Document Type
Honors Project
Abstract
Filipino National Artist Lucrecia “King” Kasilag sought to preserve folk cultures and melded these with her Western training to produce works—scholarly, pedagogical, and compositional—that shaped national music and culture. This thesis is a critical biography that combines perspectives from postcolonial studies, political economy, and musicology to highlight forces that shaped Kasilag’s life while illustrating her successes and shortcomings on national culture. Through this biography, I argue, Filipino national culture must originate from intersectional struggles and negotiation among elites and masses; that this culture is about both resistance and acceptance—a national culture that is syncretic and quintessentially dynamic.
Recommended Citation
Cosme, Paul Gabriel L., "King Behind Colonial Curtains: Kasilag and the Making of Filipino National Culture" (2022). International Studies Honors Projects. 40.
https://digitalcommons.macalester.edu/intlstudies_honors/40
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