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Two renowned Filipino professors have decided to launch
their books in Roxas City.
It brings pride and honor to the Province of Capiz that Dr.
Alicia Magos of the University of the Philippines Visayas (UPV) and Dr. Maria
Christine Muyco of the University of the Philippines Diliman (UPD) will be launching
their books at Ang Panublion Museum in Roxas City this June 27.
The event, known as “Epics, Music and
Bird Dance,” will feature Dr. Magos' Amburukay (UP Press), the new
volume in the Panay Bukidnon epic series, and Dr. Muyco’s Sibud and Mumunting Tinig (Ateneo
de Manila Press), which are about Panay
Bukidnon’s Binanog Music and Dance.
Dr. Alicia P. Magos is an anthropologist
and professor emerita at U.P. Visayas who did extensive study and published
works on the Panay Bukidnon culture of Western Visayas. She embarked on her
work about the Sugidanon in 1992 through a grant from the French government,
discovering 10 epics: Tikun Kadlom, Amburukay, Derikaryong Pada, Balanakon,
Kalampay, Pahagunong, Sinagnayan, Humadapnon sa Tarangban, Nagburuhisan, and Alayaw.
Dr. Maria Christine Muyco, meanwhile, is an assistant professor at the Composition and Theory Department of the College of Music of the University of the Philippines, Diliman, where she teaches music composition, musicology, performance studies, and ethnomusicological methodology. A renowned mid-career composer in the Philippines, she was tapped by Cultural Center of the Philippines to represent the country in the Korea-ASEAN exchange program. Dr. Muyco wrote a piece for an orchestra of traditional Asian instruments.
