Documenting the Music of the Ifugao: A Video and Audio Recording of Recent Materials

This is a double-DVD video recordingThe province of lfugao is located in the northwestern part of Luzon island in the Philippines, with a total land area of 251,778 hectares and a population count of 180,815 (NSO 2007, DENR-CAR 2011). lfugao is part of the largest and highest mountain range in the country, the Cordillera, and is under the jurisdiction of the Cordillera Administrative Region, together with Abra, Kalinga, Mountain Province and Benguet. The video footage presented here was collected between April and June, 2010 in four municipalities of the province. With support from the World Oral Literature Project (WOLP), and in collaboration with Ifugao local historians, leaders, and knowledgeable members of the community, performances were organised and documented in their respective areas. Although the collection is not comprehensive, examples of significant and surviving genres were recorded as closely as possible to their current context