{"id":22493,"date":"2024-04-07T08:11:35","date_gmt":"2024-04-07T18:11:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thefilipinochronicle.com\/backup\/?p=22493"},"modified":"2024-04-07T08:18:27","modified_gmt":"2024-04-07T18:18:27","slug":"cultural-lecture-review-himig-ng-pilipinas-sa-nakaraang-siglo-contributions-of-filipino-women-to-philippine-pop-music-in-the-last-100-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thefilipinochronicle.com\/backup\/2024\/04\/07\/cultural-lecture-review-himig-ng-pilipinas-sa-nakaraang-siglo-contributions-of-filipino-women-to-philippine-pop-music-in-the-last-100-years\/","title":{"rendered":"CULTURAL LECTURE REVIEW: Himig ng Pilipinas sa Nakaraang Siglo (Contributions of Filipino Women to Philippine Pop Music in the Last 100 Years)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Photo by Allan Alvarez<\/sup><\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

by Rose Cruz Churma<\/em>

<\/strong>Held on March 22 which is the Philippine National Women\u2019s Month, this lecture was led by Paul Gabriel L. Cosme and held at the Honolulu Sentro Rizal on the historic building on the Philippine Consulate grounds along Pali Highway.

Co-sponsored by the Philippine Consulate General in Honolulu and the Filipino Association of University Women (FAUW) the lecture described the contributions of Filipino women to Philippine pop music over the last 100 years.

Popular music was chosen as the theme since it offers insight into culture and public consumption and is indicative of mass trends that are pervasive in Philippine daily life. \u00a0It also hints at collective identity and consciousness.

During the pre-1900s, there was Dolores Paterno who composed\u00a0La Flor de Manila.\u00a0<\/em>But from 1898 to 1946 during the American colonial period saw the popularity of\u00a0bodabil<\/em> with Katy de la Cruz emerging as the \u201cQueen of\u00a0Bodabil<\/em>\u00a0and Jazz.\u201d

During this period,\u00a0the University of the Philippines (UP) was established in 1908 which eventually formed the UP Conservatory in 1916. From 1934 to 1938, efforts were made at UP to collect and retrieve folk music and dance as the university\u2019s flagship project.

The establishment of the Philippine Women\u2019s University in 1919 (led by Francisca Tirona Benitez with six other women) led to the Filipiniana Folk Music and Dance Collection spearheaded by Lucrecia Kasiglag in music and Lucrecia Ursula in dance.

For baby boomers who grew up in the Philippines, Sylvia La Torre is a recognizable name\u2014known as the \u201cQueen of Kundiman\u201d and \u201cFirst Lady of Philippine Television\u201d for hosting the\u00a0Big Show<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0Oras ng Ligaya<\/em>.\u00a0She studied \u201cserious\u201d music at the UST Conservatory and was associated with the Manila Grand Opera House.

By the 1960s to the early 80s, there were Pilita Corales, Nora Aunor, Sharon Cuneta and Odette Quesada who won MetroPop in 1983 and who composed several karaoke hits sung by popular singers like Kuh Ledesma and Regine Velasquez.

One segment of the lecture discussed the development of Original Pinoy Music (OPM) and its roots in the Filipino national identity to the emergence of rock bands like Aegis (who performed several times on O\u2019ahu\u2014at the FilCom Center in 2013 to SRO crowds).

Sarah Geronimo and Angeline Quinto are some of the women vocal artists who are now popular in the pop music scene in the Philippines. There\u2019s also Moira dela Torre, the duo called Leanne and Naara, Stef Aranas, and Billie de la Paz of Oh, Flamingo!.

What this lecture established is that women have always significantly contributed to Philippine pop culture, and its reinvention into new forms, new sounds and use of new technology. The lecture concludes with the following: \u201cWithout her, what we know as Philippine pop music would never exist.”

However, discussing this topic in the absence of the Filipino men\u2019s contribution is a disservice to truly understanding the evolution of pop music within Philippine culture. Perhaps in the future\u2014not during Philippine National Women\u2019s Month\u2014this lecture could take place once more, with the men\u2019s contributions acknowledged.

Paul Gabriel L. Cosmeis a student at the University of Hawai’i at M\u0101noa (UHM) as a graduate degree fellow at the East-West Center (EWC) and the recipient of the Elizabeth Spann Award in the College of Arts.

He graduated with highest honors from Macalester College where he majored in Music and International Studies and is a winner of the Lila Bell Acheson Wallace Endowed Prize in Music.

As a scholar, his area of interest can be described as\u00a0aspiring “to make connections and elucidate shared histories between various cultures and communities that he has since called his home\u201d because he is at the intersections of his homeland, its diaspora and its neighbors around the Pacific.

As a musical composer, he combines various formats and sounds “from Asian and Western traditions with classical, pop & rock, jazz, and traditional artists from the United States and through Asia and the Pacific.\u201d

He likes to improvise on the kulintang and\u00a0currently works on two projects: the\u00a0Pagsamba\u00a0<\/em>(To Worship), a mass setting by Filipino National Artist Jos\u00e9 Montserrat Maceda; and how various Filipina popular singing voices resist colonial modernity in the Philippines.

This lecture, which was followed by a sumptuous spread of food and wine, was made possible through the auspices of Vice Consul\u00a0Leizel Caasi and the Consulate staff and the FAUW officers led by its current president, Bey Aquino Lontoc. \u00a0

Some historical tidbits regarding the venue of the lecture\u2014at the spot where the lecture took place\u2014was where Mr. & Mrs. Renjes, the original owners of the historic Philippine Consulate building, welcomed their guests which included President and Mrs. Dole and Honolulu\u2019s \u201chigh society\u201d at a reception for the Dutch artist Hubert Vow on March 23, 1898.

Heinrich Renjes built this historic structure and completed it in 1890 for his bride,\u00a0Elizabeth Kekaeikapuokalani Coney of Kauai.

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ROSE CRUZ CHURMA\u00a0<\/strong>established\u00a0Kalamansi Books & Things\u00a0three decades ago. It has\u00a0evolved from a mail-order bookstore into an online advocacy with the intent of helping global Pinoys discover their heritage by promoting books of value from the\u00a0Philippines\u00a0and those\u00a0written by Filipinos in the Diaspora. We can be reached at\u00a0kalamansibooks@gmail.com<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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