TY - JOUR
T1 - Music and digital media across the lao diaspora
AU - Chapman, Adam
PY - 2004/8
Y1 - 2004/8
N2 - Since the late 1990s a transnational Lao music industry, driven by the explosion of digital media technologies, has emerged across the communities of the Lao diaspora. These migrant Lao communities, which are dispersed across, and within, the United States of America, Australia, France and Canada, are undergoing internal changes as their younger, bi-cultural, generations reach adulthood. Using Lao music and its associated technoculture as a focal point, this article explores some of the ways Lao identity is being reconfigured and reconstructed as young migrant Lao come to terms with their cross-cultural status.
AB - Since the late 1990s a transnational Lao music industry, driven by the explosion of digital media technologies, has emerged across the communities of the Lao diaspora. These migrant Lao communities, which are dispersed across, and within, the United States of America, Australia, France and Canada, are undergoing internal changes as their younger, bi-cultural, generations reach adulthood. Using Lao music and its associated technoculture as a focal point, this article explores some of the ways Lao identity is being reconfigured and reconstructed as young migrant Lao come to terms with their cross-cultural status.
KW - Diaspora
KW - Identity
KW - Laos
KW - Technoculture
KW - Transnationalism
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84995434006&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/1444221042000247670
DO - 10.1080/1444221042000247670
M3 - Article
SN - 1444-2213
VL - 5
SP - 129
EP - 144
JO - Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology
JF - Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology
IS - 2
ER -