Dr Tenley Martin, Senior Lecturer

Dr Tenley Martin

Senior Lecturer

Dr Tenley Martin is a senior lecturer in Music, percussionist, and ethnomusicologist. Her research, which is ethnographic and practice-led, explores music globalisation, as well as music's effectiveness as a mechanism for individual and societal wellbeing.

Martin's work has previously examined how music cultures travel and are re-imagined in new locales. She currently is researching how community music and outreach can be effective in promoting social cohesion, well-being, and language skills amongst multicultural communities and people experiencing displacement in Northern England.

Martin's PhD research (now a book) explored the travels and connections of flamenco scenes, as well as how amateur practitioners are at the heart of it's globalisation. Her current research includes collaborations with Musicians Without Borders to deliver a training series for local community musicians. Her other research project is The Bradford Dhol Project, which investigates how the Punjabi dhol drum can be used as a cross-cultural cohesion mechanism.

Martin is an active percussion performer with specialising on unusual instruments and set-ups across a wide variety of performance contexts. She has particular specialties in Latin, orchestral, new music, and solo percussion repertoire.

Current Teaching

  • BA (Hons) Music Performance and Production
  • MA Popular Music in Culture

Research Interests

  • Community Music
  • Music Outreach
  • Applied Ethnomusicology
  • The musical instrument as a cross-cultural tool
  • Music and globalisation/migration
  • Spanish music culture
  • British folk music
  • Percussion performance practice

Dr Tenley Martin, Senior Lecturer

Ask Me About

  1. Globalisation
  2. Migration
  3. Community
  4. Culture
  5. Diversity
  6. Equality and inclusion
  7. Ethnicity
  8. Leisure
  9. Music
  10. Peace
  11. Sociology
  12. Wellbeing