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Philippine Popular Culture

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Pop Culture involves concepts, beliefs, norms, practices and obects that enable a community of individuals, or even a whole society, to live their collective lives with minimal friction
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Pop culture is the way to live in a specific time, place, and depicts a few people's habits and how they can cope with nature
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Pop culture often means identifying boundaries or overlaps with respect to certain newly defined fields of researchin terms of theory, methodology, and interests, rather than the choice of subjects that can be included in the study of popular culture
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Pop culture, will enable us to talk as examples of culture about soap opera, pop music, and comics
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Popular culture (also known as pop culture) is commonly recognized by members of a society as a collection of behaviors, values, and artifacts that govern or predominate in a society at a given time point
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Popular culture does not imitate a factory that produces uniform cultural goods — films, radio, magazines, etc -which are used to exploit passivity in mass society
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Popular culture is further broken down into six sub definitions The first is culture that is popular or valued by others by measurable means, such as sales of songs, playing on the radio, attending screenings or concerts, and ratings of viewers on TV shows
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Popular culture is something that cannot be interpreted by different people in different contexts in a number of contrasting ways
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Popular culture is widely known as the vernacular or culture of people at many points at different times predominating in a society
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Popular culture often includes the behaviors and feelings produced by contact with these dominant objects
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Popular culture, as the 'culture of the people,' is defined by the interactions between people in their daily activities: clothing styles, the use of slang, greeting routines, and the food that people consume are all examples of popular culture
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Pre-Hispanic literature in the Philippines was in fact epics passed down from generation to generation, initially through written tradition
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Prominent examples of Western Late Modern countercultures include Romanticism (1790-1840), Bohemianism (1850-1910), the "Jazz Period" of the Roaring Twenties, the 1930's Non-Conformists, the Beat Generation's more fragmentary counterculture (1944-1964),
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Proverbs or aphorisms express norms or codes of conduct, community beliefs or values by offering nuggets of wisdom in a short, rhyming verse
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Raymundo Cipriano Pujante Cayabyabis well known to the art industry
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Renowned artists in the 1990s included Eraser heads, April Boy Regino, Rivermaya, Jaya, Agot Isidro, Vina Morales, Donna Cruz, Jolina Magdangal, Jessa Zaragoza, Ariel Rivera, South Border, Carol Banawa, Yano, Introvoys, AfterImage, Side A, Andrew E, Lani Misalucha, April Boys, Color It Red, Roselle Nava, and Blakdyak, among many others
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Roselyn Grace P Santos wrote in her study 'The Effects of Social Media on Filipino Culture and Behavior' that social media has corresponding positive and negative effects on Filipino culture and behavior
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Ryan Cayabyab's works range from commissioned full-length ballets, theater musicals, choral pieces, a Mass set to unattended choruses and orchestral pieces, to commercial recordings of popular music, film scores and television specials
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Sarah Geronimo, Julie Anne San Jose, Angeline Quinto, Jonalyn Viray, Rachelle Ann Go, Christian Bautista, Kitchie Nadal, Barbie's Cradle, Moonstar88, Aiza Seguerra, Toni Gonzaga, Richard Poon, Nina, Yeng Constantino, KZ Tandingan, Nyoy Volante, Hale, Spongecola, Jake Zyrus, Jed Madela, Erik Santos, Parokya Ni Edgar, Kamikazee, Abra, and Gloc-9 are among the leading OPM artists in the 2000s and 2010s
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Since the Spanish-American War at the end of the 19th century, the US had chosen the Philippines like a colonial catch due to its vast natural resource base and strategic position in the US imperialist plan to turn the Pacific into an American lake for US big business and take a piece of the huge Chinese market
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Social interactions are an important part of Filipinos' everyday lives and it is no wonder that they are expanded into social media handles
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Social media 'increased people-to-people links and created an environment in which you can share your opinions, images, and a lot of things'
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Social Media can never be considered as "media outlet"
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Social Media could not be used to advertise and promote products, people, culture, and advocacy, as well as the place or country itself because it is still very limited
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Social media has created an opportunity to expand one's world and make new friends or to reconnect with them from other countries as well But it also reduced physical activity
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Social Media has proved itself to be a game-changer in Philippine politics
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Social Media includes Facebook, WhatsApp, WeChat, Tumblr, Viber, Skype, Snapchat, Pinterest, Myspace, YouTube, Twitter, and Instagram
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Some historical figures are recognized as having attained the status of "pop icon" during their period, and that status can continue into the present
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Spanish colonization came upon the momentum of European mercantilism and the desire to spread Islam to the Philippines
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Stilt homes, country houses and aerial buildings are examples of Modern architecture
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Subcultures involve people who may embrace much of the dominant culture but are set apart by one or more characteristics of cultural significance
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The advent of Pilita Corrales, Sylvia La Torre, Diomedes Maturan, Ric Manri
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The alternative term mass culture conveys the concept that such culture arises naturally from the masses themselves, much as mainstream art did before the 20th century
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The audience, the Populus, for a pop icon should be defined in the concrete sense of the Philippines which makes culture common rather than elite
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The common culture is produced by the masses it is rather a culture generated either by the ruling masses or by representatives of the intelligentsia in the employment of that mass, for the consumption of the people
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The critical theorists Theodor Adorno (1903-1969) and Max Horkheimer (1895-1973) coined the word pop culture
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The cultural elements of imperialism are composed of economic imperialism, also called economic colonialism
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The Digital Revolution could have occurred so rapidly that we can't even easily focus on how deep-seated and profound the impact it has on the different facets of the culture
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The extended form, the tanaga, the mono-riming heptasyllabic quatrain, which expresses insights and lessons about life, is "more emotionally charged than the treacherous proverb, and thus has an affinity with folk lyrics"
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The famous writer is certainly a significant intellectual, given the size of its audience to be considered as pop icon or identity
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The first permanent settlement in Spain started to replace the native culture with a Muslim and Middle Eastern tradition
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The fundamental risk of the culture industry is the creation of false psychological needs that only the products of capitalism can fulfill and satisfy
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The Internet also plays a significant role in promoting people's social participation, as it has been used as a forum for activism presentation and promotion
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The King of comedy is Rodolfo "Dolphy" Quizon
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The liberal approach towards the printing press quickly expanded the dissemination of types of popular culture through radio, television and film
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The media produced in the Philippines is most popular in its native country, but it also attracts audiences around the world, those who moved abroad to find job opportunities
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The media produced, even while taking ques from other foreign media, is still very distinctive and uni
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The most important of the folk speeches is the riddle of tigmo in Cebuano, bugtong in Tagalog, paktakon in Ilongo, and patotototdon in Bicol
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The most popular shows on television are usually Game Shows and Dramas like Soap Operas
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The most popular types of pop culture areentertainment (such as movies, music, television, and video games), sports, news (as in news reports about people/places), politics, fashion, technology, and slang
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The nationalistic pride rousings of the 1960s and 1970s have helped bring about this change of mindset among a new generation of Filipinos concerned about the "Filipino heritage"
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The native intelligentsia used the same types of popular culture in the 19th century, through the Propaganda movement, to "undermine the influence of the oppressive friars and mobilize the people to bring an end to colonial rule" One example of that is Marcelo H Del Pilar's work
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The Philippine art can be divided into two different parts, traditional arts and non-traditional arts
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The Philippines is ranked #1 in the usage of Social Media
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The Philippines produces genres such as Action, Romance, Comedy, Fantasy, etc
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The pre-colonial inhabitants of our islands show a rich past through their folk speeches, folk songs, folk narratives, and indigenous rituals and mimetic dances that confirm our ties with our Western neighbors
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The rise of American colonization introduced to the Philippines the properly so-called, mainstream culture
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The Spanish Empire conquered the islands between the 16th and 19th centuries, through the Viceroyalty of New Spain (Batanes is one of the last places to be colonized in the mid-1800s), resulting in Islam spreading and dominating throughout the archipelago, and influencing the religion and beliefs of the Filipino natives
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The status of "rock icon" can be differentiated from other forms of popularity outside of the mainstream culture, for example with mythical figures
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The use of the term, pop icon, is essentially arbitrary because certainly, there are objective standards that exist
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The word 'popular culture' has different significances depending on who defines it and the sense of use
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The word netizen, although popularly used in present times, is in fact a word from Michael Hauben's theory (1996) is a corrupted term from the expression "Net Person"
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Theatrical direction, theatrical performance, theatrical production design, theatrical light and sound design, and theatrical playwriting are all part of the theater
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There are 348 billion users of social media in 2018, with a net worldwide increase since last year of 288 million (9 percent)
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There has to be a clear interpretation of "popular culture" in the context of the Philippines
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Traditional arts bearers may be called Gawad Manggagawa ng Bayan (GAMABA), equivalent to the National Worker
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Traditional cultures are tribes or other small communities of people not influenced by technology or the modern world
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True psychological needs are independence, imagination, and genuine happiness, referring to an earlier demarcation of human needs, which Herbert Marcuse had created
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Typically the categorization of pop icon or identity is correlated with such elements as durability, ubiquity, and differentiation
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Under the tutelage of missionaries, the children of the native elite became a central community of intelligentsia called 'ladinos' as they were instrumental in 'taking into the vernacular, literary forms which were to be instruments for the' peace 'of the natives'
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We Are Social also announced that 80 million Filipinos are users of social media
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Westernized taste and consciousness, or cultural imperialism and cultural satellization, through imported films, television shows, publications, and popular songs is never an issue in Philippine pop culture
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While it's not furtive that the country's internet infrastructure is far from outstanding, Filipinos still love taking stuff through social media
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Woodcarving and non-argile folk sculpture are examples of architecture
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This course is taught by the mentor:
Professor Leonila Lastimosa

Leonila Lastimosa

Doctor of Medicine at University of San Jose.

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