Music and digital media across the lao diaspora

Adam Chapman*

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    Abstract

    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.

    Original languageEnglish
    Pages (from-to)129-144
    Number of pages16
    JournalAsia Pacific Journal of Anthropology
    Volume5
    Issue number2
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - Aug 2004

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