Department of Music Research Seminar, Martin Stokes

Issues of Love and Justice in Music

Martin Stokes is 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). He was a Howard Foundation Fellow at the Chicago Humanities Institute in 2002-3. He has been a visiting professor at Bogazici University in Istanbul on two occasions, and currently holds an honorary professorship in the Department of Arts and Cultural Studies at the University of Copenhagen. In 2013 he will be giving the Bloch Lectures at the University of California, Berkeley.