Welcome to the homepage of the International Foundation for the Theory and Analysis of World Musics (IFTAWM), a research unit in the Barry S. Brook Center for Music Research and Documentation at the City University of New York Graduate Center.
Instructions for Donating to IFTAWM:
1) click on the following link: https://www.gc.cuny.edu/giving/make-donation/barry-brook-center
2) Under the menu marked ‘Designation’ click on the tab ‘Brook Fund – Music Research and Documentation’ to reveal the drop-down menu and select ‘The International Foundation for the Theory and Analysis of World Musics’ as the organization to receive your tax-deductible donation.
3) In the ‘Leave a Comment’ box please provide your name, institutional affiliation (if any), and the email address where you would like to receive your Zoom link required to enter the symposium.
IFTAWM hosts the following Analytical Approaches to World Music initiatives:
and also:
Analytical Approaches to African Music is a multidisciplinary critical forum dedicated to the advancement of theory and analysis on African music, dance, and performance. The journal is open access and is designed to facilitate participation for faculty, students, and musicians in and outside of Africa. AAAM will foster a new community of scholarship through the publication of substantial research articles, short analytical pieces and commentaries, and reviews.
Analytical Approaches to Music of South Asia (AAMSA) is a multidisciplinary online journal, devoted to any music of South Asia or the diaspora, past or present, including traditional or contemporary music, popular or classical, folk, tribal, religious, jazz, and so on. The journal focuses on questions relating to the realities of musical sound, performance, repertoires, and systems in South Asia, and within this objective is 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, computational, linguistic, and cognitive approaches; and so on.
The Jewish Musics Analysis Group brings together scholars engaged with theory and analysis of music of Jewish traditions, cultures, and practices. An interdisciplinary community, the Jewish Musics Analysis Group provides a forum for sharing research, mentoring, group analysis endeavors, and collaboration with other organizations dealing with global Jewish musics.
IFTAWM is proud to be affiliated with the following sister organizations:
Birmingham City University’s Computational Ethnomusicology group is an interdisciplinary research group that brings together researchers from SoMA (Sound and Music Analysis) and the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire. They have an interest in combining ethnographic study with that of sonic and gestural analysis to better understand playing styles in traditional music. Projects bring together interests in ethnomusicology alongside machine learning and acoustics. To date, work has focused on traditional Irish flute playing and work has also commenced on analysis of traditional fiddle playing.
The SEM Special Interest Group for Music Analysis seeks to provide a unique interdisciplinary platform for sharing ethnomusicological research that incorporates the analysis of music/sound structures along with other methodologies and approaches. The group is committed to elevating and amplifying the voices, perspectives, and approaches of BBIPOC, women, gender-non-binary folks, trans folks, and other marginalized people doing music analysis broadly defined; to challenging existing norms, assumptions, “canons,” and practices of music analysis; and to finding and forwarding anti-racist and decolonizing methods and concepts for music analytic research and pedagogy.