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Philippine Popular Culture

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"Anak" is the best-selling Philippine record of all time
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"Bayan Ko" became the anthem of opposition to the Aquino regime during the 1986 People's Power Revolution
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"The Cultural Industry: Enlightenment as a Mass Illusion," from the book Dialectic of Enlightenment (1947), it was described as a critical vocabulary
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A counterculture (also written counterculture) is a subculture whose values and behavioral norms differ materially from those of mainstream society, often as opposed to mainstream cultural mores
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A pop icon is a celebrity, character, or entity whose presentation in popular culture is considered to be a defining characteristic of a given society or age
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According to Hauben as netizens, in actual fact, geographical separation is replaced by the presence in the same virtual space called "Yahoo"
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According to Lumbera, "Popular culture is power, and anyone who uses it to control minds is likely to have their literary and technical machinery turned against him when the minds he has exploited discover his power as a political tool"
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According to Lumbera, the local intelligentsia noted that "Popular literature as a product intended for a mass market was seen as a challenge to serious artistic practice, since the writers accommodated his art to the demands of the publishers and editors who were more interested in sales than in aesthetics"
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According to Lumbera, the Spaniards developed and used popular culture in the Philippines to the native Filipinos or Indios through plays and literature to get the natives 'hearts and win them over
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According to National Artist for Literature Bienvenido Lumbera in his book Revaluation: Essays on Philippine Literature, Theatre, and Modern Culture (1984), popular culture is very distinct from Filipino folk culture and nationalistic culture
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According to Turner, as reporters prefer to bend the reporting to stories they sometimes support Tabloidization is a clear example of this, or sensationalizing small news stories and making a big deal of it
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Adorno and Horkheimer therefore especially viewed mass-produced culture as helpful to the more technologically and intellectually demanding high arts
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Along with the power to use the internet is the reporter's power provided to the netizen for a netizen may actually be a source of primary knowledge about certain topics or issues
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Although landing at the world's third place, Facebook continues to dominate the rankings with 80 million monthly active users in the Philippines
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Basket weaving, weaving of back-strap looms, weaving of headgear, weaving of fishnet and other weaving types are examples of Weaving
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Being influenced by foreign invaders, the Philippines did not manage to keep its own identity
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Between the 1990s and 2000, OPM was led by such artists as Regine Velasquez, Pops Fernandez, APO Hiking Society, Kuh Ledesma, Jose Mari Chan, Dingdong Avanzado, Janno Gibbs, Ogie Alcasid, Martin Nievera, Manilyn Reynes, Lea Salonga, Francis Magalona, Sharon Cuneta, Sheryl Cruz, Zsa Zsa Padilla, and Gary Valenciano, among many others
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Boat-making homes, and maritime activities are examples ofMaritime transport
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Calligraphy, tattoos, folk art, folk drawing and folk painting are examples ofFolk graphic and plastic arts
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Ceramics, potted clay and folk art sculpture are examples ofPottery
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Commodified culture and consumerism and generating false needs through ads and exposure to alien lifestyles through mainstream forms of culture are some issues faced by the Philippine pop culture
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Composition, musical direction, and musical production are all part of the music
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Countercultures are groups of people that are similar with the dominant culture in certain respects, and whose norms and beliefs may be incompatible with it
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Cultural imperialism is the practice of promoting and enforcing a culture over a more powerful society, typically that of a politically powerful nation; In other words, the cultural hegemony of industrialized or economically and politically influential countries which define general cultural values and standardized civilizations worldwide
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Dance choreography, dance direction and dance performance are examples of dance
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Dances, plays, and dramas are examples ofFolk (oral) literature
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Doc Willie Ong (Senatorial Candidate) holds the top spot for the most popular, most viewed, fastest-growing, and most popular Facebook post from March 25 to March 31, 2019
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Epics, songs, and myths are examples ofFolk performing arts
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Examples of mainstream culture come from a range of genres including popular music, print, cyber culture, sports, entertainment, leisure, fads, advertisement, and television
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Fernando Poe Jr is the "King of Action Movies"
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Filipino identity was developed largely by the intermingling and gradual development of post-colonial societies, colonial forces, and foreign traders
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Filipinos are spending an average of two (2) hours a day on various social media sites
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Filipinos are translating the use of the Internet like Facebook, it was a nest for some prospective candidates during the May 2002 elections
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Filipinos use the Internet as a go-to location for breaking news and keeping up with the latest events
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Folk culture is a more complicated lifestyle, which is typically traditional, predominantly self-sufficient, and mostly, reflective of urban life
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Folk Culture refers to the divided expressive elements of everyday life as practiced by regional, traditional communities
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Folk song, is a form of folk lyric that expresses hopelessness and failures, people's struggles as well as their death
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Forms of popular theater and literature such as "the pasyon, sinakulo, and corido ensured Muslim's acceptance and spread, and the comedy and awit did the same for the monarchy
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Freddie Aguilar is best known for his rendition of "Bansa Ko"
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From its roots, OPM was based in Manila, where the dominant languages are Tagalog and English
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Global culture as adopted by the Spanish has been "ordinary" to the point that it was a "watering-down of Spanish-European culture in order to win over the general public to the colonial regime's 'ideology'
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Google's search engine site remains the most visited site for both SimilarWeb and Alexa worldwide, followed on the second spot by video-sharing site YouClick
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Hat-making, masking, shoes, ornamental metalwork are examples ofOrnament, textile, or fiber art
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Hauben deeply warns that the internet can be a "source of opinion," though he says a netizen should train him/her to distinguish real from fabricated knowledge
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Haw-Haw-De-Karabaw is a movie that depicts middle-class Filipino
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In 1969, Pia Wurtzbach captured the Philippines Miss Universe title
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In a well-defined period, a counter cultural movement does not reflect the culture and desires of a specific population
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In the work 'Cultural Theory and Popular Culture,' John Story describes Culture and Popular Culture as 'works and practices of intellectual and creative activity, texts and practices whose main role is to represent, create or be an opportunity for meaning development
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International culture is the culture produced by colonial resistance, with a people's group at a given time and location
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Leah Salonga also performed the vocals of two Disney "princesses": Jasmine in Aladdin (1992) and Fa Mulan in Mulan (1998) and Mulan II (2004)
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Leah Salonga was the second Asian to play the roles of =C3=89ponine and Fantine in Les Mis=C3=A9rables on Broadway
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Leah Salongais best known for creating Kim's leading role in the Miss Saigon musical, for which she won the Olivier, Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critics, and Theater World Awards
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Levi Celeriois a famous Filipino singer
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Levi Celeriowas a creative songwriter, with more than 4,000 songs to his credit, including Filipino folk, Christmas, and love songs that are popular songs that many consider being immortal
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Manny Pacquiao is a known boxer who is born in 1978 in General Santos City Philippines
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Manny Pacquiao-Emmanuel Dapidran Pacquiao-is a former Filipino Martial Artist and politician
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Metro Manila Popular Music Festival, the country's first songwriting competition, was first founded in 1977 and launched by the Philippine Popular Music Foundation
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Music of the Philippines involves musical performance arts developed in various genres and styles in the Philippines or by Filipinos
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Non-ornamental metal crafts, martial arts, mystical healing arts, herbal arts and ancient constellations are examples ofOther artistic expressions of traditional culture
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Non-traditional arts which are bearers of non-traditional arts cannot be nominated as National Artist, equal to Gawad Manlilika ng Bayan
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OFM is currently used by Filipino musicians and singers as a catch-all term for popular music written and performed by it
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Older movies depicted the average Filipino in poverty Nowadays the majority of movies are portrayed as an elite class
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On average, Filipino households will have 3 to 5 television sets
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One of the finest modern poets in the world was Jose Garcia Villa (Doveglion)
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Original Pilipino music, now more commonly called original Pinoy music or OPM, originally only referred to Philippine pop songs, particularly ballads, such as those popular after the collapse of their predecessor, the late 1970s Manila sound
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Oxford describes social media as 'websites and applications enabling users to develop, distribute, or engage in social networking content'
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Painting, non-folk sculpture, printmaking, photography, installation art, mixed media works, illustration, graphic arts, performance art, and imaging are examples of literature
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Philippine art refers to the works of art that have evolved and accumulated in the Philippines from the beginning of the country's civilization up to the present period
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Philippine art reflects the wide variety of cultural influences on the culture of South Korea and its society, and how those influences refined the arts of the country
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Philippine culture is a mixture of East and West cultures
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Philippine literature is literature from prehistory, through its colonial legacies, and through the present, connected with the Philippines
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Philippine literature's diversity and richness grew with the country's culture
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Poetry, fiction, essay, and literary/art criticism are examples of visual arts
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Pop culture encompasses the facets of social life that the public most actively engages in
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