Call for papers (2023)

In her now classic book Gender and the Musical Canon, Marcia Citron identifies several elements that contribute to the formation of a canon, including notions of creativity, professionalism, and reception. She also highlights the role played by institutions of power—from organizations that regulate performance and academic institutions to critics and the publishing and recording industries—which are decisive in determining what enters the canon and what remains outside it.

In Latin America, after nearly a century of orchestral activity, a de facto canon has emerged—not merely as a repertoire, but as a consolidated body of symphonic works. Among the most widely recognized are Estancia by Alberto Ginastera, Bachianas Brasileiras by Heitor Villa-Lobos, the symphonic poems of Eduardo Fabini, La Margariteña by Inocente Carreño, Tres danzas cubanas by Alejandro García Caturla, La rebambaramba by Amadeo Roldán, Sinfonía India by Carlos Chávez, Sensemayá by Silvestre Revueltas, Huapango by José Pablo Moncayo, and Danzón No. 2 by Arturo Márquez. These works have gained sustained acceptance among conductors and orchestral ensembles and have become emblematic of Latin American symphonic music.

Antec: Revista Peruana de Investigación Musical, published by the Universidad Nacional de Música, invites musicologists, researchers, critics, conductors, and scholars to submit articles on the Latin American Symphonic Canon from diverse perspectives. Selected contributions will appear in Issue 7(2), corresponding to the second half of 2023.

Suggested topics include:

  1. Construction, deconstruction, or reconfiguration of the canon
  2. Trends and intellectual currents associated with symphonic writing: nationalism, indigenism, folklorism, negritude, neo-nationalism, and neo-indigenism
  3. Political and cultural contexts in Latin America
  4. Cultural projects in Latin America
  5. Analytical approaches (formal, functional, structural, hermeneutic, rhetorical, semiotic, dialectical, stylistic, aesthetic, phenomenological, pluralistic, or critical) to works considered canonical
  6. Dissemination and reception

Manuscripts may be submitted in Spanish, Portuguese, or English and will undergo double-blind peer review. Authors will be informed of the editorial decision, which may be:

  1. Accepted
  2. Accepted with revisions
  3. Not accepted

The submission deadline is August 15, 2023. Manuscripts must comply with APA style (7th edition) and follow the journal’s editorial guidelines for each type of submission, available at:
http://revistas.unm.edu.pe/index.php/Antec/instrucciones_a_los_autores. Submissions should be sent to: revista.investigacion@unm.edu.pe