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Meranao Folksongs: Their Dominant Themes and Implications to Meranao Culture and Identity

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• Volume 5,Issue 2, March 2018

Year:

2018

Type of Publication:

Article

Keywords:

Cultural Identity, Expression of Cultural Values, Folk Songs, Meranao, Oral Tradition

Authors:

• Velasco, Eugenia A.

Journal:

IJIRES

Volume:

5

Number:

2

Pages:

139-142

Month:

March

ISSN:

2349-5219

BibTex:

@article{706, author = "Eugenia A. Velasco", abstract = "This descriptive literary study analyzed and interpreted ten Meranao folksongs to find out their dominant themes and implications to the Meranao people’s cultural values and growth as well as group identity. These folk songs were gathered from secondary sources, both published and unpublished works of Meranao and non-Meranao scholars. All said folksongs had been translated into English and had undergone text validation by a native Maranao skilled in the English language to ensure the validity of both the transcriptions and translations. The study revealed that these selected Meranao folk songs are rich in imagery and symbolisms and deal with themes that the Meranao confront in their everyday lives (love, courtship, marriage) or consider vital to the survival of their culture and identity as a people (good manners, social behavior, cultural attitudes and values). Thus, this oral tradition enables the Maranao to express their worldview and, at the same time, demonstrates their cultural uniqueness. ", issn = "23495219", journal = "IJIRES", keywords = "Cultural Identity, Expression of Cultural Values, Folk Songs, Meranao, Oral Tradition", month = "March", note = "This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 Creative Commons License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/", number = "2", pages = "139-142", title = "{M}eranao {F}olksongs: {T}heir {D}ominant {T}hemes and {I}mplications to {M}eranao {C}ulture and {I}dentity", volume = "5", year = "2018", }

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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 Creative Commons License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/

Abstract:

This descriptive literary study analyzed and interpreted ten Meranao folksongs to find out their dominant themes and implications to the Meranao people’s cultural values and growth as well as group identity. These folk songs were gathered from secondary sources, both published and unpublished works of Meranao and non-Meranao scholars. All said folksongs had been translated into English and had undergone text validation by a native Maranao skilled in the English language to ensure the validity of both the transcriptions and translations. The study revealed that these selected Meranao folk songs are rich in imagery and symbolisms and deal with themes that the Meranao confront in their everyday lives (love, courtship, marriage) or consider vital to the survival of their culture and identity as a people (good manners, social behavior, cultural attitudes and values). Thus, this oral tradition enables the Maranao to express their worldview and, at the same time, demonstrates their cultural uniqueness.

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