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- (6) Going Beyond
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(6) Going Beyond To Infinity and Beyond Sanghun Lee, ASEAN-Korea Centre So far, we have seen various aspects of the music of Southeast Asia. We have listened to traditional music, seen traditional instruments, and enjoyed the latest pop of many countries of Southeast Asia. Nonetheless, music, similar to a tree, continues to branch out and grow. Likewise, music of Southeast Asia continues to con...
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- Music of ASEAN: (5) Pop of Southeast Asia
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(5) Pop of Southeast Asia Music of the People, by the People, for the People Sanghun Lee, ASEAN-Korea Blog Reporter Some kind of music, you have to be a tourist to encounter. But some, you just have to step outside the door to meet. Endless and ceaseless opportunity of music — that is what is so dinstinctive about pop music. But, as we now know, in one part of the world dwells music that ...
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- Around the world with music
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Around the World with Music - Instruments of Asia and the World - The ASEAN-Korea Centre Blog Reporter, Sanghun Lee Today, musical instruments of Europe are so predominant throughout the world that it is difficult to imagine how our ancestors only listened to folk music from our country and with instruments that are now coughing in dust behind museum glasses. You see people play the guitar on e...
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- Music of Vietnam: What the Voice of the People Sings to the World
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Music of Vietnam: What the Voice of the People Sings to the World ASEAN-Korea Centre Reporter, Sanghun Lee In the previous two articles, we saw the representative music of Southeast Asia, including the gong chime orchestra. Some of you may be wondering, why so little about the music of Vietnam, though? True, in the last two articles, Vietnamese music was hardly mentioned. This is because Vietna...
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- (2) Gong chime orchestra
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(2) Gong chime orchestra ASEAN-Korea Centre Reporter, Sanghun Lee Last time, we had a taste of the various styles in the music of Southeast Asia. In this article, we will get to know about one important style that is prevalent in the region throughout. What grabbed the minds of the southeastern people were gongs. The gong is an original Southeast Asian instrument that looks like a flat metal bo...
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- (1) Music of Southeast Asia
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(1) Music of Southeast Asia ASEAN-Korea Centre Reporter, Sanghun Lee We have all been tourists, in some way or another, in some part of our lives. Tourists devour strange cultures, traveling from Paris to Cairo, walking from ancient tombs to city parks. But one important food that molds everything into one dish is hard to catch at first sight. Or rather, first hearing. That food is music. And, ...
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