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Fong Naam
By the mid-20th century Thai classical music was in a relatively stagnant state. The aggressively modernizing policies of Western-looking Thai politicians during the 1940s and '50s led to a widespread view of traditional Thai arts as being, at best, culturally static or, at worst, culturally backward. By the 1960s many of the traditional musicians patronized by the royal court in Bangkok held dogmatic, inflexible and zealous attitudes toward the maintenance of stylized traditions and imagined a rigid compartmentalization dividing genres.
In the effort to revitalize the classical arts and to introduce them to a new and younger Thai audience as well as to a foreign audience, master musician Buyong Ketkhong and his energetic American student, Bruce Gaston, founded the Fong Naam ensemble in 1983. The group is named for the first traditional piece it performed in public. The tune, an ancient melody once performed to accompany the offering of food to monks translates into English as either "bubble" or "sponge."
When I play this music at home in Thailand some of my neighbors say:
This is "Isaan-music", the music from the lower class society!
My answer: "But Isaan is the breadbasket and cultural source of Thailand. Without this peoples existence Thailand and the "high class society" cannot exist - think about this!"
By the mid-20th century Thai classical music was in a relatively stagnant state. The aggressively modernizing policies of Western-looking Thai politicians during the 1940s and '50s led to a widespread view of traditional Thai arts as being, at best, culturally static or, at worst, culturally backward. By the 1960s many of the traditional musicians patronized by the royal court in Bangkok held dogmatic, inflexible and zealous attitudes toward the maintenance of stylized traditions and imagined a rigid compartmentalization dividing genres.
In the effort to revitalize the classical arts and to introduce them to a new and younger Thai audience as well as to a foreign audience, master musician Buyong Ketkhong and his energetic American student, Bruce Gaston, founded the Fong Naam ensemble in 1983. The group is named for the first traditional piece it performed in public. The tune, an ancient melody once performed to accompany the offering of food to monks translates into English as either "bubble" or "sponge."
When I play this music at home in Thailand some of my neighbors say:
This is "Isaan-music", the music from the lower class society!
My answer: "But Isaan is the breadbasket and cultural source of Thailand. Without this peoples existence Thailand and the "high class society" cannot exist - think about this!"
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