Affective Ecology of Commitment: Embodied Music Practices in Caring for a Common Filipino Imaginary (DDS)

In our session, we propose to frame meaning-making of Filipino identity as a locus for an integral ecology that seeks care and nurturance. In the proposed roundtable of music education and culture studies scholars, invited resource persons will explicitly discuss embodied music practices that celebrate (laudato si’) how Filipinos strive to protect and nurture Love of Country (as our common home). Fusion practices have exemplified appropriation and creative adaptation whereas coded language of love songs demonstrated creative agency in subverting colonial mindsets in the 1980s and 1990s. Explicit protest, meanwhile, was manifest in the fervent music of the 1970s, animating the 1986 EDSA Revolution, fires that have been stoked during the Duterte and Marcos Jr. presidencies of the 21st century. Thus, we argue that such music practices make explicit the earnest love of a Filipino imagination that embraces the challenge of caring for an affective integral ecology and identity we cherish, protect, and hope to prosper Organized by Lara Mendoza.