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Various nationalists have also critiqued the use of English or "Taglish" which is a mix of Tagalog and English in works of art and especially music. Once again, in the 1980s a large focus on American or Americanized pop style songs was seen as a way to dissolve or weaken true Filipino cultural in a neo-colonial period.
The history of the Philippines from 1898 to 1946 is known as the American colonial period, and began with the outbreak of the Spanish–American War in April 1898, when the Philippines was still a colony of the Spanish East Indies, and concluded when the United States formally recognized the independence of the Republic of the Philippines on ...
From 1901 to 1946, the American colonial regime affected Filipino theater. [1] On November 4, 1901 the Sedition Act was enacted in the Philippines. [2] With this law it was prohibited for any type of media or speech to go against the United States. [citation needed] During the 1930s Filipinos were exposed to western theater and western classics ...
It was not until the 1890s that Native American music began to enter the American establishment. At the time, the first pan-tribal cultural elements, such as powwows, were being established, and composers like Edward MacDowell and Henry Franklin Belknap Gilbert used Native themes in their compositions.
Jazz music in the Philippines originated during the American occupation of the Philippines between 1910s and 1920s. At this period, Filipinos began experimenting with Afro-American and Hispano-Filipino music. One of the notable musicians of this age was the self-proclaimed "King of Jazz", Luis Borromeo.
"Bayan Ko" (usually translated as "My Country"; Spanish: Nuestra patria, lit. 'Our Motherland') is one of the most recognizable patriotic songs of the Philippines.It was written in Spanish by the revolutionary general José Alejandrino in light of the Philippine–American War and subsequent American occupation, and translated into Tagalog some three decades later by the poet José Corazón de ...
The Philippines' American colonial period, which lasted from 1898 to 1946, saw another period of transformation in Philippine music. [2] Santos notes that much of Filipino art music, popular music, as well as semi-classical music predominantly fall under this repertoire.
During the American colonial period (1898–1946), a recorded number of more than 800,000 Americans were born in the Philippines. [11] [unreliable source] Other large concentrations of Filipinos with American ancestry outside Metro Manila are located in the areas of former US bases, such as the Subic Bay area in Zambales and Clark Field in ...