Call for Papers

Abstracts are invited from talented individuals to talk, lecture and write about various interdisciplinary aspects in musicology encompassing music history, music geography, music and martial arts, music gardening, music horticulture, culinary music, music and meditation, music and psychology, music and astronomy.The winning entries will be published in our scholarly journal, "Journal of Extraneous ethnomusicology".

For your guidance we have provided you with the list of 10 topics that made it to the last year's festival.
Topic #11 was rejected by our committee since it was deemed to be too technical. Please see our submission guidelines below the list of topics.

1. Facebook as a Seat of Music - An examination of the musicians and their followers on facebook
2. A comparative account of the potency of the brand of snuff used by Paramakkudi Parameshvara Iyer and that used by Vedapuri Varadaraja Iyengar
3. Did Mangadu Madhava Iyer like Molagapodi or  Sambhar or Chutney with his Idlis?  Various views of his Shishya paramparas examined.
4. Vidwans who held my grandfather's hands at the end of the concert and the textures of their palms- From the personal diaries of  Visiri Viswanatha Iyer - Read out by his grandson.
5. Did Tawaif Tara begum receive more letters than Satyamangalam Subbammal - the sixty sixth Southern voice to be ever recorded on audio? An effort at digging up forgotten personal Histories which we have no business to be poking into.
6. An account of the list of horses and their pedigree that Hogenakkal Hamsachariar betted on.
7. An analysis of the compositions of Tyagaraja with the word ‘Tyagaraja’ in them
8. A case for the elimination of tanpuras, sruti boxes – electronic or otherwise in Music concerts
9. Sruti - An over-rated concept that has no place in a carnatic music concert
10. The tree that Dhanammal sat under -  A comparison of the accounts of  various attendees
11. The musical differences between raga names ending in ‘i’ vs the raga names ending in ‘a’

Guidelines:

• Any reference to an original lakshana granta or a display of knowledge of the same is a key criteria for disqualification.
• Since the journal is an interdisciplinary one, articles pertaining solely to music and music alone are not acceptable. This necessarily means that your article should not have anything to do with musicology as understood by some narrow-minded bigots who think musicology has to do with demonstrable technical topics on music. We steer clear of these narrow-minded folks who only stand in the way of progress and our vision in broadening the brave new field of Extraneous musicology
• You should have published in a newspaper as our scholarly journal takes journalistic writing very seriously.
• Citation is discouraged and if you feel compelled to cite or acknowledge due to reasons such as photocopying from a single source, please use the "MPLAG" standard for citing your sources. The MPLAG standard requires that you leave out the name of the author and only provide the country and century of publication. Example:
  1.India, 20th Century
  2.India, 19th Century
  3.Netherlands, 21st Century
  
• Given the low attention span of our readers , we expect articles to be no more than two pages in length.