Basagan ng trip : complaints about Filipino culture and politics / Lisandro E. Claudio.
Material type: TextMandaluyong City : Anvil Publishing, Inc., c2016Description: xii, 148 pages 23 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9789712732393
- PN 4784.F37 .C571 2016
Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Filipiniana | Aklatang Emilio Aguinaldo-Information Resource Center Filipiniana | PN 4784.F37 .C571 2016 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 3FIL2019016541 |
"Walang basagan ng trip," is one of the vilest phrases in colloquial Tagalog, reflecting a long anti-critic tradition in Philippine arts. When artists use the term, they are asking critical voices to shut up and smile: Don't criticize my work (my "trip"); we're all just trying to be happy here. Shouldn't art, after all, be fun? Being a critic and essayist was, one could say, my only means of self-expression. Indeed, I cannot create, so I just complain. I've made some complaints that have offended many (declaring OPM dead) and I've made some more popular ones (calling out Tito Sotto for being a sexist). And, yes, I am proud to call them complaints, because complainers believe that things are wrong and can be changed. Welcome to the world of the second-class citizen in the republic of arts and letters-the much-maligned "tagabasag ng trip."Basagan ng Trip: Complaints About Filipino Culture and Politics.
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