Martin Stokes
Biographic Data
| ID | 82886 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Martin Stokes |
| GIVEN NAMES | Martin |
| FAMILY NAME | Stokes |
| SIGNATURE | STOKES M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Plymouth |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6529-1118 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 60 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 250 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 60 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1989 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Enhancing monitoring in protected areas
Crowdsourced data, such as that from mobile fitness apps (MFAs), has the potential to transform tourism research. This opportunity is particularly valuable as tourism to protected areas (PAs) increases, making it more difficult to manage their environmental impacts. However, such data sources come with challenges. Therefore, their representativeness should be carefully evaluated, particularly as their use continues to grow. We use the Paiva Walkw…
Using GPS tracking data from mobile fitness apps to understand user behaviour in protected areas
Protected areas are important environmental conservation sites, but their sustainability depends on effective management to mitigate the negative impacts of nature-based tourism. Data from Mobile fitness apps (MFAs) provide researchers and stakeholders with detailed spatiotemporal information regarding visitor movements, thereby facilitating a comprehensive understanding of visitor behaviour, the implementation of effective monitoring strategies,…
Plio-Quaternary coastal uplift along the western Iberian Margin
This study presents a detailed geomorphological and geochronological analysis of a marine terrace staircase developed into the Peniche Peninsula (Portugal), a rocky headland of Jurassic carbonate bedrock located in the central sector of the Western Iberian passive margin. The marine terrace levels are described morphologically and sedimentologically, but also dated using ESR and U-Series methodologies. The marine terrace staircase comprises six e…
Marine terrace staircases of western Iberia
Afterword
This afterword considers Istanbul as a site of translation (architectural, acoustic, sonic, musical, poetic) – an approach to the city richly suggested in all of the articles in this themed issue. Might we consider the matter of translation in terms of the kinds of (radically opposed) comparative epistemologies that were being developed in Istanbul by Auerbach and Spitzer (principally, but other refugee scholars too, considering the work of Emily…
Andrew Simon. 2022. Media of the Masses
Andrew Simon. 2022. Media of the Masses: Cassette Culture in Modern Egypt. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press. 299 pp. ISBN 9781503629431 (hbk)
Recreational use of protected areas
Managing the rising number of visitors to protected areas (PAs) without compromising their environmental goals is a critical challenge that requires a complete understanding of how and when visitors use these spaces. Georeferenced data from fitness-tracking apps can provide detailed information about the visitor’s spatiotemporal behaviour inside PAs, but its potential is still underexplored. This study uses georeferenced data, from Wikiloc, to an…
Music and Citizenship
Citizenship is a fantasy of political community without others. How is it faring in today’s world of authoritarianism, failed states, and climate crisis? In a world where democratic experiment is, by now, a networked and global proposition? What might we learn from music—and from ethnomusicology? The relationship between the idea of citizenship and music is long standing, but it has not yet been looked at from a perspective informed by postcoloni…
Book forum on Charles Hirschkind, The Feeling of History
Basit Kareem Iqbal and Candace B. LukasikCharles Hirschkind begins his new book, The Feeling of History: Islam, Romanticism, and Andalusia, by stating his argument simply: ‘medieval Muslim Iberia d
On the Beach
How has "the migrant crisis" affected musicology? What "edges" now appear, with what implications for musicology's persistent call to historicize? This article suggests these have been more persistent questions than the current language of "crisis" might suggest. Taking some examples with the ongoing Syrian war as a backdrop, the implications of Mieke Bal's injunction to "remember with" are explored as a route to thinking through the dilemmas of …
Launching the journal, opening the forum
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Music and the political
Τhe following conversation is what was humorously called a “jammin’ article”, which was an attempt to improvise a mostly theoretical dialogue on a variety of themes broadly defining Martin Stokes’ oeuvre until today. It is a sort of “free improvisation” produced in the course of spontaneous and rather intimate dialogic writing, as it developed as a non-prescriptive and open-ended process: there was no preset structure or any sort of detailed disc…
Launching the journal, opening the forum
Anatomy, Age and Origin of an Intramontane Top Basin Surface (Sorbas Basin, Betic Cordillera, SE Spain)
Collisional mountain belts commonly develop intramontane basins from mechanical and isostatic subsidence during orogenic development. These frequently display a relict top surface, evidencing a change interval from basin infilling to erosion often via capture or overspill. Such surfaces provide markers that inform on orogenic growth patterns via climate and base level interplay. Here, we describe the top surface from the Sorbas Basin, a key intra…
Launching the journal, opening the forum
Launching the journal, opening the forum
Ottoman Intimacies, Balkan Musical Realities
Book Review| July 01 2017 Ottoman Intimacies, Balkan Musical Realities Ottoman Intimacies, Balkan Musical Realities. Risto Pekka Pennanen, Pangiotis C. Poulos, and Aspasia Theodosiou, eds. 2013. Helsinki: Foundation of the Finnish Institute at Athens. xxx, 173 pp., figures, references. Paper, $69.90. Martin Stokes Martin Stokes King’s College London Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Ethnomusicology (2017) 61 (2): 368–370.…
Edward Said and Ethnomusicology
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Maureen Jackson. Mixing Musics
This study of Maftirim, a paraliturgical musical suite sung by men in Istanbul synagogues on Saturday afternoons, is a valuable addition to a growing literature on the cultural life of minorities in Ottoman Turkey and the modern Turkish Republic. Music, Maureen Jackson shows, has been vitally important to Jewish community life and to its sense of a past and a future. It also mediates the community's relations with its neighbors, in particular Ist…
Musicology, Anthropology, History
Giuseppe Donizetti Pascià
Muslim Rap, Halal Soaps, and Revolutionary Theater
The Republic of Love
Response to Rice
Research Article| July 01 2010 Response to Rice Martin Stokes Martin Stokes Oxford University Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Ethnomusicology (2010) 54 (2): 339–341. https://doi.org/10.5406/ethnomusicology.54.2.0339 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Martin Stokes; Response to Rice. Ethnomusicology 1 January 2010; 54 (2): 339–341. doi: https://doi.org/10.540…
Field mapping and GIS visualisation of Quaternary river terrace landforms
Please click here to download the map associated with this article. This paper presents the mapping results of a Quaternary river terrace staircase associated with the evolution of the Río Almanzora in SE Spain. Prior to map compilation a formal landform stratigraphy was constructed from remote sensing and field reconnaissance using standard allostratigraphic procedures as outlined by the North American Stratigraphic Commission. The stratigraphic…
Music and the Global Order
Often music is used as a metaphor of global social and cultural processes; it also constitutes an enduring process by and through which people interact within and across cultures. The review explores these processes with reference to an anthropological and ethnomusicological account of globalization that has gathered pace over the last decade. It outlines some of the main ethnographic and historical modes of engagement with persistent neoliberal …
The Arabesk Debate
The Arabesk Debate describes the way in which Turkish musicians discuss, dispute, and attribute meaning to their music. Martin Stokes examines the debate over 'Arabesk', a musical genre popular throughout Turkey. His book is an ethnographic study of urban music-making in Istanbul, focusing on the activities of professional musicians and their audiences in the city. Dr Stokes looks at the Arabesk debate in the context of state cultural politics, I…
Ethnicity, Identity and Music
This book examines the significance of music in the construction of identities and ethnicities, and suggests ways to understand music as social practice. The authors focus on: the role of music in the construction of national and regional identities; the media and 'postmodern identity'; concepts of authenticity; aesthetics; meaning; performance; 'world music'; and the use of music as a focus for discursive evocations of 'place'. The chapters tack…
Islam, the Turkish state and arabesk
The relationship between ideology and popular culture has largely been discussed in the context of developed industrial societies, in which the ideologies that might be considered to have most bearing on society in general and popular culture in particular are capitalism and socialism in the context of specific nationalisms. On the Muslim peripheries of Europe, however, the situation may be different. The appearance of 'Islamic' motifs in Turkish…
Voices and Places
This article examines the ways in which musicians participate in historical knowledge, through an analysis of the spatial metaphors that surround musical experience in two distinct urban locales in Algeria and Turkey. The article proposes an alternative to two approaches which have dominated the sociological and anthropological discussion of music: one which suggests that music simply reproduces social conditions; and another which suggests that …
Music in Human Life
In the Time of Cannibals
Music and Citizenship
Citizenship is a fantasy of political community without others. How is it faring in today’s world of authoritarianism, failed states, and climate crisis? In a world where democratic experiment is, by now, a networked and global proposition? What might we learn from music—and from ethnomusicology? The relationship between the idea of citizenship and music is long standing, but it has not yet been looked at from a perspective informed by postcoloni…
Seeing with Music
Adam Smith and the Dark Nightingale
This article reconsiders sentimentalism in the light of the writings of Adam Smith and the career of Abd al-Halim Hafiz, Egypt's 'Dark Nightingale' and film-star crooner of the 1950s and 60s. It explores competing representations of emotionality, the limits of enchantment, and the contemporary politics of nostalgia and melodrama in Egyptian public culture. Eighteenth-century sentimental theory provides a critical and productive angle on twentieth…
"Musique, identité et "ville-monde
La mondialisation a vu la formation moderne de l'«identité» se complexifier et les débats à la fois politiques et acadé-miques à propos de sa catégorisation s'intensifier. La position centrale de ce concept a récemment fait l'objet de critiques, en anthropologie autant qu'en musicologie: beaucoup suggèrent, de manière convaincante, que nous malmenons notre compréhension de l'égo contemporain et des processus culturels en insistant sur le fait qu'…
Musiques en Fete
The media and reform
Arabesk, a popular genre of Turkish music, is explicitly condemned by the dominant Kemalist political tradition. This critique is frequently cast in terms of an ideological distinction between the forces of a bureaucratic, secular centre and a reactionary, "Islamist" periphery. The former has promoted a reconstructed national folk musical tradition, in opposition to the "oriental" fatalism of Arabesk, associated with the latter. This dualism is h…
Marine terrace staircases of western Iberia
Musique, identité et « ville-monde
La mondialisation a vu la formation moderne de l’«identite» se complexifier et les debats a la fois politiques et acade-miques a propos de sa categorisation s’intensifier. La position centrale de ce concept a recemment fait l’objet de critiques, en anthropologie autant qu’en musicologie: beaucoup suggerent, de maniere convaincante, que nous malmenons notre comprehension de l’ego contemporain et des processus culturels en insistant sur le fait qu’…
The Voice of Egypt
World Music, Politics and Social Change
Music, Fate and State
Şarki and Türkü Texts
Subject Anthropology Cultural Studies Folk, Indigenous, and Traditional Music Collection: Oxford Scholarship Online
Technical Notes
Subject Anthropology Cultural Studies Folk, Indigenous, and Traditional Music Collection: Oxford Scholarship Online
Glossary of Musical Terms
Subject Anthropology Cultural Studies Folk, Indigenous, and Traditional Music Collection: Oxford Scholarship Online
Arabesk and Serna
In arabesk, the description of the hal revolves around the social dislocation of the protagonist from his family and loved ones, provoking a crisis which is both characterized and reinforced by images of drunkenness, weeping, solitude, and an aimless circular movement which is exhausting but achieves nothing. The expression of this state through music is metaphorically equated with burning. We have also noted that the term hal has a meaning in th…
‘Rule, System, and Technique’
Many folk musicians claim that the value of their music lies in the fact that it is free from abstract and arbitrary rules. For Gokalp, ‘Turkish music consists of melodies, unfettered by rule, system, and technique (kaidesiz, usulsuz, fensiz), of sincere songs which express the heart of the Turk’.1 At the same time, rules, systems, and techniques are not only implicitly recognized, but explicitly taught. A way of talking about music as though it …
Arabesk Lyrics and Narratives
When people talk about arabesk they do so in terms of the lyrics of the songs and the films to which they belong. In the texts, ideas and images are compressed into a small number of extremely dense lines, extended by melisma and musical repetition. On their own they have an abstract quality, consisting of a displaced rhetoric of suffering and frustration. Whilst the locus of the texts is unquestionably an urban space, a world of taxis, trains, c…
Makam and Ayak
Subject Anthropology Cultural Studies Folk, Indigenous, and Traditional Music Collection: Oxford Scholarship Online
The Musical Organization of Arabesk
For arabesk musicians, the prime mover in the musical organization of arabesk is inspiration, ilham. Explanations of ilham focus on metaphorical expressions of the emotional states described in the previous chapter. Just as the central figure in the arabesk drama is imaged as a passive victim of fate, so too is the musician powerless before the remote, manipulative, and unpredictable force of ilham. Izham, as lyricists and composers informed me o…
Arabesk
The ethnographic present refers to 25 August 1990, when I attended a Halk Konseri (People’s Concert) featuring Müshim Gürses, one of a series of free events organized for the Gülhane Park festival. The park is a small wooded area on the slopes between the Topkap1 palace and Saray Burnu, the ‘Seraglio Point’, containing a zoo and a number of tea gardens, all of which are packed on summer week ends. The park is a popular destination for afternoon e…
Discovering the Folk and their Music
Folk music in Turkey is considered by its proponents and practitioners to play a specific role in creating a culturally unified and cohesive nation-state. Its practice and performance transforms the individual, transmitting the ideology with which the music is bound up, instilling values of sociality, team-work, competition, and self presentation. It also provides a model of logical, systematic, and rational thinking, a notion which lies at the c…
The Arabesk Debate
The Arabesk Debate describes the way in which Turkish musicians discuss, dispute, and attribute meaning to their music. Martin Stokes examines the debate over 'Arabesk', a musical genre popular throughout Turkey. His book is an ethnographic study of urban music-making in Istanbul, focusing on the activities of professional musicians and their audiences in the city. Dr Stokes looks at the Arabesk debate in the context of state cultural politics, I…
The media and reform
Arabesk, a popular genre of Turkish music, is explicitly condemned by the dominant Kemalist political tradition. This critique is frequently cast in terms of an ideological distinction between the forces of a bureaucratic, secular centre and a reactionary, "Islamist" periphery. The former has promoted a reconstructed national folk musical tradition, in opposition to the "oriental" fatalism of Arabesk, associated with the latter. This dualism is h…
Islam, the Turkish state and arabesk
The relationship between ideology and popular culture has largely been discussed in the context of developed industrial societies, in which the ideologies that might be considered to have most bearing on society in general and popular culture in particular are capitalism and socialism in the context of specific nationalisms. On the Muslim peripheries of Europe, however, the situation may be different. The appearance of 'Islamic' motifs in Turkish…
World Music, Politics and Social Change
Music in Human Life
Musiques en Fete
Sardinian Chronicles
Ethnicity, Identity and Music
This book examines the significance of music in the construction of identities and ethnicities, and suggests ways to understand music as social practice. The authors focus on: the role of music in the construction of national and regional identities; the media and 'postmodern identity'; concepts of authenticity; aesthetics; meaning; performance; 'world music'; and the use of music as a focus for discursive evocations of 'place'. The chapters tack…
Voices and Places
This article examines the ways in which musicians participate in historical knowledge, through an analysis of the spatial metaphors that surround musical experience in two distinct urban locales in Algeria and Turkey. The article proposes an alternative to two approaches which have dominated the sociological and anthropological discussion of music: one which suggests that music simply reproduces social conditions; and another which suggests that …
In the Time of Cannibals
Turkish Urban Popular Music
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Music of the Ottoman Court
The Voice of Egypt
The Steelband Movement
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