Call for papers (2026-I)

Antec: Revista Peruana de Investigación Musical, published by the Universidad Nacional de Música of Peru, invites the national and international musical community to submit contributions for Volume 1 (first semester of 2026), dedicated to commemorating the centenary of the birth of Celso Garrido-Lecca (Piura, 1926 – Lima, 2025).

The journal welcomes research articles addressing his life and work, compositional techniques, musical languages cultivated in his oeuvre, his impact on Peruvian and Latin American music, his legacy as founder and promoter of the Taller de la Canción Popular at the former Conservatorio Nacional de Música (CNM), and his role as a teacher and mentor of new generations.

The issue also welcomes submissions addressing, from diverse perspectives, topics related to Peruvian, Latin American, and international music, as well as reviews of books, journals, and phonographic publications of interest to the musical community.

Suggested themes include:

– Trends and intellectual currents associated with music, such as nationalism, indigenism, folklorism, popular music, negritude, neo-nationalism, neo-indigenism, identity studies, gender studies, cultural studies, fusion, decoloniality, interculturality, multiculturalism, among others
– Analytical approaches (formal, functional, structural, hermeneutic, rhetorical, semiotic, dialectical, stylistic, aesthetic, phenomenological, pluralistic, or critical) to works or musical events of interest
– Dissemination and reception

The journal cordially invites academics, musicologists, ethnomusicologists, researchers, critics, conductors, and scholars to contribute research articles and reviews for this issue.

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:

– Accepted
– Accepted with revisions
– Not accepted

The submission deadline is January 16, 2026. Manuscripts must comply with APA style (7th edition) and follow the journal’s editorial guidelines for each type of submission. Contributions should be sent to: revista.investigacion@unm.edu.pe or submitted through the journal’s website.