Missing You (Karen – harp) Before Harvesting (Karen – hom) Big Feast (Hmong – big gourd-pipe) Courting (Hmong – jew’s harp) Good Bye (Hmong – girl singer) Nice To Meet You (Lahu – gourds-pipe) Courting (Lahu – jew’s harp) Courting (Lahu – pipe) Respect To Elder (Mien – oboe & cymbal) Marriage (Mien – oboe) [...]
Categories: Burma,Lao People's Democratic Republic (Laos),Myanmar,Thailand,Xishuangbanna,Yunnan
Tagged: Akha, CD, ethnic, festival, field recording, Hmong, Karen, Lahu, Lisu, Mien, traditional
- Published:
- August 30, 2012 –
- Author:
- By Aseam
Guangyin-axinshang (Dong) Selection from liner notes: Over half of China’s fifty-five national minorities are concentrated in the southwest, Most share some cultural features with the ethnic minorities in northern mainland Southeast Asia. One such group is the Dongs who live in the mountainous border of southeastern Hunan and western Quizhou Provinces and northern Guangxi Zhuang [...]
Categories: China,Xishuangbanna,Yunnan
Tagged: Chinese, Dong, ethnic, field recording, folkways, LP, traditional, vinyl
- Published:
- July 31, 2012 –
- Author:
- By Aseam
Excerpt from Folk Tales and Legends of the Dai People Edited by John Hoskin and Geoffrey Walton Translated from Chinese text by Ying Yi
Categories: Xishuangbanna,Yunnan
Tagged: book, Dai, story
- Published:
- August 30, 2011 –
- Author:
- By Aseam