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- moro-moro, the earliest known form of organized theatre in the Philippines; it was created by Spanish priests. Other than epic recitations, whatever indigenous theatrical forms may have existed there before were obliterated by the Spanish to facilitate the spread of Christianity.
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Moro-moro, also called comedia, the earliest known form of organized theater in the Philippines; it was created by Spanish priests. It began with a 1637 play that dramatized the recent capture by a Christian Filipino army of an Islamic stronghold.
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Moro, any of several Muslim peoples of Mindanao, Palawan,...
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The Moro people or Bangsamoro people are the 13 Muslim-majority ethnolinguistic Austronesian groups of Mindanao, Sulu, and Palawan, native to the region known as the Bangsamoro (lit. Moro nation or Moro country). [6]
Jul 18, 2020 · A 19th century print depicting a scene from a “Moro-Moro,” an anti-Muslim play popular during the Spanish colonial period to mark Spanish victory over the Muslims in the Philippines and to assert the supremacy of Christianity over Islam.
Dec 14, 2009 · Moro-moro is a play that became popular in the Philippines during the Spanish colonial period where the Moros were portrayed as perpetual villains who always lost to Christians in the end.
Moro, any of several Muslim peoples of Mindanao, Palawan, the Sulu Archipelago, and other southern islands of the Philippines. Constituting about 5 percent of the Philippine population, they can be classified linguistically into 10 subgroups: the Maguindanao of North Cotabato, Sultan Kudarat, and.
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Feb 8, 2021 · “Moro,” which simply means “Moor,” derives from the term used by the Spanish during their colonial period in the Philippines, to describe Muslims of Arab descent—which was eventually adopted as a term to describe all Muslims. What has life been like for the Moro?
Dec 5, 2009 · I examine how the term “Moro,” which Spanish and American colonizers and Christian Filipinos used in a derogatory sense to refer to Philippine Muslims, was transformed and transcoded by the latter and now used in a positive way to refer to their identity.
