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| Mainstream popularity | generally popular in the Visayas region of the Philippines |
BisRock is the music genre propagated by the Cebu rock music industry in the Philippines. The term comes from the Cebuano words Bisaya, referring the Visayan language, and rock, for rock music.
The term was coined by Cebuano writer Januar E. Yap in 20021 and was first applied to Missing Filemon's first album.
Earning wide reception among the young in the Visayas and Mindanao, Bisrock is a recent cultural phenomenon. This is however, highly debatable, as Visayans, primarily Cebuanos, are the only ones actually making a big fuss out of this so-called musical "genre".
Bisrock actually started around the 1980's when someone started calling Cebu's rock scene as Bisrock, but it wasn't popular right away; the packaging wasn't right just yet. The current scene or influence at that time was that of new wave, punk, thrash metal, and British Rock bands, hence nobody cared to call it Bisrock and when someone did, he was ridiculed as too Bisaya; and the composition of the lyrics was not in Cebuano but in English.
During this time a group of punks from the University of San Carlos coined the local music scene as Bisrock in support of patriotism for the Cebuano music scene, but then again "Local Ground" took off stealing from the phrase "Underground movement" of the Punk scene which gained much popularity among the Cebuanos, after which the word Bisrock took the back seat for a time being; it took about almost two decades for some writer to call it such and made it a household name in the Philippines. This claim is dubious as very few people outside of Cebu has actually heard of this genre, if it can actually be considered as such.citation needed
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BisRock bands
Cebuano rock bands popularizing songs written in the Cebuano language include:
- Smooth Friction
- Aggressive Audio
- Blood of the Stone
- Enchi
- Gangrene
- Glass of Dirt
- Indephums
- Jimmycycle
- Mantequilla
- Missing Filemon
- Phylum
- Scrambled Eggs
- Timeslot
- Yield
See also
External links
- The Bisrock Observer
- Bisrock Rules
- BisRock Cafe
- Handuraw Jamroom
- B!SDAK CENTRAL - local online social community dedicated to all bisdaks around the world.
References
- ^ "Januar E. Yap on Bisrock". Retrieved on 2008-04-09.
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