Maria Christine Muyco and Panay Bukidnon represented by Lucia Caballero. Sibod: Ideology and Expressivity in Binanog Dance, Music, and Folkways of the Panay Bukidnon. Quezon City: Ateneo de Manila University Press. 2016. 243 pages.

• Main Author: Asenjo, Genevieve L.
• Format: text
• Published: Archīum Ateneo 2016
• Online Access: https://archium.ateneo.edu/paha/vol6/iss2/4; https://archium.ateneo.edu/context/paha/article/1196/viewcontent/PAHA_206.2_204_20Book_20reviews_20__20Asenjo.pdf
• Institution: Ateneo De Manila University

Excerpt: Among the Panay Bukidnon, the word sibod means “an experience of flow, . . . a state of having achieved mastery in different levels of structural and creative interplay” (xii). It is simultaneously noun, adjective, and most especially verb. In Sibod: Ideology and Expressivity in Binanog Dance, Music, and Folkways of the Panay Bukidnon, Maria Christine Muyco, an Ilonggo music composer and ethnomusicologist at the University of the Philippines (UP) Diliman, offers us a framework for understanding the performing arts of a community of epic chanters and storytellers, musicians and dancers of binanog (hawk-eagle dance), embroiderers, and farmers living in the highlands of Panay in the Western Visayas region of the country. In a blurb, Elena Rivera Mirano states that this book “provides us with a magic key to enter a remarkable world where music, dance, and gesture are woven together to create a fabric of human meaning.”