Musicologist Dr. Maria Alexandra I帽igo-Chua of the聽Conservatory of Music聽presented her research paper entitled 鈥淢usic at the Margins: Transculturation in 19th-Century Colonial manila鈥� at the 2019 Intercongerssional Symposium of the International Musicological Society (IMS). The symposium was held from July 7-10, 2019, in Lucerne, Switzerland.
Chua鈥檚 paper 鈥渆xamined aspects of the music transculturation process brought about by the rise of music capitalism in nineteenth-century colonial Manila, prompting secular European popular music to thrive that triggered the unfolding of transnational music genres.鈥� She 鈥渁rgued that the institution of the music market in the colony fostered the practice of music composition in which the locals got engaged in the creative aspect of music writing and publishing.鈥�
Chua鈥檚 paper focused studied the works of a pioneering native composer of the period, Julio Nakpil (1867-1960), 鈥渢o understand the process of musical transculturation that negotiated the entanglements of the local with the predominant globalizing ideologies such as capitalism, industrialization, secularism and later nationalism as embodied in the music compositions.鈥�
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