International award for Oxford music expert

Arts 08 Dec 10 An Oxford expert in the music of Turkish, Arab and Islamic cultures has won one of the world's most prestigious prizes in music. Dr Martin Stokes, Lecturer in Ethnomusicology at the University of Oxford, is the 2010 winner of the Dent Medal, awarded by the Royal Musical Association for an outstanding body of academic work or a single large-scale study. Dr Stokes has authored and edited several books but is not certain which piece of work earned him the prize. 'I don't think I can have won it for any one book,' he says. 'I imagine it's just for plugging away all these years.' Ethnomusicology is the social and cultural study of music. 'It is about reconciling understanding music as an aesthetic object with understanding it as a social and cultural process,' Dr Stokes explains. Hundreds of academics attend ethnomusicology conferences in northern Europe and several thousand more in the US.
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