IFTAWM – International Foundation for the Theory and Analysis of World Musics

Analytical Approaches to African Music

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)

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.

We are very pleased to launch the first issue of the new journal, Analytical Approaches to African Music (AAAM), under the ongoing initiatives and support of IFTAWM. Analytical Approaches to African Music is a multidisciplinary critical forum dedicated to the advancement of theory and analysis on African music.

The journal is open access and is designed to facilitate participation from scholars, students, and musicians in and outside of Africa. The journal encourages analytical rigor and yet in creative-critical theoretical purview. Ultimately, AAAM hopes to contribute to broadening the horizon and towards the production of new and significantly enhanced knowledge and appreciation of the musics of African and African-derived societies and cultures in time and place.

Our forthcoming Issue 2 is edited by Charles Lwanga (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor); we shall appreciate your support as we seek to build this initiative up through article submissions, reviews, etc. Please visit the journal’s website (https://africa.iftawm.org/journal/) for submission guidelines. For general feedback and questions, contact the Managing Editor Thomas Pooley at pooletm@unisa.ac.za and/or Editor-in-Chief Daniel Avorgbedor at perazimm@gmail.com.

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