Indigenous Media and Popular Culture in the Philippines: Representations, Voices, and Resistance

Acknowledgments
Contents
Notes on Contributors
List of Figures
1 Indigenous Media and Pop Culture Studies in the Philippines
	What Are Indigenous Media and Popular Culture?
	Indigenous Media and Pop Culture Studies as a Field
	Trends and Gaps in the Philippines
		Media Entry and Functions in Indigenous Lives
		Texts, Portrayals, and Meanings
		Gaps and Research Trajectories
	The Book
	References
Part I The Indigenous in Contemporary Regional Films
2 Negotiations on Necropolitics and Death in the Cinema on the Indigenous Peoples of Mindanao
	Riddles and Death
	The Cultural Fiat
	References
3 Distress in the Agusan Marshlands: Mapping Landscapes of Fear in Francis Xavier Pasion’s Bwaya (2014)
	Projecting Fear in Landscapes
	Producing Fear in Cinema
	The Manobo Cosmology
	Landscape of Fear
	Fear of Nature in Bwaya (2014)
	Distress in the Agusan Marshlands
	References
Part II Self Representation, Resistance, and Counternarratives
4 Igorot Self-Representation in the #proud_to_be_an_igorot_challenge on Facebook
	Theory and Method
	Rhetorical Context: Who Are the Igorots?
	Rhetorical Argument: The Hashtag as Enthymeme
	Rhetorical Effect: Blind Spots of the Enthymeme?
	Conclusion
	References
5 Contemporary Vernacular Music Broadcasting and Indigenous Cultural Mediation in Baguio City, Philippines
	Contemporary Music Production and Indigenous Mediation in the Philippine Cordillera
	Local Broadcasting as an Extension of Cultural Mediation
	Baguio Radio and Contemporary Vernacular “Indigenous” Music
		Brief History
		Motivations and Constraints
	Concluding Remarks
	References
6 Reflexive Performance in Digital Spaces as Cultural Agency Among the Manobo-Pulanguiyen
	Introduction
	Indigenous Peoples, Cultural Performances, and Digital Spaces
	Manobo-Pulanguiyen’s Cultural Performances in the Digital Space
	Reflexive Performance
	Manobo Indigeneity and Social Media Use
	Reflexive Performance as Strategic Mechanism
	Conclusion
	References
7 Reframing and Reclaiming Kulintang Music: Countering Written History with Contemporary Reality
	Densmore’s Article and 1904 St. Louis World’s Fair
	Reclaiming and Reframing Through Performance
	Analysis with Theoretical Input
	Conclusion
	References
Part III Configurations of Space, Values, and Histories
8 When Lumad Youth (Re)Write the Indigenous and the Juvenile: Constructiveness in Children’s Books Told by Children
	Constructedness, Constructiveness, and Autopoiesis
	Children’s Books Written by Lumad Youth
	Constructive Indigeneity and Juvenility
	The Possibility of Exchange
	References
9 Lumad Indigenous Values and Voices in Citizen and Alternative Media Narratives
	The Lumad Fight for Cultural Integrity
	Lumad Indigenous Values
	Lumad Indigenous Values Vs. Neoliberal Values
		Nature as Sacred
		Nature as a Communal Source
		Nature/Land as Culture, Identity, and Peace
	Summary, Conclusion, and Recommendations
	References
10 The Redness of Balitok in Ibaloy Folklore and Literature
	Introduction
	The Resistance of Kutnon
	The Separation of Earth and Sky
	The Redness of Balitok as a Metaphor
	References
11 Space, Memory, and the Right to Be Remembered: The Case of the Heroes’ Monument of the Butbut Tribe in Kalinga Province
	Introduction
	Monuments as Artifacts of Popular Culture
	Cultural History, Politics of Space, and Politics of Memory
	Anti-Chico Dam Struggle: 1970s to 1980s
		Narrative of the State and Its Forces
		Narrative of the Indigenous Peoples of the Cordillera
		Media Coverage and Reportage
	The Construction and Demolition of the Heroes’ Monument
		Narrative of the State and its Forces
		Narrative of the Cordillera People and the Struggle
		Media Coverage and Reportage
	Analysis
		Politics of Space
		Politics of Memory, the Right to Remember, and the Right to Be Remembered
	Revising and Distorting History: Then and Now
	Conclusion
	References