Faculty Details

Ricardo Trimillos

facultyimage Professor of Asian Studies
Moore 412

(808) 956-5752
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Educational Background

B.A., San Jose State College, 1962
M.A., University of Hawaii, 1965
Ph.D., University of California at Los Angeles, 1972 


Research / Teaching / Specializations

Music and Filipino folk Catholicism, expressive culture of the Tausug of Sulu, gender and identity in the performing arts of Asia, the arts and public policy

 

Courses Taught

MUS 478G: Music Cultures: Philippines
ASAN 320C: Asian Nations: Philippines
ASAN 491P: Self-determination, identity, and settlers in Mindanao and Hawai'i
ASAN 623 Gender in the Performing Arts of Asia-Pacific
ASAN 620 Topics: Problems and Issues: The Arts and Public Policy in Asia

 

Recent Publications

Cultural Rights, Agency, and Ownership: the Philippines at the 1998 Smithsonian Folklife Festival (2008).

Histories, Resistances, and Reconciliations in a Decolonizable Space: The Philippine Delegation to the 1998 Smithsonian Folklife Festival. Journal of American Folklore 121:479: 60-79 (2008).

Subject, Object and the Ethnomusicology Ensemble: the Ethnomusicological 'We and Them.' Performing Ethnomusicology: Teaching and Representation in World Music Ensembles, edited by Ted Solis. Berkeley: University of California Press (2004).

Taking Risks in Safe Spaces, Playing Safe in Risky Spaces. Narrative/Performance: Cross-Cultural Encounters at APPEX, edited by Judy Mitoma, Ricardo D. Trimillos, Anoosh Jorjorian. Los Angeles: Center for International Performance, UCLA, p.12 - 21. (2004).

Ang Dalagang Pilipina, Representation and Presentation of the Filipino Female in Traditional Musics, in Feasts And Feats: A Festschrift For Doreen G. Fernandez, edited by Jonathan Chua. Quezon City (Philippines): Ateneo de Manila, pp. 253-267 (2000).

Music and Constructions of Nationalism during the American Era (1898-1945): Filipino and American Initiatives. Manila: Government Press, pp. 80-90 (2000).

Filipino-American Youth, Performing Filipinicity. 1998 Smithsonian Folklife Festival. Washington DC: Smithsonian Institution, pp. 53-56 (1998).

Cultural Identity, Preservation, and Conservation in the Philippines: Research Encounters with Past Colonial and Present Cultural Policy. Lux Oriente: Begegnung der Kulturen in der Musikforschung. Kassel: Gustav Bosse, pp. 71-77 (1995).

More than Art: The Politics of Performance in International Cultural Exchange. Looking Out: Perspectives on Dance and Criticism in a Multicultural World, edited by David Gere. New York: Schirmer, pp. 23-39 (1995).

Pasyon: Lenten Observance of the Philippines as Southeast Asian Theater, in Essays on Southeast Asian Performing Arts: Local Manifestations and Cross-cultural Implications, edited by K. Foley. Occasional Papers Series No. 18, Center for Southeast Asian Studies Berkeley: University of California, pp. 5-22 (1992).