#NOT EVEN BAYAN KO. WE DIDNT EVEN TALK ABOUT BAYAN KO?

[theresa-of-liechtenstein]

man i’m still so hung up on the way that this professor handled music in the philippines. there were Choices made and though i agreed with a few of them, i found most of them straight up fucking baffling and it was disheartening to not feel heard or invited to contribute to the discussion despite this subject matter being uhhhhhhh my fucking lived experience just because i didn’t pay a twenty dollar membership fee to the fil-am org

#if ppl actually walk away thinking kulintang = progressive and rondalla = conservative i’m going to scream and bite things #BARELY touched on actual music happening in the philippines. most of it was fil am stuff #like sure apo hiking was mentioned but THAT WAS THE ONLY ONE #and it was to juxtapose american junk with something a child of the diaspora made #which was filled with like AAVE appropriation and was mostly in english like hello? #and the point was ‘see this is male dominated and the new one is intersectional feminism’ YOURE MISSING THE POINT #OH MH FUCKING GOD #AMERICAN JUNK SUCCINCTLY CRITICIZES AMERICAN PHYSICAL AND CULTURAL HEGEMONY #ITS FRUSTRATION AND LAMENT AND RESISTANCE BUBBLING UNDER OUR ‘FRIENDLY FACES’ #the new song the fil am woman made covers WAY too much im sorry #i couldn’t understand it and i showed it to my parents and they were like we don’t understand this either lol #half of its not even in any dialect of filipino language #so we’re appropriating Black American art—music created by another oppressed group—and calling it SEA music. cool cool #the only thing i liked was this assigned book i need to finish it but it criticized the activities of fil-am uni orgs #it helped me verbalize just what put me off joining these group #NOT EVEN BAYAN KO. WE DIDNT EVEN TALK ABOUT BAYAN KO? #AND NO ASIN EITHER I WAS SO MAD #UGH i’m glad we’re done with this unit i was really really disappointed by it #NO WAIT THE FUNNIEST THING IS WERE GONNA CALL BAYANIHAN DANCE COMPANY CULTURAL APPROPRIATION #BUT WERE NOT GONNA TALK ABOUT HOW FIL AMS CASUALLY APPROPRIATE BLACK AMERICAN ART WHILE ANTIBLACK RACISM IS SO PERVSSIVE IN THE COMMUNITY #HELLO?