Martin Stokes urges us to regard citizenship as a fundamentally contested concept, whose diverse articulations are variously felt, signified, enacted, and mediated through musical practice. By surveying a wide range of theoretical perspectives, and through contemporary case studies that weave between bicycles, football crowds, and city parks, Stokes offers a landmark statement of pressing relevance to anyone concerned with music's social roles.
Martin Stokes is an ethnomusicologist specializing in the music of Europe and the Middle East, with an emphasis on Turkey and Egypt. He has taught at The Queen's University of Belfast, The University of Chicago, Oxford University, and King's College London. His books include The Arabesk Debate: Music and Musicians in Modern Turkey, Ethnicity, Identity and Music: The Musical Construction of Place, and The Republic of Love: Cultural Intimacy in Turkish Popular Music. He is a Fellow of the British Academy.
