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Professsor Martin Clayton
Martin Clayton is Professor in Ethnomusicology at the Open University (OU). He studied at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) in London, where he obtained degrees in Music and Hindi (BA, 1988) and Ethnomusicology (PhD, 1993). His research interests include Hindustani (North Indian) classical music, rhythmic analysis, comparative musicology and early field recordings, British-Asian music and Western music in India. He has taught a wide range of ethnomusicological courses at numerous other UK universities, besides contributing to OU teaching materials, and worked as Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of Chicago. He is a member of the Music sub-panel for the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise. Professor Clayton is currently director of the "Experience and meaning in music performance" research project, which is funded by the Arts and Humanities Award Council. He is also co-organiser of a British Academy-funded international network dedicated to the study of entrainment in music, with Dr Ian Cross (University of Cambridge) and Professor Udo Will (Ohio State University). Martin is also currently
From 1995-2003 he was chair of the Musics and Cultures Research Group, based at the OU.
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