Open AccessEuphoria, Pakikibaka, at Bahala Na: Kontekstuwalisasyon ng Piling Awiting Post-EDSA
Author(s) -
David Michael San Juan
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
plaridel (university of the philippines - online)/plaridel
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.111
H-Index - 1
eISSN - 2508-0504
pISSN - 1656-2534
DOI - 10.52518/2020.16.1-03snjuan
Subject(s) - dictatorship , context (archaeology) , power (physics) , victory , meaning (existential) , history , dance , sociology , art , literature , political science , law , politics , democracy , philosophy , archaeology , physics , epistemology , quantum mechanics
The EDSA People Power I that ousted the Marcos dictatorship led to the productionof a number of songs giving various perspectives on the so-called “peaceful revolution.”Utilizing Howard Zinn’s and Teresita Maceda’s concepts about people’s history, thispaper scrutinized the world phenomenon of songs that reflect people’s history so as tocontextualize class contradictions in three post-Edsa songs (“Handog ng Pilipino saMundo”/“The Filipinos’ Offering to the World”, “Sayaw sa Bubog”/“Dance on Shards” and“Kumusta Na”/“How Are You?”). This paper also compared the various perspectives ofdistinct social classes on the “victory” and failure of EDSA I, so as to contribute tothe unmasking of the emptiness of the historical revisionism which loyalists of theMarcos dictatorship peddle. In general, the paper is aimed at making the significance,meaning and context of these three post-EDSA songs accessible and intelligible to thepost-EDSA I generations.