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Federico Caballero, Filipino Epic chanter and educator
Epic chanter Federico Caballero of Calinog, Iloilo is best known for his expertise in the Sugidanon, a Central Panay epic traditionally chanted while lying on a hammock, and his work in the preservation of oral literature, documenting 10 Panay-Bukidnon epics in an extinct language with close ties to Kinaray-a.
The National Commission for Culture and the Arts (NCCA) recognized him as a National Living Treasure in the year 2000 for "weaving the fabric of oral tradition".
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After twenty-five years of hard work, the ten epics of Panay have finally been documented by the University of the Philippines Press and Flipside Publishing. The books are available at the University of the Philippines Press in UP Diliman and at the UPper Shelf at the UP Town Center in Katipunan Avenue in Quezon City. They can also be purchased at UP Press Online Store and Lazada. Purchase Panay's oral epics to help preserve it.
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