Session 1: The Filipino Pasyon: domesticating an Occidental Other
Session 2: Western Influence in Southeast Asian Music
Session Reading List:
“Payson: Lenten Observance of the Phillipines as Southeast Asian theater," by Ricardo D. Trimillos, in Kathy Foley. Local manifestations and cross-cultural implications: essays on Southeast Asian performance arts. Berkeley, 1992.
Handout: Payson-Filipino Lenten Music
Ric Trimillos received his Ph.D. from University of California at Los Angeles and is Professor of Asian Studies at University of Hawai`i at Manoa, with research and teaching specializations in music and folk Catholicism, and arts and public policy. His recent publications include: “Subject, Object and the Ethnomusicology Ensemble: the Ethnomusicological ‘We and Them,’” in Performing Ethnomusicology: Teaching and Representation in World Music Ensembles; “Ang Dalagang Pilipina; representation and presentation of the Filipino female in traditional musics,” Ateneo de Manila, 2000; and “Music and constructions of nationalism during the American Era (1898-1945): Filipino and American initiatives,” Manila: Government Press, 2000.
