Jonathan Stock

I am Professor of Music and former Head of Department of Music and former Head of School of Music and Theatre at UCC. An ethnomusicologist specialising in the music of East Asia, particularly China, my work is based on fieldwork in Shanghai, Taiwan and Northern England as well as the hsitory, theory and practice of ethnomusicology. Among other topics, I have researched the transformation of Chinese traditions into "national" music in the modern era, music in everyday life among the Bunun Indigenous people in Taiwan, leadership in English music sessions, world music in Sci-Fi and fantasy screen media, Chinese popular music, fieldwork methods, and the history of ethics in ethnomusicology. I am additionally interested in applied ethnomusicology, music education, musical analysis, and the global history and theory of ethnomusicology.

I completed my PhD at the Queen’s University of Belfast and was a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow and then Lecturer at the University of Durham, before moving to Sheffield to found a new programme in ethnomusicology, where I served as Lecturer, Reader and then Professor of Ethnomusicology. From 2011-12, I was Associate Dean for Research, Sydney Conservatorium of Music, University of Sydney. I moved to UCC in 2012. I have acted as a UK Arts and Humanities Research Council panel chair (Music, Drama and the Performing Arts; Beyond Text Special Theme Commissioning Panel; and Annual Postgraduate Awards Panel). I have been editor of several journals, including The World of Music and Ethnomusicology Forum.

I have been primary supervisor for 20 successfully completed PhDs (secondary supervisor for another 12), 12 research masters and 33 taught masters. Many of these concerned music in China, Taiwan or England, with several others focused on Iran, India, Korea, Cyprus and Malta. Most were ethnographic studies but others involved approaches from arts practice (including composing and performing), historical musicology, music education or music analysis. I am currently primary supervisor for 14 PhD students and co-supervisor for another 6. Their research topics include music in China, India, Italy, Ireland, USA, Mexico, and Cyprus and they embrace a wide range of (inter)disciplinary approaches and emphases, from historical subjects to contemporary expressions and from localised traditions to global trends.

ethnomusicology, applied ethnomusicology, music of China, music of Taiwan, music of the overseas Chinese, English traditional music, music education, music analysis