Architecture

In the Philippines, architecture has gone through so many changes along with time and the
influences of its colonists especially the Spaniards and Americans with their many years of
taking over the Philippines. During the Pre-Spanish period. Philippine architecture was
made of bamboo and nipa and seldom were their houses made of stones. In the Philippines, it
is best known as the Bahay-Kubo which even in the present times, still exist usually resided
upon by lowland dwellers in the country.

In the American Commonwealth Period, there was the establishment of a civil government
thus the American mission style architecture which are buildings of commerce in their
modern 20th century and Greek-like building styles. Today. Contemporary Architecture in
the Philippines succumbed to the modem-mundane style which includes the concrete
structure of cities.
American
Contemporary Architecture
Commonwealth
Period

VILLA LITARES ( ANGEL CUM SCHOOL) IN ILOILO The Mind Museum IN TAGUIG CITY

Music & Dance

CAKEWALK JAZZ
foxtrot Ragtime
In Prehistoric times, dance was usually a communal affair and remained essential with the
emergence of high civilizations, social/caste made it felt and developed into a form of art.
Specially, the aristocracy created the professional dancer and the spectacle, or theater, dance
limiting its own dancing to a simple exercise that eventually led to ballroom dancing. The
common people excluded from enjoyment of those past times, continued their communal
dancing.

Folk dance tinikling

Primitive Years Among early people, dancing was a popular and common activity with
almost all occasions celebrated by dancing. They danced to the accompanying of gong and
drums to appear the evil spirit whom they believed caused them sickness.
Dance was a part of their religious offerings to their God in nature.
• War Dance- intended to incite the fighting of the warriors, commonly performed to
the quick tempo of a drum.
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• Festival Dance- great and exciting occasions for the primitive people

• Courtship/Wedding Dance- performed with intricate hand and body movements

In terms of dancing, the Philippines has Folk dance as its national dance; a dance that
integrates the influences of the colonists as well while still giving it the Filipino touch. This is
up to the present times, being danced in the country but apart from that, many Filipino people
have been enjoying dance crazes through the times Lately, with the application Tiktok, many
dances also surfaced being danced by many Filipino youths shared on social media platforms.
In the Japanese Occupation, American entertainment we’re banned which is why a pro-
Filipino and Japanese virtue was encouraged in the music industry. In the late 70's, Metro
Manila Popular Music Festival a song writing competition boosted the creation of new pop
songs.
It was in this time that the Organisasyon ng mga Pilipinong Mang-aawit (OPM), was
created for Filipino popular artists. OPM also means Original Pilipino Music; music
composed and performed by Filipinos, even with its ultimate use of English for the lyrics.
Today, a lot of international popular music is being consumed by many Filipinos especially
Hollywood and Korean-pop music. Thankfully, OPM songs remain to be famous.
Filipino music has evolved over time due to various cultural influences from pre-colonial to
modern eras. Indigenous music was nature-based while the Spanish introduced religious and
operatic music. Americans brought genres like pop, rock, and jazz. Japanese occupation
suppressed foreign music.
Paintings
It is said that there is no specific tradition when it comes to painting in the Philippines which
means that there is no particular pattern being followed by the artists. Some famous paintings
in the Philippines include:
 The Fishermen by Ang Kiukok (1935-2005)

 The Fruit Gatherer of Fernando Amorsolo (1892-1972)

among others which were excellently made and some with a backstory.
The Philippines has a long history of art. Artistic painting was introduced to the Philippines in
the 16th century when the Spaniards arrived in the Philippines. During this time, the
Spaniards used painting as religious propaganda to spread Catholicism throughout the
Philippines. These paintings, mostly appearing on church walls, feature religious figures
appearing in Catholic teaching. Because of the Church's oversight of Filipino art and the
Spanish occupation of the Philippines, the purpose of most paintings from the 16th-19th
centuries was to help the Catholic Church." Since then, art in the Philippines has evolved
and has taken on Contemporary art.

Theater
The Philippine Theater, just like the arts have evolved through time with the influences of the
various cultures the Philippines has been dawned upon.
Before Colonization, Philippine theater was more on verbal jousts, indigenous rituals, songs.
Games and dances to praise gods.
In the Spanish Regime. Spanish people casted off dramas as their instructive tool in
influencing and teaching the Filipinos Christianity. One more significant theater, form
propagated daring the time was the comedia, or the moro-moro.
During the American Colonization, education, media, and language were introduced with its
most obvious influence, the bodabil (vaudeville) including plays and dramas translated or
presented in English.

By the 1940s, as the Japanese commenced, all film equipment got confiscated. The bodabil
comedia and zarzuela endured only as entertainment and expression. From after the Japanese
Occupation to today. Philippine theatre has grown to become an incorporation of the various
influences of all abovementioned, mostly performed in English during the time, until it
became part of classroom education
Literature
Before the Spaniards, records show that Filipinos created epics, poems, songs myths, tales
and legends which must've been imitations from the Indians, elucidating existence through
stories about their lives and the nature, creating brave and patriotic heroes with supernatural
powers.
During Spanish Occupation, literary creativity was quietened as Spaniards promoted
Christianity. In the late nineteenth century though, literature came back as poetry and in
prose, Florante at Laura of Francisco Balagtas was born. Filipinos also wrote in Spanish
where Spaniards then supported creative writing and gave prizes.
In the American occupation, a voice of power and authority came. The first Filipino who
wrote in English took 20 years of studying the new language. Later, writers in English began
to rise in number but were paid very poorly. Nevertheless, it boosted when writers were
offered prizes by the Commonwealth Literary Contest. Filipino Literature has been and
until now a mixture of traditional folk-tales, real life experiences and socio-political histories
often promoting Filipino cultural values and struggles of locals.
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GE 106
TOPIC: HISTORY OF EVOLUTION OF POPULAR
CULTURE IN THE PHILLIPINES
SUB TOPIC: ARTS AND LITERATURE

SUBMITTED BY:
JOAN D. PASOY
BEED 2

SUBMITTED TO:
MS. JESSA CASTAÑO