Music of the Philippines

Music of the Philippines are performance arts composed in various genre, and styles of popular music. These include Rock and roll, Hip hop, and Pop music ranging from Western, and Eastern influence. The music of the Philippines is a mixture of Primitive, European, American, and Asian sounds. Much of the music of the Philippines have been influenced by its Indigenous, and Hispanic heritage.

Early Spanish settlers, and Filipinos used a variety of instruments such as flutes, guitar, ukulele, violin, trumpets, and drums. They performed songs, and dances to celebrate festivities, and other occasions. Most of these folk songs, and dances have remained intact in the 21st century. Nationalistic groups such as the Bayanihan, Filipinescas, and Barangay-Barrio tradition have been performed to celebrate Philippine traditional music.

Modern Philippine music

For the past 20 years, OPM have been located in Manila, where Tagalog, and English are the dominant languages. Other ethnolinguistic groups such as the Visayan, Bikol, and Kapampangan, despite making music in their native languages are not recognized in the OPM category, except in phenomenal cases like the Bisrock (Visayan Rock music) song "Charing" by Davao band 1017.

Multiculturalism advocates, and federalists often connect this to the Tagalog cultural hegemony of the capital city of Manila.

Having successfully created a subgenre of Philippine Rock they called Bisrock, the Visayans by far have the biggest collection of modern music in their native language, with great contributions from Visayan bands Phylum, and Missing Filemon.

Following suit are the Kapampangans. The debut music video of "Oras" (Time) by Tarlac City-based Kapampangan band Mernuts has penetrated MTV Pilipinas, making it the first ever Kapampangan music video to join the ranks of other mainstream Filipino music videos. "RocKapampangan: The Birth of Philippine Kapampangan Rock," an album of modern remakes of folk Kapampangan extemporaneous songs by various Kapampangan bands was also launched last February 2008, which are now regularly played via Kapampangan cable channel Infomax-8 and via one of Central Luzon's biggest FM radio stations, GVFM 99.1. Inspired by what the locals call "Kapampangan cultural renaissance," Angeles City-born balladeer Ronnie Liang rendered Kapampangan translations of some of his popular songs such as "Ayli" (Kapampangan version of "Ngiti"), and "Ika" (Kapampangan version of "Ikaw") for his repackaged album.

Despite the growing clamor for non-Tagalog, and non-English music, and greater representations of other Philippine languages; the local Philippine music industry, which is located in Manila, is still skeptical in making investments. Some of their major reasons include the language barrier, the still-small market, and the demonization of regionalism in the Philippine Islands.

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