philippine studies Ateneo de Manila University • Loyola Heights, Quezon City • 1108 Philippines The Minoros of Emiliano Gabuya Lolita Rodriguez Lacuesta Philippine Studies vol. 36, no. 3 (1988) 300–329 Copyright © Ateneo de Manila University Philippine Studies is published by the Ateneo de Manila University. Contents may not be copied or sent via email or other means to multiple sites and posted to a listserv without the copyright holder’s written permission. Users may download and print articles for individual, noncom- mercial use only. However, unless prior permission has been obtained, you may not download an entire issue of a journal, or download multiple copies of articles. Please contact the publisher for any further use of this work at
[email protected]. http://www.philippinestudies.net Fri June 27 13:30:20 2008 Philippine Studies 36 (1988): 300-29 The Minoros of Emiliano Gabuya LOLITA RODRIGUEZ LACUESTA During a symposium on Sugbuanon literature at the University of the Philippines in 1978, Natalio Bacalso, speaking of Sugbuanon drama, touched on the moro-moro and its place in the history of Sugbuanon drama. He cited several writers of the moro-moro, among them, Emili- ano Gabuya. He said Gabuya gave "the moro-mom modem touches," and added that Gabuya's moro- mom, "has the trimmings of an opera" and that "many songs are strewn throughout. ."I But Emiliano Gabuya (1905-62) was not, strictly speaking, a moro- mom writer. Nor did he simply give the moro-moro modem touehes. He wrote a type of drama that was derivative of the moro-mom (christened linambay by the Cebuanos) but which differed radically from it.