Philippine Modernities Music, Performing Arts, and Language, 1880 to 1941Philippine Modernities: Music, Performing Arts, and Language, 1880 to 1941, edited by Jos S. Buenconsejo, is a scholarly collection from the University of the Philippines Press examining cultural production during the late Spanish colonial period through the American colonial era. It traces how Filipino artists, performers, and intellectuals negotiated identity and modernity across music, theater, and language in the decades before World War II.