San Francisco Kulintang Legacy
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content: Smithsonian Institution. Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage
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content: Smithsonian Folklife Festival records: 2017 Smithsonian Folklife Festival
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content: Smithsonian Folklife Festival records: 2017 Smithsonian Folklife Festival / Series 2: Circus Arts / Audio
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content: 1 Sound recording (digital audio file)
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content: 2017 July 07
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections
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content: CFCH.SFF.2017, Item SFF2017_0707_Circus_Arts_Jubilee_Stage_0002
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content: Archival materials
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content: Sound recordings
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content: Listening copies available
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content: Theo Gonzalvez (presenter); Rocco Ray; Conrad J. Benedicto; Theo Gonzales; Brian Batugo; Alexis Camillo; Manuel Dragon; Titania Bucholdt; Lydia Neff San Francisco Kulintang Legacy presents traditional kulintang ensemble music and traditional dances of the Maguindanaon and Maranao cultures of the Philippines, as taught in the United States by NEA National Heritage Fellow Danongan Danny  Kalanduyan (c. 1947-2016). Before the arrival of Islamic missionaries in the 1400s and European missionaries in the 1500s, this complex and varied music was played by many cultures spread throughout the Philippine archipelago. Today, this indigenous music is played primarily in the Southern Philippines but it has been embraced by second-, third-, and fourth-generation Filipino Americans in part through the work of artists like Kalanduyan. From California, Virginia, and Washington state, the group performing at the Festival is comprised of artists from among the many students and collaborators who worked with Kalanduyan over the last four decades.