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Dates: [DD, Dec, 2025]
Venue: [XX - India, Hybrid format]
This inaugural conference of FRIM seeks to bring together scholars and practitioners engaged in the study of Indian music across its textual, performative, and theoretical dimensions. We invite papers that analyse practice and/or interrogate texts to illuminate the relationship between musical texts (treatises, compositions, commentaries, notations) and musical practices (performance, pedagogy, transmission, aesthetics), while engaging with historical, philosophical, or analytical questions.
In addition to textually grounded research, the conference warmly invites papers that critically analyse musical practice, including performance, pedagogy, improvisation, composition, transmission, and embodiment.
Papers may be theoretical, analytical, ethnographic, or practice-based in form. We welcome submissions from academics and researchers as well as from performer-scholars, practitioner-researchers, and those working in collaborative or cross-disciplinary frameworks.
Potential Topics May Include
Close readings of Indian musicological texts
Analytical studies of rāga, tāla, or compositional forms
Historical Musicology
Music Philology and Manuscript Studies
Histories of Performance, Pedagogy, or Patronage
Music and Aesthetics in Indian philosophical systems
Transmission of musicological knowledge (oral, textual, digital)
Intersections with dance, ritual, or religious practice
Music and colonial/postcolonial knowledge formations
Comparative frameworks and global musicology
Themes in Philosophy of Music
Histories of instruments, techniques
Conceptual and methodological issues
We welcome proposals for:
Individual papers (20-minute presentation + 10-minute discussion)
Thematic panels (3–4 papers + moderator; 60 minutes presentations +30 minutes discussion)
Lecture-demonstrations or practice-based presentations (20-minute presentation + 10-minute discussion)
Submission Guidelines
Abstract:100–400 words with Bio: 100 words (including institutional affiliation, if any)
The abstract should clearly mention the following: Purpose and scope of the study, the methodology employed, findings and conclusions from the study.
The abstract should be objective and analytical in nature. Eulogistic and hyperbolic language should be avoided.
Submission Deadline: 1 Sep, 2025
Notification of Acceptance: 1 Nov, 2025
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Publication
Select conference papers will be considered for publication in the inaugural issue of FRIM’s annual peer-reviewed journal. We aim to publish the papers from the conference in a special issue of a (Diamond Open Access) academic journal.