TY - JOUR
T1 - Kundiman and Catastrophe
T2 - The Torrential Aesthetics of the Folk Kundiman
AU - Lacuna, Isabela Laura
PY - 2022
Y1 - 2022
N2 - The kundiman has been hailed as the Tagalog region’s typical love song, and holds a special and enduring place in the Philippine popular imagination. While it is often interpreted for its national and political overtones, less noticed perhaps are the kundiman’s articulations of weather-knowledge, of which there are many references of interest to ecocritical scholars. This article analyses the catastrophic intersections between historical, political, and literary storms through re-readings of the folk kundimans in Wenceslao Retana’s El Indio Batangueño, Manuel Walls y Merino’s La Musica Popular de Filipinas, and Jose Rizal’s poetry and prose, and argues that there is a torrential aesthetic of slippage that still very much informs contemporary discourses regarding the intertwined nature of climatic, social, and political catastrophe
AB - The kundiman has been hailed as the Tagalog region’s typical love song, and holds a special and enduring place in the Philippine popular imagination. While it is often interpreted for its national and political overtones, less noticed perhaps are the kundiman’s articulations of weather-knowledge, of which there are many references of interest to ecocritical scholars. This article analyses the catastrophic intersections between historical, political, and literary storms through re-readings of the folk kundimans in Wenceslao Retana’s El Indio Batangueño, Manuel Walls y Merino’s La Musica Popular de Filipinas, and Jose Rizal’s poetry and prose, and argues that there is a torrential aesthetic of slippage that still very much informs contemporary discourses regarding the intertwined nature of climatic, social, and political catastrophe
KW - kundiman
KW - catastrophe
KW - talinghaga
KW - environmental tropes
KW - Nineteenth-century literature
UR - https://thecordillerareview.upb.edu.ph/abstract/kundiman-and-catastrophe-the-torrential-aesthetics-of-the-folk-kundiman/
M3 - Article
SN - 2094-0262
VL - XII
SP - 13
EP - 38
JO - The Cordillera Review
JF - The Cordillera Review
IS - 1 & 2
ER -