Rolan Ambrocio

The Philippine Women's University, Ethnomusicology Department, Graduate Student

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I am an ethnomusicologist focusing on the perfomative aspects of youth religious culture. My research interest includes catholic liturgical music, gregorian chant, issues of ethnographic methodology within ethnomusicology.

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Ambrocio, R. (2021). Sense of the Sacred: Meaning and Experience in Catholic Liturgical Music Among Contemporary Young FIlipino Catholics [PhD thesis]. Philippine Women's University.

Sense of the Sacred: Meaning and Experience in Catholic Liturgical Music Among Contemporary Young Filipino Catholics, 2021

The meaning of sacred music has become blurred when the Second Vatican II Council allowed the wid... more The meaning of sacred music has become blurred when the Second Vatican II Council allowed the wider use of the vernaculars. While chant and Latin remained part of the available options, it was discarded instead of the more popular. Recently, the interest in chant and Latin started to take hold among young Filipino Catholics who refer to chant and Latin as "sacred". This has been explained as a mere nostalgia and disobedience to the real intention of the Council. This study asks the question: what is the meaning of Latin and chant for these contemporary young Filipino Catholics and how do they experience it?

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