About the Journal

Definition

Antec: Revista Peruana de Investigación Musical is a platform for the dissemination of academic research in the field of music, created and supported by the Center for Research, Musical Creation and Publications—now the Research Institute—of the National University of Music of Peru.

Antec aims to provide an open academic forum for musical research supported by peer review. Its mission is to strengthen and disseminate musical knowledge in human contexts through an open, accessible, original, and interdisciplinary approach, addressing different thematic areas of musical activity, such as:

• Musical performance: techniques, styles, and interpretative approaches in different musical genres.
• Musical creation: composition and production, and new sound creation techniques.
• Musical education: pedagogy, music teaching, and innovative approaches to musical training.
• Musicology: the history, theory, and analysis of music, with emphasis on cultural and social contexts.
• Music and the human sciences: music and its relationship with anthropology, sociology, philosophy, or psychology.
• Music and aesthetics: music as a form of aesthetic expression, analyzing its emotional, symbolic, and artistic impact.
• Music and media: how music communicates through different platforms and media, and its role in social communication.
• Music and technology: the impact of technology on musical creation, production, dissemination, and performance.
• Music in interdisciplinary practice: music and its relationship with cinema, theatre, or dance

For publication, originality of the topic is required, as well as its potential contribution to the understanding of musical phenomena in their respective human contexts. Within this framework, the journal provides space for the study of the various forms of musical expression adopted by societies as meaningful cultural practices.

Its target audience is the academic community, especially researchers, professionals, and students seeking to deepen their understanding of the thematic areas addressed by the journal.

Antec is published in both digital and print formats, with two issues per year (June and December). Submitted manuscripts must comply with the specifications described in the journal’s instructions and guidelines. Authors are advised to read all sections carefully before submitting any article through the Open Journal Systems (OJS) platform and to strictly follow APA Style (7th ed.) guidelines.

The journal has an open access policy and offers all its content freely in order to promote the exchange of knowledge across different areas of musical research.

As an open access publication, the National University of Music makes the entire journal available free of charge. Users may read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, link to, or allow the full texts of the articles to be crawled for indexing, pass them as data to software, or use them for any other lawful purpose without prior permission from the editor or author, provided that the source is cited in accordance with the terms of the Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 4.0 license.

Journal structure

The journal Antec is organized into five sections: Editorial, La Antara of this issue, Dossier, Articles, and Reviews. Of these, the sections Dossier, Articles, and Reviews correspond to texts received through open calls for submissions and are subject to editorial evaluation and, when appropriate, peer review.

The sections Editorial and La Antara of this issue, in turn, consist of content prepared by the journal’s editorial team and are intended to introduce the issue and provide a brief commentary or reflection related to the image selected for the cover.

Regarding the distribution of texts, it is established that approximately 50% of the content of each issue will be devoted to research articles, while the remaining content is distributed among the journal’s other academic sections.

Historical Overview of the Journal

In the 2014 Institutional Regulations of the CNM, which adopted a university model for the granting of Licenciatura-level degrees, reference was made to the Centro de Investigación, Creación Musical y de Publicaciones (CICREMP) as the entity responsible for promoting research activities.

From the outset, the aim was not to produce an institutional bulletin or informational brochure, but rather to undertake the challenge of creating a publication capable of achieving academic indexing and strengthening the scholarly presence of the CNM in the field of musical research. This initiative was conceived as one of the sustainable projects of CICREMP. At the time, there were no specialized research journals in the country—not only in the field of music but in the arts more broadly. It was in this context that the subtitle Revista peruana de investigación musical emerged.

The name of the journal was chosen through consultation among members of the conservatory community. The title Antec refers to the compound flute, an instrument of great symbolic significance whose image evokes the diverse musical cultures of the country, their multiple forms of musical expression, and a certain continuity across time. For this reason, each issue of the journal includes a brief account of a particular variant of the instrument and its musical traditions.

ANTEC: Revista peruana de investigación musical was founded in the first semester of 2017, at a time when the institutional transformation that would convert the Conservatorio Nacional de Música into the Universidad Nacional de Música (UNM) was already underway. The journal’s editorial orientation focused on the publication of research texts developed explicitly from the praxis of music: performance, composition, teaching, and, naturally, research itself in its musicological and ethnomusicological branches. In this sense, it became the first musical research journal to emerge in Peru, seeking to occupy a space long demanded and urgently needed for the development of musical knowledge.

During its initial stage, the journal established its visual identity elements, including the logo and symbol, the color palette, and the typographic system used for the different sections, all supported by a visual identity manual.

The editorial process began when the Centro de Investigación, Creación Musical y Publicaciones (CICREMP) had only recently been created, an entity that would later become the Instituto de Investigación of the UNM. The journal was directed by Omar Ponce Valdivia, Magister in Musicology and professor at the institution, with the assistance of Roxana Bada Céspedes, Alexandra Cipriani, and Ruth Mamani de los Ríos.

Some of the milestones achieved by ANTEC became visible when the journal published an interview with the composer Enrique Iturriaga (1918–2019) on the centenary of his birth; when it reported on the UNM’s reissue of Filosofía elemental de la Música (1869) by José Bernardo Alzedo; when it gathered testimonies from young Peruvian musicians on the pedagogical and musicological work of Américo Valencia Chacón, who passed away in 2019; and through editions dedicated to commemorating the Bicentennial of the Independence of Peru (2021), which included the publication of the research works that won the competition organized that year by the UNM.

A notable turning point occurred beginning with volume 7.2, under the direction of Aurelio Tello as editor-in-chief, when a special section—a dossier dedicated to a specific theme—was introduced. This section first addressed the figure of Federico Gerdes on the 150th anniversary of his birth. In volume 8.1, the theme focused on electronic music in Peru, featuring a review of canonical works in this genre by young composers as well as a series of interviews with active composers who incorporate electronic media into their creative processes. Volume 8.2 opened a space to commemorate the two hundred years since the Battle of Ayacucho, publishing in its dossier the papers presented at a virtual conference devoted to this topic. Volume 9.1 commemorated the centenary of the death of José María Valle Riestra, while volume 9.2 recalled the life and work of the musicologist Chalena Vásquez on the seventy-fifth anniversary of her birth. Volume 10.1 is dedicated to the remembrance of the life and work of Celso Garrido-Lecca, one of the most important Peruvian composers, on the centenary of his birth.

The journal has also benefited from the increasingly strong participation of distinguished collaborators in its research article section. Among them are musicologists such as Clara Petrozzi, Zoila Vega, Julio Mendívil, Luis José Roncagliolo, Daniel Kudó, Marino Martínez (Peru), José Manuel Izquierdo and Alejandro Vera (Chile), John Lazos (Mexico–Canada), and Mariantonia Palacios (Venezuela).

In addition to the indexations achieved in Directory of Open Access Journals, MIAR, and REDIB up to 2022, Antec has also been included in the Oxford Dictionary of Music bibliography of musical research in Latin America in the area of traditional music. In September 2024, ANTEC was incorporated into the Directory of Latindex, the Regional Online Information System for Scholarly Journals of Latin America, the Caribbean, Spain, and Portugal, after fulfilling the requirements established for inclusion on this platform.