Deadline: 15 January 2011
After the Mondo Marcos, we decided to come out with a proposal for a new volume probing Martial Law and the Marcoses. For “The Ballads of Malakas and Maganda,” we decided to concentrate on essays – whether personal or scholarly, critical or even graphic. We also wanted the contributions to dwell on the conjugal cult of personality, or how Ferdinand and Imelda Marcos shaped us and history.
Among the topics already promised are:
1. The Marcos cults
2. The ten most influential TV series during the Marcos era
3. The Marcos films
4. The Marcos epics
We are particularly interested in getting contributions from Moros during the civil war in the 1970s, Marcos loyalists, Kabataang Barangay leaders and those from the other side like the exiles, children of KM and other underground groups, and others. We also wanted contributions about how the Marcos image was sold through the mass media and others. We want to get insider views about how arts and culture fared during the dictatorship. But these are just suggestions. If you read Mondo Marcos, we want a mix of the trivial, compelling, sober, crazy, campy, heartbreaking, sacred, profane, the true, good and the beautiful.
If we get enough contributions, we plan to divide the volume into Ballad of Malakas (Marcosian) and Ballad of Maganda (Imeldific). Our deadline would be on January 15. Essays can be in English, Filipino or both.
Contributions can be sent through email at these addresses:
brutallyfrank@gmail.com
rolando.tolentino@gmail.com
After the Mondo Marcos, we decided to come out with a proposal for a new volume probing Martial Law and the Marcoses. For “The Ballads of Malakas and Maganda,” we decided to concentrate on essays – whether personal or scholarly, critical or even graphic. We also wanted the contributions to dwell on the conjugal cult of personality, or how Ferdinand and Imelda Marcos shaped us and history.
Among the topics already promised are:
1. The Marcos cults
2. The ten most influential TV series during the Marcos era
3. The Marcos films
4. The Marcos epics
We are particularly interested in getting contributions from Moros during the civil war in the 1970s, Marcos loyalists, Kabataang Barangay leaders and those from the other side like the exiles, children of KM and other underground groups, and others. We also wanted contributions about how the Marcos image was sold through the mass media and others. We want to get insider views about how arts and culture fared during the dictatorship. But these are just suggestions. If you read Mondo Marcos, we want a mix of the trivial, compelling, sober, crazy, campy, heartbreaking, sacred, profane, the true, good and the beautiful.
If we get enough contributions, we plan to divide the volume into Ballad of Malakas (Marcosian) and Ballad of Maganda (Imeldific). Our deadline would be on January 15. Essays can be in English, Filipino or both.
Contributions can be sent through email at these addresses:
brutallyfrank@gmail.com
rolando.tolentino@gmail.com
