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The Dent Medal

THE Dent Medal, in memory of Edward J. Dent, is awarded by the Royal Musical Association annually to recipients selected for their outstanding contribution to musicology, from a list of candidates drawn up by the Council of the Association and the Directorium of the International Musicological Society. For 2010 the Dent Medal has been awarded to MARTIN STOKES, University Lecturer in the Faculty of Music at Oxford and Fellow and Tutor of St John’s College (where he studied as an undergraduate). He taught at Queen’s University, Belfast, from 1989 to 1997 and at the University of Chicago from 1997 to 2007. In a series of books and articles over the past two decades Martin Stokes has helped to shape the face of modern ethnomusicology. His work is marked by breadth of learning and sophistication of understanding. The value of his research has been recognized for its promotion of popular music within the scope of ethnomusicology, a discipline in which it had previously been relatively unrepresented. His article ‘The Media and Reform: The Saz and Elektrosaz in Urban Turkish Folk Music’ (published in British Journal of Ethnomusicology , 1 (1992)), a study centred on the long-necked Turkish lute (an instrument which he himself plays), begins by summoning up the ‘highly critical perspectives’ on the media found in Adorno, and proceeds via Walter Benjamin and others writing on popular culture to the more recent arguments of Richard Middleton and Philip Tagg for a reconfiguration of analytical techniques to encompass non-canonic repertory, an approach which Stokes sees as now well established in popular-music studies. Among the important features noted by reviewers of Stokes’s publications is his familiarity not only with Western writings but also with those of Turkish scholars, as demonstrated for instance in his monograph The Arabesk Debate: Music and Musicians in Modern Turkey (Oxford, 1992). The book, the product of extensive fieldwork (grounded in what the author called his ‘experience as a somewhat ambiguous participant in Turkish family life’), was welcomed critically for its wide range of reference, taking in sources from anthropology and Middle Eastern studies as well as ethnomusicology and popular-music studies. Besides bringing perspectives from other disciplines to bear on music, Stokes is credited with helping to situate music more firmly within the discipline of anthropology, notably in his edited volume Ethnicity, Identity and Music: The Musical Construction of Place (published by Berg in the Ethnic Identities series, 1994). He also co-edited, with Philip Bohlman, Celtic Modern: Music Making at the Global Fringe (Scarecrow Press, 2004). In 2005 his article ‘Music and the Global Order’, published in Annual Reviews in Anthropology , 33 (2004), was awarded the Jaap Kunst Prize by the Society for Ethnomusicology. Most recently he has published a further monograph, The Republic of Love: Transformations of Intimacy in Turkish Popular Music (University of Chicago Press, 2010), which considers the careers of three popular musicians in the light of Turkish ideas of love. He is currently working on an