Janine Liao

Celebrating the beauty and wonder of our bamboo musical traditions.

Presenting the 5th publication of the BMI Project Year 1, “Tradition and Innovation: People, Places, and Practices of Bamboo Music in the Philippines”. This project is made possible through the cooperation of the following institutes and agencies:

The Department of Science & Technology
The DOST Philippine Council for Industry, Energy and Emerging Technology Research and Development
The DOST Forest Products Research and Development Institute
The University of the Philippines
The UP Center for Ethnomusicology
The UP Electrical and Electronics Engineering Institute
and The Philippine Normal University

This is the culmination of research and ethnography conducted by the BMI Project 1 Team from 2019 until 2022. The beautiful book showcases a peek into the large world of bamboo music culture in the Philippines.

“Tradition and Innovation: People, Places, and Practices of Bamboo Music in the Philippines”.
Essays by John Joseph S. Coronel.

A publication of the UP Center for Ethnomusicology.

Janine Liao is the Educational Dissemination Manager of the UPCE, and also a lecturer from the UP College of Music. Her research interests include popular music, traditional kulintang music, meanings and functions of music in the social sphere, and music theory and analysis. When not working on more academic things, she is a cat mom and a kitchen hero who actively volunteers for church ministry.

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