musical Cosmopolitanism" (2007).[2]


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