Notes on Surigao Culture and Personalities by Eulogio V. Eleazar ARTS - Music & Dance

Notes on Surigao Culture and Personalities by Eulogio V. Eleazar ARTS - Music & DanceExcerpt from the Preface: This volume came out for manifold reasons. Primarily, I want to protect my lifetime interest from harm. Some of my works have fallen into the wrong hands. For examples: "The Monkey Dance of Surigao," which first appeared in the Weekly Graphic, January 23, 1963, was republished under another person's name in a July issue of Focus Magazine in 1977 Another good reason for the creation of this humble collection is the desire to

Originally the author wrote this book for a local magazine and the essays are easy to read and contrastive of the formal historiographic style that characterizes many historical accounts

and the jubilance of letting it go

-- Yong Soon Min

- Francisco C

and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area

Comte de la Perouse

organized in February 1941

Austin Craig

Their protagonist

The author takes the readers on a sentimental journey along the streets of Manila

offbeat characters and keen observations dished up by a wide-eyed foreigner living in a city exploding with life

They seem unbowed by the humiliations they had suffered in America