Darangen epic of the Maranao people of Lake Lanao

Inscribed in 2008 (3.COM) on the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity (originally proclaimed in 2005) Country(ies): Philippines

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Darangen epic of the Maranao people of Lake Lanao 2007 by R.Rastrollo/NCCA-IHC The Darangen is an ancient epic song that encompasses a wealth of knowledge of the Maranao people who live in the Lake Lanao region of Mindanao. This southernmost island of the Philippine archipelago is the traditional homeland of the Maranao, one of the countrys three main Muslim groups. Comprising 17 cycles and a total of 72,000 lines, the Darangen celebrates episodes from Maranao history and the tribulations of mythical heroes. In addition to having a compelling narrative content, the epic explores the underlying themes of life and death, courtship, love and politics through symbol, metaphor, irony and satire. The Darangen also encodes customary law, standards of social and ethical behaviour, notions of aesthetic beauty, and social values specific to the Maranao. To this day, elders refer to this time-honoured text in the administration of customary law. Meaning literally to narrate in song, the Darangen existed before the Islamization of the Philippines in the fourteenth century and is part of a wider epic culture connected to early Sanskrit traditions extending through most of Mindanao. Though the Darangen has been largely transmitted orally, parts of the epic have been recorded in manuscripts using an ancient writing system based on the Arabic script. Specialized female and male performers sing the Darangen during wedding celebrations that typically last several nights. Performers must possess a prodigious memory, improvisational skills, poetic imagination, knowledge of customary law and genealogy, a flawless and elegant vocal technique, and the ability to engage an audience during long hours of performance. Music and dance sometimes accompany the chanting.

Nowadays, the Darangen is less frequently performed owing in part to its rich vocabulary and archaic linguistic forms, which can only be understood by practitioners, elders and scholars. Indeed, the growing tendency to embrace mainstream Filipino lifestyles may represent a threat to the survival of this ancient epic.

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Jojo Unalivia / UNESCO

 Jojo Unalivia / UNESCO

Jojo Unalivia / UNESCO

 Jojo Unalivia / UNESCO

Renato S. Rastrollo / NCCA -ICH /UNESCO

 2007 by R.Rastrollo/NCCA-IHC

2007 by R.Rastrollo/NCCA-IHC

 2007 by R.Rastrollo/NCCA-IHC

2007 by R.Rastrollo/NCCA-IHC

 2007 by R.Rastrollo/NCCA-IHC

2007 by R.Rastrollo/NCCA-IHC

 2007 by R.Rastrollo/NCCA-IHC

2007 by J. Ualivia/NCCA-IHC

 2007 by J. Ualivia/NCCA-IHC

2007 by J. Ualivia/NCCA-IHC

 2007 by J. Ualivia/NCCA-IHC

2007 by J. Ualivia/NCCA-IHC

 2007 by J. Ualivia/NCCA-IHC

2007 by J. Ualivia/NCCA-IHC

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School of the Highlands (Higa-onon)

Original comment: School of the highlands - Higa-onon community

Although this video mainly deals with the educatio Higaonon, interspersed samples of traditional musi seen: the beating of the binanug rhythm (hawk da agung in the very beginning, later repeated (at 1:47 the binanug can finally be seen, as well as, just for typical way the agung is played by two people, one knob, the other one on the rim (3:03). We hear the the Philippines sung by school children and have a performance of a ceremony, showing the priest (ba the altar (bangkas) (2:02).

For more information, please, read my article on B and Dance. Uploaded to YouTube on November 10, 2006 by niz82

School of the Highlands (Bukidnon)

Original comment: School of the highlands [in] Guilang-Guilang, Ma Bukidnon

This video about Guilang-Guilang is of highest int personally visited this place in 1982. Although it m the educational situation of the Bukidnon, interspe traditional music can be heard and seen: the playin

spike fiddle dayuday, with background noises of th 1:24), the speech-song dasang of the tribal leader, which is repeated later and copied by a young boy women dancing the dugs, while singing the tabk ends with a performance of the binanug (hawk da same or similar dance rhythms can be heard as an a other dances as well: buw-buw, pig-agawan, ina kinindaan. The dance rhythm is played on a bambo Guilang-Guilang called tagungtung, in other places

For more information, please, read my article on B and Dance. Uploaded to YouTube on November 10, 2006 by niz82

Rule of the Gun in Sugarland

Original comment: A powerful documentary by the late Joey Lozano Manobo villagers' efforts to claim their ancestral la Philippines and the abuse they endured because of Contains both graphic and heart wrenching scenes.

This touching documentary just leaves me speechle hardly start commenting on the included music...

Uploaded to YouTube on November 17, 2006 by amalahi

Documentary on the Talaandig Tribe of Bukidnon

Original comment: Talaandig tribe of Bukidnon, 5 minutes, incomple

This is a short documentary about the Talaandig pe Bukidnon. At the end of the video, two dances are (hawk dance) and dugs, the ceremonial dance o music, which can be heard throughout the video, h nothing to do with Talaandig music. Actually, for s

solo drum player can be seen (but not heard) in the providing the real, traditional accompaniment.

ATTENTION: This video includes two photograph taken from my website without asking permission Look at the original source: http://aedv.cs.tuberlin.de/~brandeis/lumad.html Additional nuissance: My first picture, allegedly sh people, actually shows Higaonon from Agusan de photograph should not just be labelled Manobo, bu Tigwa Manobo from Southeastern Bukidnon. Uploaded to YouTube on September 1, 2006 by shihman2001

ES GALI
Original comment: TALAANDIG TRIBE SONG

This is a performance by Waway Saway, well-kno musician from Songco, Lantapan, Bukidnon, one o research assistants. The music he is playing in this has hardly anything to do with traditional Talaandi Waway uses here a 2-stringed hegelung lute of the the traditional Talaandig instrument called katiyap should be much bigger. And he strums the lute like own way. Nevertheless, this neo-tribal music, on own compositions, definitely transports the younge sentiments of a newly developed Talaandig tribal i Probably recorded at the beach of Boracay island. Uploaded to YouTube on April 29, 2007 by regiben1

Tigwa Manobo Dance in Bukidnon

Original comment: A rare video taken from the deep mountains of Ki Fernando, Bukidnon, Philippines, of the Manobo T dance. Courtesy of Rev. Kim of the PROK Presbyt Rev. Goel Bagundol, chairperson of the Bukidnon Conference (UCCP).

Myself, I was in Kibongkog in 1993; for more info

On the video, you can see and hear the small bamb then the 2-string boat lute kuglung played in combi bamboo tube zither salurey, and, finally, the percus bangkakawan. The video shows a stage choreograp dancing, which is not traditional and was probably annual Kaamulan Festival in Malaybalay. Also, the lute, zither and log drum as shown here is not tradi elements themselves are, of course, very typical fo music. Uploaded to YouTube on April 2, 2006 by fellester

Kuglung (lute) and salurey (bamboo zither of the Matigsalug Manobo

Original comment: Courtship Dance of Bukidnon's Matigsalog-Mano

In the original title, the lute is called "kudlong". Ho everywhere I went, the Manobo called the instrume

Uploaded to YouTube on August 26, 2007 by igorwoods

Matigsalug Music

Original comment: Matigsalog people use logs as musical instrument and unique sound.

This instrument is called bangkakawan. It is usuall pairs of women stamping the log at both ends, as w hitting it in its middle while performing a kind of p tells a specific story. Another picture and an audio on my website here: CLICK

Uploaded to YouTube on September 27, 2007 by arkipelagofilmprods

Monkey Dance
Original comment: Taken in Barangay Camansi, Mindanao

Im not very sure which tribal group is presented h several villages in the Philippines, which are called people in the video look very much like Ata or Ma Manobo, I guess that their place must be Barangay Municipality of Montevista, Compostela Valley Pr Barangay Camansi, Toril District, Davao City, Isla

The dance rhythm is beaten on an empty plastic co substitute for a drum or agung.

Uploaded to YouTube on January 06, 2008 by euntes

A Christmas Carol by a Bukidnon Manob

Original comment: An authentic Manobo woman carolling an establi Fortich, Bukidnon in December 2007.

It seems that this woman, probably a Tigwa or Mat came from somewhere in southern Bukidnon, may Fernando area. She is playing an idiochord bamboo salurey.

Uploaded to YouTube on January 06, 2008 by gwargz

Log drum edel accompanies dance

of the Blaan

According to the original comment, this is suppose Victory Dance, Philippines 1960s The Manobo/M Proto-Austronesian peoples from Mindanao in the is a traditional victory dance performed after a succ hunting raid. This video was taken by anthropologi in the 1960s. According to the best of my knowledge, however, here are Blaan and the log drum played here looks of the Blaan...

Uploaded to YouTube on March 30, 2007 by anak1

Courtship Dance of the Blaan

Original comment: A courtship dance of the B'LAAN, native of Sout Sarangani Province The similarities between Blaan and Tboli dancing

Uploaded to YouTube on December 20, 2006 by spirits323

School of the Highlands (Blaan)

Original comment: School of the highlands - Blaan community

Although this video mainly deals with the educatio Blaan, interspersed samples of traditional music ca seen: a little bit of boat lute (faglung) playing and s woman.

Uploaded to YouTube on November 10, 2006 by niz82

School of the Highlands (Ubo)

Original comment: School of the highlands - Ubo community

Although this video mainly deals with the educatio Ubo, interspersed samples of traditional music can solo singing of a woman and boat lute playing with

Uploaded to YouTube on November 10, 2006 by niz82

Bagobo Agung Ensemble, Philippines 1960s

Original comment: The Bagobo are an indigenous Proto-Austronesia Mindanao, the Philippines. Here is a traditional Ba ensemble taken by anthropologist Robert Garfias in the 1960s. The Agung is closely related to the sou Kulintang tradition, and distantly related to Indone musical genres.

Uploaded to YouTube on March 14, 2007 by anak1

Manobo agung (ahong) Ensemble, Philippines, 1960s

Original comment: The Manuvu/Manobo are an indigenous proto-Au inhabiting the highland regions of Mindanao island Philippines. They are somewhat culturally akin to t Bagobo, Bukidnon, Mandaya and Mansaka people shared musical traditions of these groups is the "Ag ensemble consisting of hung gongs played during r ceremonies. Agung ensembles are played by variou Philippines and Borneo.

This video was taken by famed Ethnomusicologist Robert Garfias on Mindanao island in the southern 1960s. Further information on Mr. Garfias and his found at: http://aris.ss.uci.edu/rgarfias/ Uploaded to YouTube on October 08, 2007 by anak1

LIKHA - Bagobo Rice Cycle

Original comment: First performed by the Ramon Obusan Folkloric G part of "Durian: Isang Alamat Bagobo", LIKHA pr debut of the rice cycle portion of the original ROFG with the clearing of the field in preparation for plan harvesting. Artistic Director: Rudi Soriano Consultant: Ramon Obusan When: Ethnic Dance Festival June 12, 2004 Where: Palace of Fine Arts, San Francisco Join our dance workshops at www.likha.org

It has to be kept in mind that this is a stage present who are NOT tribal people. I have a problem with performance authentic. But its nice to watch, an

Uploaded to YouTube on May 25, 2006 by likhasf

Project Saksi Tribal Dance of the Subanen

Original comment: The Project Saksi Students performed their tribal their Subanen Culture/Tradition during the First Gr at Kanangan, Titik, Sindangan/Leon Postigo, Zamb Philippines.

As there are hardly any materials on Subanen musi a very rare and informative source!

The manner of playing an agung presented here, by one hitting the boss with a beater, the other one hit two thinner sticks, is widespread in Mindanao. I ob playing technique among the Higaonon of Agusan among the Bukidnon and Tigwahanon of Bukidnon Uploaded to YouTube on November 15, 2006 by : PMCERNAL

The Sacred Rice Vine of the Subanen

Original comment: The pangasi of the Subanen tribe in Lake Wood, Sur, Mindanao, Philippines. Video made by Filipp 2007.

The video shows the production of the rice vine pa during a ritual. Some ritual music and chanting can

Uploaded to YouTube on January 07, 2008 by euntes

Stallsmiths in Philippines
Original comment: Encouraging Heart Music worship

As far as I understand, this is a video about the life missionary, Glenn Stallsmith, and his family in the between 2001 and 2007. Glenn obviously incorpor traditional music in his missionary work. He was o the Northern as well as in the Southern Philippines

The song underlying the first part of the video is a song from Mindanao, probably of the Umayamnon accompanied on a 2-stringed lute kuglung. Dont g associated pictures show scenes from Northern Luz playing gangsa gongs (1:55) or bamboo stampers ( dancing (3:01). After the Manobo song is finished, performance of a modern Umayamnon Manobo so Kalinga playing gangsa and bamboo stampers, as a of a church song (4:09) Uploaded to YouTube on May 15, 2007 by glennstallsmith

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