The IEDP Documentation Team, who administers this blog, has initiated a vote to determine a popular song that will serve as a rallying point for the IEDP class in its study of economic development in the Philippines. An anthem if you will.
The mechanism for determining this song is an internal online survey, which students may use to nominate a song for the course. However, this blog post is intended to encourage readers to submit their own nominations for a piece of music that will motivate and inspire the most profound and incisive analysis and advocacy by our cohort.
Please use the "Comments" section here to submit nominees.
My initial response (and my nomination in the survey) is a song called Filipino Box Spring Hog, from Tom Waits' evocative and deeply felt album "Mule Variations". The song is a desperate and lowdown paean to greasy food and stinky booze, and it has nothing to do whatsoever with the Philippines.
However, after more careful consideration, another song reveals itself to be the only rational choice. This choice is inspired by Thursday's (which it turns out is not actually the future) reported 6.1-magnitude earthquake 141 km east-southest of Pandan. (No damage has been reported, and no tsunami warnings have been issued.)
That song is - quite obviously - Ring of Fire, by Johnny Cash.
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