Martin Stokes is Associate Professor of Ethnomusicology and director of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Chicago. With a Ph.D. from the University of Oxford (1989), he studies music with a particular emphasis on the contemporary Middle East. He is author of The Arabesk Debate: Music and Musicians in Modern Turkey (1992), editor of Ethnicity, Identity and Music: The Musical Construction of Place (1997), and co-editor of Nationalism, Minorities and Diasporas: Identities and Rights in the Middle East (1996). Ethnomusicology (from the Greek ethnos = nation and mousike = music), formerly comparative musicology, is the study of music in its cultural context, cultural musicology. ... The Center for Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Chicago is a National Resource Center for the study of a region extending from Morocco in the West to Kazakhstan in the East. ... The University of Chicago is a private university located principally in the Hyde Park neighborhood of Chicago. ... The University of Oxford (usually abbreviated as Oxon. ... A map showing countries commonly considered to be part of the Middle East The Middle East is a region comprising the lands around the southern and eastern parts of the Mediterranean Sea, a territory that extends from the eastern Mediterranean Sea to the Persian Gulf. ...