The Antoway, the Ayoweng, and the Chag-ay isnan Achug (Songs for the Dead) of the Bontoks made a mark of prominence in the arena of Bontok indigenous poetry and they are important part of indigenous writing that possessed sharp aesthetic sensibility. It is gratifying to note that the Bontok tribe can count a good number of highly regarded local composers whose songs were revived, polished, and in some cases modernized forgotten Western melodies. Hence, some Bontok tribe’s songs become important constituents of mass media to transport the intended message to the audience, combined with the thought-provoking storyline. In examining the history of Bontok tribe’s literature in the Northern hinterland of the Philippines, there are local composers who have contributed unique lyrics acted as a solid mechanism offering hopefulness in miserable situations and also influence in helpless lives. In doing so, it adds to the contemporary thoughtful understanding of Bontok indigenous tradition, as they are deceptively eliminated of the impression of the past, recontextualized in today’s literature and music curriculum, and associated in contemporary free issues and concerns in the Bontok community.Ī complete understanding of the part that Bontok indigenous songs play in a people’s literature requires a brief and general discussion of the literature as a whole. It attempts to express how prototype and relevance theory can improve not only a thematic analysis of the selected songs, but also the extra-textual interpretations that can be drawn from them. This paper then organizes the framework of Prototype and Relevance Theory and applies it to the selected songs found in the three collections. Most of the studies of Bontok songs in Bontoc, Mountain Province, Philippines have focused on the need to preserve an aspect of the “Ifuntok” (people of Bontoc) society, but the major aim of this paper first proposes an understanding of the Tokwifi’s “Antoway”, Bacwaden’s “Ayyoweng”, and Khensay’s “Chag-ay”, commonly regarded as songs of the Bontoks during wakes and funerals, taking into consideration its intrinsic potential on literary themes and musicality.
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