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Chapter 6 introduces the music and associated cultural activities from Southeast Asia, including Vietnam, Thailand, Laos, and Indonesia. Contrasting folk and classical styles are offered from Vietnam and Thailand, as well as a popular music style from the northeast region of Thailand. The examination of music from Indonesia includes two differing types of classical gamelan, from the islands of Java and Bali. The Explore More feature boxes focus on the story of the Ramayana, an epic originating in India that is significant throughout Southeast Asia as well.
Key Terms
- Bossed gong
- Ching
- Colotomic structure
- Dan co
- Dan kim
- Dan tranh
- Dan tyba
- Gamelan
- Gamelan gong kebyar
- Gong ageng
- Isan
- Kecak
- Khaen
- Khawng wong lek/Khawng wong yai
- Kohn
- Khru
- Khruang sai
- Lam klawn
- Lam sing
- Mahori
- Metallophone
- Phin
- Phleng luk thung
- Pi
- Piphat
- Ramayana
- Ranat ek
- Ranat thum
- Rebab
- Saw u
- Song lang
- Wai khru
- Bonang
- Mawlam
- Tai thu
Flashcards
Practice Quiz
Audio Examples
6.1
Vietnam: Upland bronze gong ensemble. Gong ensemble of the Jarai, Pleiku City, Pleiku province, recorded by Terry E. Miller and Phong Nguyen, from Vietnam: Mother Mountain and Father Sea, White Cliffs Media WCM 9991 (6 CDs and 47 pp. book), 2003. Used by permission.
6.2
Vietnam: Tai tu amateur chamber music. “Xuan tinh (Spring Love)”performed by Nam Vinh, dan kim, Sau Xiu, dan tranh, and Muoi Phu, dan co, recorded by Terry E. Miller and Phong Nguyen, from Vietnam: Mother Mountain and Father Sea, White Cliffs Media WCM 1991 (6 CDs and 47 pp. book), 2003. Used by permission.
6.3
Central Thailand: Classical piphat music. "Sathukan" and "Sathukan klawng" from Wai Khru/The Traditional Music of Siam, produced by The Committee of the College of Music Project, Mahidol University, Saliya, Thailand, 1994.
6.4
Northeast Thailand: Lam klawn repartee singing. “Lam thang san”(excerpts) sung by Saman Hongsa (male) and Ubon Hongsa (female),and accompanied by Thawi Sidamni, khaen, recorded by Terry E. Miller in Mahasarakham, Thailand, 1988.
6.5
Northeast Thailand: Phleng Luk thung popular song. "Sao Jan Kang Kop" sung by Phawnsak Sawng-saeng, from Sao Jan Kang Kop, JKC Marketing Co., Ltd, JKC-CD 157 (nd). Used by permission.
6.6
Indonesia: Javanese court gamelan. “Udan Mas” (“Golden Rain”), from the recording entitled Music of the Venerable Dark Cloud: The Javanese Gamelan Khjai Mendung, Institute of Ethnomusicology, UCLA, IER 7501, 1973. Used by permission.
6.7
Indonesia: Balinese gamelan gong kebyar. “Hudjan Mas,” recorded in south Bali by a gamelan gong kebjar ensemble, from the recording entitled Gamelan Music of Bali, Lyrichord CD 7179, n.d. Used by permission, Multicultural Media Inc.
Video Links
For more world music videos, visit the World Music YouTube Channel .
- Vietnam Gong Performance
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvhc6c1Bz9A
- Thai Classical Music
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bi5RyepygCo
- Gamelan – Bubaran Udan Mas
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=euVzWje5cUE
- Gamelan – Gong Kebyar
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=ldPMifPbngc
- Making Gamelan
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R5rmfevpUhw
- Javanese Court Dance: Serimpi
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HfrOSJRCsfM
- Ramayana Golden Deer
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zMdE3fbBp_0
Audio Book
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On Your Own Time
Links and further resources
- Audio:
- Ngyuen, Phong T. and Terry E. Miller. Music from the Lost Kingdom Vietnam: The Perfume River Traditional Ensemble
- http://lyrichord.com/musicfromthelostkingdomvietnam-theperfumerivertraditionalensemble.aspx
- http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/music-from-lost-kingdom-vietnam/id78666859
- Book:
- Reyes, Adelaida. Songs of the Caged, Songs of the Free: Music and the Vietnamese Refugee Experience. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1999.
- http://tupress.temple.edu/book/3518
- Popular Artists from Vietnam:
- My Tam
- Quang Dung
- Lam Truong
- Audio:
- Royal Court Music of Thailand (Smithsonian-Folkways)
- http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/royal-court-music-of-thailand/id83572118
- Audio:
- Silk, Spirits, and Songs: Music from North Thailand (Lyrichord)
- http://lyrichord.com/silkspiritsandsongmusicfromnorththailand.aspx
- http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/silk-spirits-song-music-from/id258470887
- Book:
- Shahriari, Andrew. Khon Muang Music and Dance Traditions of North Thailand. Bangkok: White Lotus Press, 2006.
- http://www.whitelotuspress.com/bookdetail.php?id=E22486
- Popular Artists from Thailand:
- Loso
- Tay Orathai
- Katreeya English
- Audio:
- Gamelan Music of Bali - Gamelan Angklung, and Gamelan Gong Kebjar
- http://lyrichord.com/gamelanmusicofbali-gamelanangklungandgamelangongkebjar.aspx
- http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/gamelan-music-of-bali/id49332149
- Audio:
- Java Court Gamelan (Nonesuch)
- http://www.nonesuch.com/albums/java-court-gamelan
- http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/java-court-gamelan/id128049636
- Book:
- Spiller, Henry. Gamelan Music of Indonesia. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO.
- https://www.routledge.com/Focus-Gamelan-Music-of-Indonesia/Spiller/p/book/9780415960687
- Book:
- Tenzer, Michael. Gamelan Gong Kebyar: The Art of Twentieth-Century Balinese Music. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000.
- https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/G/bo3630827.html
- Audio:
- Indonesian Popular Music: Kroncong, Dangdut, and Langgam Jawa
- http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/music-indonesia-vol-2-indonesian/id151045292
- Popular Artists from Indonesia:
- Rhoma Irama
- Dangdut
- Jeni Anjani