The Cambodian music comes from a mesh of cultural traditions dating back to the ancient Khmer Empire, Indians, Chinese and indigenous tribes who lived in the area before the arrival of Indian and Chinese tourists. With the rapid westernization of popular music, Cambodian music has incorporated elements from music around the world through globalization.
Video Music of Cambodia
Classic and folk music
The art of Cambodian music is heavily influenced by ancient forms and Hindu forms. Religious dances, many of which depict ancient stories and myths, which are common in Cambodian culture. Some dances are accompanied by a pinpeat orchestra, which includes ching (cymbal), roneat (bamboo gambang), pai au (flute), sralai (oboe), chapey (baso baso), gong (bronze gong), tro (fiddle) kind of drum. Every movement the dancers make refers to specific ideas, including abstract concepts like today (pointing up). The 1950s saw a revival in classical dance, led by Queen Sisowath Kossamak Nearyrath.
Maps Music of Cambodia
mid-twentieth century
Beginning in the late 1950s, Head of State Norodom Sihanouk, a musician himself, encouraged the development of popular music in Cambodia. Initially, pop recordings from France and Latin America were imported into the country and became popular, inspiring the growing music world based in Phnom Penh and led by singers like Sinn Sisamouth, Ros Serey Sothea, and Pen Ran. In the late 1960s and early 1970s, the scene was increasingly influenced by Western rock and roll and soul music through US armed radio radios broadcast to nearby South Vietnam. This results in a unique sound in which Western pop and rock are combined with Khmer vocal techniques.
Many of the most important singers of this era were killed during the Khmer Rouge genocide. Western interests in Cambodia's popular music of the 1960s 70s were triggered by the 1996 Cambodian Rocks album, which in turn inspired the 2015 documentary Do not Think I Forgot. "
Modern music
Cambodian pop music, or modern music, including the kind of slow music, as exemplified by songs like Sisamouth's Sinn ????????????? ( Ae Na Tiw Than Suor? ), as well as dance music. Dance music is classified according to the type of dance marked by the rhythm. The two most common types of Cambodian dance music are ramvong and ramkbach. Ramvong is a slow dance music, while ramkbach is closely related to Thai folk music. Recently, a form of music called kantrum has become popular. Hailing among the Khmer Surin in Thailand, kantrum is performed by both Thai and Cambodian stars including Darkie and Chalermpol Malakham.
Modern Cambodian music is usually presented in Cambodian karaoke VCDs, which usually feature actors and actresses mimicking song lyrics. Noy Vanneth and Lour Sarith are two examples of modern singers singing songs on VCD karaoke, and VCDs feature songs composed by other musicians, in addition to songs sung and composed by renowned musician Sinn Sisamouth.
Famous singers in Cambodia include Sisamouth; Sisamouth's main singing partners, Ros Serey Sothea and Pan Ron; Noy Vanneth; Meng Keo Pichenda; Lour Sarith; So Savoeun; Chhet Sovan Panha; and Preap Sovath.
Khmer Alternative Music
In recent years there has been a revival of creativity in the form of contemporary art and music of the Khmer is no exception. Cambodia's first alternative music label Yab Moung Records was founded in 2012 and has since recorded and released the first Khmer Hardcore and Death Metal songs and produced a variety of alternative artists that created unique Khmer blues, rock, hip hop and alternative music.
Yab Moung Records provides an ongoing platform for Khmer alternative music and art and actively encourages creative expression in a unique context in Cambodia. Yab Moung Records Official website
Mekong Delta Sunrise
A media report in June 2013 revealed that the Astronomy Class was recorded with Cambodian singer Kak Channthy. Astronomy Class Album Mekong Delta Sunrise was released in late April 2014 and Kennedy completed an interview with Phnom Penh Post in early May. Kennedy revealed that the initial inspiration for recording took place during a six hour taxi journey in Cambodia in 2012, when old cassettes played music from Cambodian 1960s and 1970s music stereos on car stereos. The journalist described Mekong Delta Sunrise as an album that combines an Australian-accented rapture with "golden age" rock 'n' roll pieces in Cambodia. " When asked what the group wanted to accomplish with the album, Kennedy replied:
What we want to discuss is our experience of modern Cambodia and the history of music we refer. We want to try and tell some stories about Cambodia in the 60s and 70s. We are very happy with the songs we hear and it's not right to snatch anything on it. We want new listeners to understand something about Cambodia and music.
Kennedy further explained that the samples that appeared on the album were taken from various sources, such as the internet, and that a percentage of the album's sales would be given to the families of the musicians whose compositions were sampled, an intention. that existed since the beginning of album creation. Kennedy said that the band will return to Cambodia by 2015 and the Astronomy Class "will do everything possible to give back to the families of those we have tested".
See also
- Traditional Cambodian music
- Chrieng Brunh
References
- Clewley, John. "Heavenly Dancers". 2000. In Broughton, Simon and Ellingham, Mark with McConnachie, James and Duane, Orla (Ed.), World Music, Vol. 2: Latin & amp; North America, Caribbean, India, Asia and the Pacific , pp 20-23. Rough Guides Ltd, Penguin Books. ISBNÃ, 1-85828-636-0
External links
- Angkorian & amp; traditional instruments (by Patrick KersalÃÆ'Â ©)
- (in French) Audio clip: Traditional music of Cambodia. MusÃÆ' Â © e d'ethnographie de GenÃÆ'¨ve. Retrieved on November 25, 2010.
- Cambodian court music & amp; dance palace (Sam-Ang Sam)
- Traditional music and instruments of Cambodia
- Cambodian Culture Profile (Department of Culture and Art/Visiting Art)
- Perform Cambodian Ensemble
- Traditional Khmer Music
- Khmer Music and Biography
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