After four years of silence, this Epics and Ballads Collection that has been built up in collaboration with several National Cultural Communities of the Philippines and in their home land has been upgraded, emulated in 2023-2024. It has been enriched with many videos and provides complementary documents in PDF contextualizing and analyzing the sonic compositions by the very people involved in this research since 1990.
The website reconstruction is in line with the original information structure and approach, but using today’s technology. The collection of epics and ballads allows the public to listen to 16 indigenous languages and epic poems from various areas of the Philippines in relation to the now established texts in PDF.
This collection consists of 240 Audio-tapes, 53 CDs, 3 Hard Disks; 8,091 pages of Texts phonemically transcribed in 16 vernacular languages then translated to English, or Tagalog or French. The16 National Cultural Groups involved in this safeguarding are: Ifugao, Sama, Tausug, Tagbanwa, Tala-andig Bukidnon, Manobo, Kalinga, Ikalahan, Mamanwa, T’boli, Itneg, Tagalog, Maranao, Sulod Panay or Panay Bukidnon, Palawan, and Tao.
The texts of the narratives are bounded in 34 printed volumes; a gallery of 2028 Photos with captions, 74 articles in English and 54 Videos complement them.
This physical archive is housed and safeguarded at the Pardo de Tavera Special Collections of Ateneo de Manila University, Rizal Library, in Quezon City and accessible for consultation in situ as well.
The files of the Collection are presented as is, to enable researchers to analyze and process the content using their own resources.
You can register at the following website: epics.ateneo.edu
After registration, the website is accessible on most modern web browsers on both Mac and PC operating systems. It is also accessible on a mobile device such as a smartphone or tablet, running iOS or Android. The mobile version of the site may look and function differently, because the design elements adjust for smaller screens.
You can also download the poster in PDF for more information.
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