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[[Category:Dictionary of Filipino Music Terms| | [[Category:Dictionary of Filipino Music Terms|Kagong]][[category:musical occasion|Kagong]] | ||
Latest revision as of 14:12, 11 August 2009
Word: kagong
Source of Term:Filipino Heritage vol. 7
Language:Tagalog
Category:Genre
Description: A curing ritual practiced in Abucay in Bataan. The kagong involves 12
- medikos, men and women between the ages of 45 to 60. The medikos begin the diagnosis by chanting
- together in low voices as they place on a plate their medals, stones and dried leaves of different
- sizes and shapes. Two men play the guitar and two or more play the banduria while the medikos dance
- and shout around the patient who has been made to sit in the middle of the circle.