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Emeritus Professor Martin Clayton

FBA


Biography

Martin Clayton is Emeritus Professor in Ethnomusicology at Durham University, and a Fellow of the British Academy. 

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). 

Professor Clayton was a Leverhulme Trust Major Research Fellow (2023-26). He led a strand of the EU-funded project EnTimeMent (2019-22), directed a major research project, 'Interpersonal Entrainment in Music Performance', funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC, 2016-18). He previously directed the 'Experience and meaning in music performance' research project: the co-authored book of the same name was published by OUP in October 2013. 

Please note: Professor Clayton is not in a position to take on any new PhD supervisions, or to mentor postdoctoral projects at Durham University.

Research interests

  • Theory and analysis of musical rhythm and metre.
  • Musical entrainment and embodiment.
  • Hindustani (North Indian) classical music in performance.
  • Rhythm and entrainment in traditional Japanese music.
  • Audiovisual data and multimodal analysis

Publications

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Edited book

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