CfA: Analytical Approaches to Music of South Asia
CfA: Analytical Approaches to Music of South Asia
Deadline: 15.05.2022
We are excited to announce a new multi-disciplinary online journal, Analytical Approaches to Music of South Asia (AAMSA). It is sponsored by the International Foundation for the Theory and Analysis of World Musics (https://iftawm.org/), which is itself a research unit in the Barry S. Brook Center for Music Research and Documentation at the City University of New York Graduate Center.
We invite contributions relating to any music of South Asia or the diaspora, past or present. Contributions should address questions relating to the realities of musical sound, performance, repertoires and systems, and should analyse music-related data critically and systematically. Within this objective we are open to the widest possible range of subject matter and methodologies, including: quantitative and qualitative approaches; transcription and analysis of performance or notated repertoires; comparative analysis of specific items, performances, or styles; mathematical approaches and computational analysis; evidence for the history of theory and performance; linguistic and cognitive approaches; organological and iconographical research; processes of composition and improvisation; relationships between music and dance, gesture, or the visual arts; soundscape analysis; etc. The music analysed may be traditional or contemporary, popular or classical, folk, tribal, religious, film, jazz etc. Meta-analyses, considering the implications of particular analytical approaches and their social, disciplinary, historical, ethnographic, colonial etc. contexts, will be welcome.
Contributions may be submitted in the form of written texts, and/or non-text formats such as video presentations, annotated performances, computer visualisations etc. They will be published in English, but authors are welcome to add a summary in an appropriate South Asian language. Any system of music representation that adequately supports the chosen analytical approach may be used, including sargam-based, staff-based, and graphic systems, whether manually or automatically generated, and authors are encouraged to combine any non-sargam system with sargam. Audio and video examples may be incorporated, provided any necessary permissions have been obtained by the author. Guidelines for authors can be found on the journal's website: https://southasia.iftawm.org/ (currently under revision), and authors are encouraged to contact the editors to discuss potential submissions.
It is proposed to publish an inaugural issue in Autumn/Fall 2022. After this, contributions will appear on a rolling basis: that is, each contribution will be published when ready; published contributions will be collected into a volume at the end of each calendar year. Thanks to the sponsorship of IFTAWM, the journal will be fully Open Access (platinum), with no charge for publication or access. Contributions deemed potentially suitable for the journal will be anonymously peer reviewed.
Articles should be between 5,000 and 12,000 words in length, including Bibliography, footnotes, captions and appendices. Audio-visual presentations should not be more than 30 min. in length. All submissions should be accompanied by an abstract of 200–300 words and a list of 4–8 keywords. For publication in the inaugural issue, contributions would need to be submitted by the end of Sunday 15 May 2022, to managingeditor @ southasia.iftawm.org.
AAMSA is committed to inclusivity and diversity of authorship, particularly welcomes contributions from under-represented groups, and aims to promote dialogue between scholars within and outside the South Asian region. Multi-author collaborative research is encouraged.
We look forward to hearing from you!
Editors:
Somangshu Mukherji (University of Michigan)
Richard Widdess (SOAS University of London)
Managing Editor:
Eshantha Peiris (University of British Columbia)
Advisory Panel:
Martin Clayton (University of Durham)
Laura Leante (University of Durham)
Robert Morris (Eastman School of Music, University of Rochester)
Preeti Rao (Indian Institute of Technology Bombay)
Suvarnalata Rao (National Centre for the Performing Arts, Mumbai)
Ramon Satyendra (University of Michigan)
Address for correspondence: managingeditor @ southasia.iftawm.org
More information here.