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International Foundation for the Theory and Analysis of World Musics (IFTAWM)

IFTAWM hosts the following Analytical Approaches to World Music initiatives:

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) isa 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.