Welcome to Streetprint Manila

Streetprint Manila is a research project that is part of a larger research endeavour called “Six Continents and Between”. Initiated by Prof. Gary Kelly of the University of Alberta, 6CAB seeks to investigate popular print culture across various geographical, sociocultural, and ethnolinguistic contexts. More specifically, it aims to look at reading patterns and preferences of the Filipino Everyman, or those whom we would largely consider members of the “masa” class.

What's Original about Pinoy Music?

He continues, “Over these past few years, as an artist and musician, what I think I’ve been ‘fighting’ for is to see a semblance of collective progress amongst the people who think they know music. What’s keeping this a great challenge is each and everyone’s readiness for the ever evolving perception of what music is. In example, for the ‘masa’ (masses), music-business seeks to only satisfy them at [the] level of what they think their level of their understanding of music is, i.e., novelty and pop.”