New Article on Sino-Burmese Music Making Cultural homogeneity, embodied empathy: incorporating musical pasts among Burmese Chinese peoples worldwide DOI: 10.1080/17411912.2016.1151811 Hsin-Chun Tasaw Lu This article delves into the dynamic interplay between musical memory, history making and body performance occurring in the movement of ‘pan-Sino-Burmese’ ethnicisation, which has taken place since the…
Re-Post: Burma’s Rappers Don’t Care Much About Politics | VICE
February 13, 2015
Burma’s Rappers Don’t Care Much About Politics | VICE | United States. Unlike their parents and grandparents before them, today’s Burmese rappers keep away from politics. “I’m a rapper,” says local musician J-Me. “Politics don’t matter to me.” Even after the country’s 2011 democratic reforms, the government is still…
Event: Musical Voices from Myanmar
September 10, 2014
Friday, October 3, 2014 – 7:30pm University of Washington | School of Music | Brechemin Auditorium UW Ethnomusicology presents Musical Voices from Myanmar, an evening of scholarship and performance focused on the music of Burma. Guests include lecturer Gavin Douglas, faculty member at the University of North Carolina-Greensboro; pianist Kit Young; and…
The “JAZZ BLISS” French Jazz & Myanma Hsaing Waing performance was held at the France Culture Centre (Institut Francais) in Yangon on November 14, 2013. Erik Truffaz Quartet from France and Hein Tint Hsaing Waing Ensemble of Myanmar tuned in harmony for over a hundred of music lovers.