In this article, the Chilean children's magazine Mampato (1968-1978) is presented as a source of interest for musicological and cultural studies. Through the exhaustive review of this publication and the preliminary examination of its different sections, it is shown that this magazine can and should be considered as a source to study different aspects of musics (practices, repertoires, notions, concepts) that refer both to socially shared music representations in Western culture as a concrete sociohistorical context, Chile between 1968 and 1978. And this not only within the framework of the didactic transmission of knowledge, but in the incentive to the practice of listening and making music.