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This lecture and review article aims to share the secrets of hope and faith, the resilience of Philippine music and music education as the country's unique culture in celebration of National...
22 mar 2021 · Francisco Santiago wrote not only “Concerto in B-flat minor” and the art song or kundiman “Madaling Araw” but also the music for numerous sarswelas. Even after the Philippines became a republic, the many ephemeral forms of American popular music continued to attract Filipinos.
1 mar 2019 · The essay reflects on the practice of the Filipino art critic and art historian Alice Guillermo. Surfacing in her practice are such theoretical concerns as the social presence of art and the specificity of the artistic material in relation to its contexts.
17 sty 2020 · The kundiman is the art song of the Philippines with folk-music influence set to texts. But most people refer to them as classical love songs. The early kundiman were compositions of songs that involved the “affection and devotion” to the Motherland and were called kundiman ng himagsikan (revolutionary kundiman).
Art is a system of signs and symbols, a Language System. The interrelationships of these signs and symbols produce meanings. Shared meanings by a community through time produce identity. Cultural Studies analyzes form of these systems to deduce how Culture is constructed.1 Form is a consequence, a ‘by-product.’.
Our belief systems are usually portrayed or are the subject of our arts – fine arts like painting, graphic arts. Our literature arts like novels and poems contain expressions of our core values and beliefs. Our performance arts like songs, music, dances, theater express our traditions.
People believe that artists are selflessly dedicated to art, that price does not reflect quality and that the arts are free. But is this true? This unconventional multidisciplinary analysis explains the exceptional economy of the arts.
