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mor lam laos music
Thursday, December 29th, 2011
mor lam laos music
First and foremost, for a great overview of the music, refer to Wikipedia‘s entry on Mor lam. You will find it much copied by other websites — it is even on a page of the excellent review site Morlam Luktung. It mightn’t hurt to flesh out that Wikipedia education by also referring to their article on Music of Laos.
Know Phuket included this style of music in their good overview Thailand’s music when they published a piece titled Thai Music – Mor Lam back in July 8, 2009. It was a very superficial article, but it did have some useful links.
Also have a look at WoWasis TravelBlog‘s Morlam music: an Isaan pastiche of city and country.
A deeper article on Morlam Music is that of AFA (Academic Film Archive).
The Teak Door forum posted a page on Lao Music where they embedded some choice videos.
There are some websites that focus on the music of that region of Southeast Asia which you might profit from taking a look at — for example, Mekong Music. It is quite an easy matter to become so engrossed in sites such as these that one spends far more time with the visit than may have been initially budgeted, so be warned. If this tends to be a problem for you, then avoid Lao Music Paradise — the videos and audio links will surely seize you with a firm hold.
An instructive look at the cultural resurgence taking place today in Thailand is Harvard Asia Pacific Review‘s Multiculturism in Thailand? Cultural and Regional Resurgence in a Diverse Kingdom:
…Cultural resurgence among Thailand’s ethnic minorities is most visible in the area of popular culture. The ethnic Lao culture of the northeast has witnessed a revival in the form of commercialized popular music. Widely heard on Thailand’s radio stations today, Mor Lam is a traditional music style rooted in Lao musical traditions and sung in Lao. Mor Lam has undergone a transformation from its folk music origins into a commercialized folk-rock genre Mor Lam stars appear on music shows broadcast on national television, and Mor Lam cassette tapes are sold all over the country….
Lao Morlam music received some attention in a book titled World Music: Latin and North America, Caribbean, India, Asia and Pacific, Volume 2. You can see an excerpt here: World Music. I understand that this tome was published in the year 2000, and must be quite something. I don’t know about a hard copy, but Amazon sells it as a paperback and also an audio CD:
New versions are not inexpensive, but used ones certainly appear to be.
As an April 19, 2012, edit to this post, here are a few further references you may or may not care to visit:
Mor Lam’s roots are older and originate in the northeast Thailand region known as Isaan, which has close ties to Laos. The music derives from a tradition of singers relating a tale of woe over a melody provided by the khene, …
Publish Date: 01/05/2012 13:55
http://www.cnngo.com/bangkok/drink/mor-lam-and-luk-thung-guide-bangkoks-thai-folk-music-scene-953038
Luk thung’s cousin is the music called mor lam whose roots floated from Laos into the northern Thai region of Isan. The central instrument identified with mor lam is the khene, a mouth organ that looks like two long pan pipes …
Publish Date: 04/28/2011 14:06
http://dublab.com/frosty%E2%80%99s-%E2%80%9Cfly-thai-high%E2%80%9D-mix-%E2%80%93-dublab-%E2%80%9Cfield-reports%E2%80%9D-thailand/
One of the aspects of Thai culture that I’m hoping to learn more about while I’m in Thailand is mor lam. mor lam is a style of music that often gets described as “Thai country music”, but that’s a really, really bad descriptor, as it brings up ideas of American country music and mor lam is certainly its own thing. It’s associated with the Isan region of Thailand and Laos and comes in two major flavours, mor lam and mor lam sing. I first heard mor lam at a Red Cross Festival in Kalasin, back in …
Publish Date: 06/19/2011 23:11
http://www.thailand.marshallastor.com/?p=26
I thoroughly enjoy almost every kind of Thai music, from the Mor Lam of Issan, to the pop music of Bangkok. My only exceptions would be the rap and head-banger varieties, and I hate those in English as well. There is something about the …
Publish Date: 10/08/2011 7:26
http://www.thailandstories.com/article/non-fiction/i-ve-got-a-little-list-part-4.html
Lukthung & Morlam – Thai country music … For a change some Lao lukthung/morlam and this artist, Mekkara Sabaphone, from Lao Art Media. Lets start with “pid huk pid … So overall then a good morlam album. Rating : 8/10 …
Publish Date: 05/18/2008 18:01
http://loogthung.blogspot.com/2008/05/cd-mekkara-sabaphone-bor-son-khon-mee.html
Lao folk music, known as lam (khap in the north), a unique call-and-response singing style which derives its melodies from word tones, is believed to be a direct legacy of the pre-Buddhist era of spirit communication and epic recitation. … Glawn or gaun (Thai กลอน) is a verse form commonly used in traditional mor lam, made up of four-line stanzas, each with seven basic syllables (although sung glawn often includes extra, unstressed syllables).
Publish Date: 11/17/2008 15:28
http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Laotian_art
หมอลำ or “MOLAM” music is coming from Laos and “ISAN” area (อีสาน – northeastern part of Thailand). Molam music lyrics tell the singers’ own stories, the village life, tragic love stories and labor exploitation. “MOLAM” is rhythmically powerful, …
Publish Date: 11/22/2006 19:13
http://www.thaiworldview.com/music/molam.htm
That was my start in music. He opened my ears to all kinds of folk music. When I was bit older I heard the Lao folk style mor lam. I went to all night mor lam parties. I used to look around me and see only old people, my father, my uncle. I was the …
Publish Date: 07/10/2003 1:32
http://www.tomvater.com/thailand/real-rebel-music/
And much of it has been forgotten. Laos shares much of its musical heritage with Thailand. Molam (or Mor lam), Lam luang and Lam ploen – which was influenced by Luk thung – can be found in both countries, especially the …
Publish Date: 07/11/2009 20:56
http://radiodiffusion.wordpress.com/2009/07/11/k-viseth/
Peter goes into detail on the source of Thai country music, which has its roots in Laos, which is famous for mor lam music, a similar country music. He goes through some of the older stars and their musical styles. He appears …
Publish Date: 03/23/2010 0:00
http://ricks-eastasiablog.typepad.com/ricks_east_asia_blog/2010/03/happy-30th-birthday-tai-orathai.html
mor lam laos music
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