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Martin Clayton
Publications

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Forthcoming

“The social and personal functions of music in cross-cultural perspective” In Susan Hallam, Ian Cross and Michael Thaut, eds, Oxford Handbook of Music Psychology.

“Local practice, global network: guitarists, India and the West”. In Richard Wolf, ed. Theorizing the local: Music, practice and experience in South Asia and beyond. New York: Oxford University Press.

(with Gina Fatone, Laura Leante, and Matthew Rahaim), “Music and Gesture as Cross-Modal Experience”, in: Anthony Gritten and Elaine King (eds.), Music and Gesture II, Aldershot: Ashgate.

Publications (text)

“Toward an ethnomusicology of sound experience”. In Henry Stobart, ed. The New (Ethno)musicologies. Lanham, Maryland: Scarecrow Press (2008), pp.135-169. ISBN 0-8108-6101-1.

Music, words, and voice: A reader (ed.). Manchester: Manchester University Press (2007). Follow this link to find out more about the book.

“Time, gesture and attention in a khyal performance”, Asian Music 38/2 (2007), pp.71-96. ISSN 0044-9202. Follow this link for the Online Annexe [including video clip and pdf of the article].

Music and Orientalism in the British Empire, 1780s to 1940s: Portrayal of the East. Clayton, Martin & Zon, Bennett, eds. Aldershot: Ashgate (2007). ISBN 978-0-7546-5604-3
Follow this link to find out more about the book

'Musical Renaissance and its Margins in England and India, 1874–1914', in Music and Orientalism in the British Empire, 1780s to 1940s: Portrayal of the East (see above), pp.71-93

Music, time and place: Essays in comparative musicology. Delhi: B. R. Rhythms. (2007) ISBN 81-88827-06-1. Follow this link to find out more about the book. Items below with ** next to them are reprinted in this volume.

"Observing entrainment in music performance: video-based observational analysis of Indian musicians’ tanpura playing and beat marking". Musicae Scientiae 11/1 (2007), pp.27-60. Follow this link for the Online Annexe [including video clip and pdf of the article]

"Communication in Indian raga performance". In Dorothy Miell, David Hargreaves, and Raymond MacDonald, eds. Musical Communication, Oxford: Oxford University Press (2005), pp.361-381. ISBN 0-19-852936-8.

"In time with the music: the concept of entrainment and its significance for ethnomusicology" European Meetings in Ethnomusicology 11 (ESEM Counterpoint 1), (2005), pp.3-75. (with Rebecca Sager and Udo Will) Download 2004 pre-print PDF version (940 KB)

The cultural study of music: a critical introduction. (ed. with Trevor Herbert and Richard Middleton) New York: Routledge (2003) ISBN 0-415-93845-7. Follow this link to find out more about the book.

"Comparing music, comparing musicology" in The cultural study of music: a critical introduction (see above), pp.57-68. **

"Teaching Indian music at a distance: a perspective from the UK", Journal of the Indian Musicological Society Vol. 33 (2002), pp.36-41. ISSN 0251-012X.

"Rock to Raga: the many lives of the Indian guitar" in Andrew Bennett and Kevin Dawe, eds. Guitar Cultures, Oxford: Berg (2001), pp.179-208. ISBN 1 85973 434 0. **

Music and Meaning (ed.). Special issue of British Journal of Ethnomusicology, vol. 10 part 1 (2001) ISSN 0968-1221.

"Introduction: towards a theory of musical meaning (in India and elsewhere)" in Music and Meaning (see above), pp. 1-18.**

Time in Indian Music: rhythm, metre and form in North Indian rag performance, Oxford: Oxford University Press (2000) ISBN 0 19 816686 9 (includes CD).

"A. H. Fox Strangways and the Music of Hindostan: revisiting historical field recordings" Journal of the Royal Musical Association 124 (1999), pp. 86-118. ISSN 0269 0403.
Audio examples to accompany this paper are now available online. **

"You can't fuse yourself: observations on contemporary British-Asian music" East European Meetings in Ethnomusicology 5 (1998), pp. 73-87. ISSN 1221-9711. **

"Le metre et le tal dans la musique de l'Inde du Nord" Cahiers de Musiques Traditionelles 10 (1997), pp.169-189. Translated by Georges Goormaghtigh. ISBN 2- 8257-0579-9. (An English version of this paper is now available online.) **

"Free rhythm: ethnomusicology and the study of music without metre" Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies 59/2 (1996), pp.323-332. ISSN 0041 **

"Ethnographic wax cylinders at the British Library National Sound Archive" British Journal of Ethnomusicology 5 (1996), pp.67-92. ISSN 0968-1221. **

"It never rains here in April... Filming music in Pune" India Magazine, October 1996.

"Two gat forms for the sitar: a case study in rhythmic analysis" British Journal of Ethnomusicology 2 (1993), pp.75-98. ISSN 0968 1221. **

Publications (web)

Editor, proceedings of Music Studies and Cultural Difference conference, published on OU web site (1997).

Publications (video)

Two videos with accompanying booklets for OU Worldwide, c. 45 minutes each (1999). (Follow the links below for full details.) PDF files of the booklets are now available from this site (you will need the free Adobe Reader to read these).

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Khyal: North Indian classical singing,
OU Worldwide ETHNO VC1
(featuring Veena Sahasrabuddhe, centre)

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Wayang Golék: Performing arts of Sunda (West Java),
OU Worldwide ETHNO VC2
(featuring Pa Otong Rasta, centre, and Atik Rasta)

If you would like to read more about Sundanese gamelan music, read Simon Cook's Guide to Sundanese Music (1992) [PDF file, 5.8 MB].

OU materials on OpenLearn

You can view related material on the OpenLearn website, which gives free access to course materials from The Open University. These include a performance of Sundanese gamelan music, a wayang golék performance and an introduction to khyal singing.

Relevant video clips are both embedded in the OpenLearn material and accessible separately via YouTube:
Khyal: (performance - first of three parts)
(demonstration - first of three parts)
Wayang Golek.

Publications (radio)

Artworks: The Raj 50 Years On. Interview with Nitin Sawhney. Radio 4 broadcast. 30 minutes (July 1997).

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