Principal Investigator

Bio

Martin Stokes is the King Edward Professor of Music at King’s College London. He studied first music, then social anthropology at Oxford. He taught at The Queen’s University of Belfast (1989-1997), The University of Chicago (1997-2007) and Oxford University (2007-2012) before coming to KCL. He has been a visiting professor at Boğaziçi University in Istanbul at the Department of Sociology on two occasions. In 2013 he gave the Bloch Lectures at the University of California, Berkeley, the Distinguished Lecture Series at the Institute of Musical Research at the University of London (published as Music and Citizenship, OUP 2023) in 2017, and the Anthropology of Music Lecture Series at the University of Mainz in 2024. He was Leverhulme Senior Fellow between 2019-2022.

Publications

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