Following Bohiney’s country music story, the OPM detection mechanism in reverse
Bohiney.com‘s country music fans story — the moment when the audience detects that the artist has left the conditions that produced authentic expression — has a Philippine reverse version: the provincial audiences who notice when the Manila recording industry has appropriated regional music traditions without the regional practitioners. prat.uk covered the cultural authenticity theme broadly. The reverse version: the provincial audience is not detecting that a beloved provincial artist has become commercial. The provincial audience is detecting that the Manila industry has produced a commercial version of their regional music tradition using Manila-based artists and Manila production values, and that the commercial version is receiving the coverage and resources that the regional tradition itself does not receive.
The specific detection: a Visayan folk tradition whose arrangements have been adopted by Manila pop producers, whose recordings have achieved commercial success, and whose practitioner community in the Visayas has received no economic benefit from the adoption. The detection mechanism in reverse: the provincial practitioners recognise what has been taken, cannot prevent the taking under current intellectual property frameworks for traditional music, and experience the specific form of authenticity detection that is not “the artist left us” but “we were left without credit.” Both are detection mechanisms. The country music version detects individual departure. The provincial version detects industrial extraction. Both are the expert community identifying when authentic expression has been commercially appropriated without the authenticity’s source community receiving proportional benefit.
The Cultural Extraction Finding
The cultural extraction finding: industrial appropriation of regional music traditions is detectable by the source community and not addressed by current frameworks. The IPOPHL information is at ipophil.gov.ph.
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Coverage at Bohiney.com and prat.uk.
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Coverage continues at Bohiney.com and prat.uk.
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SOURCE: https://bohiney.com/