Playing with the Past: Chầu Văn meets Hip Hop
Chầu văn is a type of Vietnamese music that one can hear during spirit séances, when mediums contact spirits. The ethnomusicologist, Barley Norton, has written a wonderful book about this…
Viewing the Past: The Belle of Penang
As it became clear that the Chinese Communists would gain control of the mainland in 1949, many members of Shanghai’s film industry relocated to Hong Kong. Hong Kong already had…
Traveling Back in Time to Jam with Ros Sereysothea
As an historian, not only do I enjoy learning about the past, but I also have a strong desire to travel back in time to visit certain places at certain…
Sampling the Past: A Duy Khánh Remix
I have been learning a lot about making music in the digital age recently, and one aspect of making music today that I find fascinating is the fact that people…
Hồ Chí Minh, Truman and the “Lost Opportunity” (Part IV)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9y8LgOwBl8&feature=youtu.be
Hồ Chí Minh, Truman and the “Lost Opportunity” (Part III)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJLix2XSxN0&feature=youtu.be
Hồ Chí Minh, Truman and the “Lost Opportunity” (Part II)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VDG3El8MjI8
Hồ Chí Minh, Truman and the “Lost Opportunity” (Part I)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=476skwHLcnE&feature=youtu.be This video is the result of a month or so of a lot of work spent trying to learn how to use a DSLR camera, a Zoom h4n audio…
Circus Problems and the Colonizer-Colonized Convergence in Late Colonial Burma
I recently came across some images from the 1930s that were advertising “giraffe-necked women.” Apparently in the 1930s there were Padaung women from Burma who were put on display at…
Making Traditional Music Cool in Sarawak
Lamenting the loss of tradition is something that you hear all around the world, but there are some places that succeed in keeping the traditional world alive. The way they…
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