By The decade of the 1970s was lived under the shadow of martial law. Some artists and writers went underground, and the crony press materialized in the form of the Daily Express, Bulletin Today, and Times Journal.
Pinoy folk and Pinoy rock came of age at this time, with the protest song “Bayan Ko” sung during Masses and in folkhouses, along with Simon and Garfunkel’s “The Boxer” and the nationalistic songs of the bands Asin and Heber Bartolome’s Banyuhay.
