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	Music of Laos - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Laos is dominated by the Lao, and includes minorities of Hmong, Mien, Kmhmu, among many others.
		Lao folk music, known as Lam, is extemporaneous singing accompanied by the khene.
		Music varies widely across Laos, with the lam saravane style being most popular, while the city of Luang Prabang is known for a slow form called khaplam wai.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Music_of_Laos (352 words)

	Lao music - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Sep Nyai is ceremonial and formal music and includes: two sets of gongs (kong vong), a xylophone (lanat), an oboe (pei or salai), two large kettle drums and two sets of cymbals (xing).
		Some ethnomusicologists believe that Laos is a country where the ancient art music of the Khmer people has been best preserved -- as well as diverse forms of folk music related to the oldest types of Indian music, music that has largely disappeared in India itself.
		They claim to find in Laos a scale which the ancient Hindus called the "celestial scale," the Gandhara grama, which is a tempered heptatonic scale, or a division of the octave into seven equal parts.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lao_music (695 words)

	NationMaster.com - Encyclopedia: Lao (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Laos is a landlocked country in Southeast Asia and the thickly forested landscape consists mostly of rugged mountains, the highest of which is Phou Bia at 2817 m, with some plains and plateaus.
		The Lao People's Democratic Republic is a landlocked country in southeast Asia, bordered by Myanmar (commonly known in the west as Burma) and China to the northwest, Vietnam to the east, Cambodia to the south, and Thailand to the west.
		Laos' early history was dominated by the wider Nan-chao kingdom, which was succeded in the 14th century by the local kingdom of Lan Xang that lasted until its decline in the 18th century, after which Thailand assumed control of the separate principalities that remained.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Lao (2259 words)

	NationMaster.com - Encyclopedia: Lao music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The Lao People's Democratic Republic is a landlocked country in Southeast Asia, bordered by Myanmar (commonly known in the West as Burma) and the People's Republic of China to the northwest, Vietnam to the east, Cambodia to the south, and Thailand to the west.
		The early history of Laos was dominated by the wider Nanzhao kingdom, which was succeeded in the 14th century by the local kingdom of Lan Xang that lasted until its decline in the 18th century, after which Thailand assumed control of the separate principalities that remained.
		Laos is dominated by the Lao, and includes minorities of Hmong and Mien, among others.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Lao-music (1434 words)

	Lao music: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The xylophone is a musical instrument in the percussion family which probably originated in indonesia (nettl 1956, p.98)....
		In music a heptatonic scale is a scale (music) with seven (hepta) degrees....
		In music, an octave (sometimes abbreviated 8ve or 8va) is the interval between one musical note and another with half or double the frequency....
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/l/la/lao_music.htm (1041 words)

	Lao music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The Nyai is ceremonial and formal music and two sets of gongs (kong vong) a xylophone (lanat) an oboe (pei or salai) two large kettle drums and two sets of cymbals (xing).
		Some ethnomusicologists believe that Laos is a country where the ancient music of the Khmers has been best preserved -- as as diverse forms of folk music related the oldest types of Indian music music has largely disappeared in India itself.
		Immediately after the deputy king's death in King Mongkut made known his fear that Lao culture would supplant Siamese genres and therefore Lao musical performances in a proclamation in he complained that "Both men and women play Lao khene (mo lam) throughout the khene is always played for the topknot ceremony and for ordinations.
	www.freeglossary.com /Lao_music (450 words)

	Roots Music from Laos
		Laos is credited with the invention of the khaen, a free-reed bamboo instrument used to accompany the singing style known as lam, also called khap in northern Laos.
		Luang Prabang, located in the far north of Laos, was the royal capital before 1975 and the center of classical music, dance and theatre.
		Of all lam lao styles, this one is closest to lam klawn of the Issan region of northeast Thailand.
	www.monsoon-country.org /Laos.html (582 words)

	Lao Cai - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Lao Cai
		It is situated at the junction of the Nam-thi and Song Huong rivers on the Chinese frontier, and is a market centre for timber from the surrounding mountains.
		The railway at Lao Cai, which runs from Hanoi to Yunnan province (China) was damaged during the French Indochina War (1946–54), and the frontier crossing was closed in 1979 during the war between China and Vietnam when the town was destroyed.
		Lao Cai was subsequently rebuilt and the railway reopened in 1993.
	encyclopedia.farlex.com /Lao%20Cai (161 words)

	International Conference on Lao Studies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		In terms of instrumental music, the music of the khaen is considered the “mother” of the Lao music.
		The last developmental stage of indigenous khaen music is considered to have occurred during the second and third quarters of the twentieth century.
		Lao people sing lam or khup-lam (vocal musics) and play the khaen in keeping with the roots of their musical heritage.
	www.seasite.niu.edu /lao/LaoStudies/pnano.htm (499 words)

	Lao ceramics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Lao ceramics were first uncovered in the Vientiane area in 1970 at a construction at kilometer 3 Thadeua Road.
		From the examples collected to date it be said that Lao ceramics used one of clay with 5% quartz added as a temper.
		I first heard this CD at my local music store; and was so mesmerized by the beauty of the performance; that I had to listen to the entire CD.
	www.freeglossary.com /Lao_Ceramics (871 words)

	Laos Culture
		The official language of Laos is Lao, as spoken and written in Vientiane.
		Lao is also spoken in north-east Thailand and north Cambodia, which was originally part of the kingdom of Lan Xang.
		Classical Lao theatre and dance have Indian origins and were probably imported from the Cambodian royal courts in the 14th century.
	www.traveldocs.com /la/culture.htm (322 words)

	www.lao.ch---Lao travel info & galleries
		Laos has their own traditional music, including Lam Vong (circles dancing)which is very famous Lao folk dance where men and women dance in circles.
		Lam is a folk music of the Lao, in Laos and North Thailand.
		The invention of the khaen is attributed to the Lao, but it was after having studied a Chinese Sheng, carried to St. Petersburg in the 18th century, that a technician devised the free-reed Western instruments from which the harmonium, Concertina, acordina were developed.
	www.lao.ch /lao-ch/english/about-laos/music.htm (332 words)

	Lao Classical Music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Lao and Thai classical music are extremely similar, sharing both instrumentation and repertoire to a large degree.
		Sugree Charoensook, Director of the College of Music at Mahidol University.
		The first two are Lao melodies, and the next two are among the most popular in Thai suites.
	www.asianclassicalmp3.org /laos.htm (427 words)

	Lao Culture, Art & Music - Lao Heritage Foundation
		The Lao Heritage Foundation (LHF) was established in 2004 with the mission to preserve and promote Lao culture.
		As a first step to preserving this art, LHF is documenting music for the Lao violin ('saw') in the form of tablature; this will not only help to preserve the music, as but also to facilitate the teaching of it.
		Such organizations are the Lao American Women Association (LAWA) of Washington D.C., the Laotian Community Center (LCC) of Rhode Island, and the United Lao Community Development (ULCD) of the San Francisco Bay area.
	www.laoheritagefoundation.org (533 words)

	Laos Hotels Travel Guide — Events & Festivals, Holiday in Laos
		The Buddhist Era calendar usually figures year one as 543 BC, which means that you must subtract 543 from the Lao calendar year to arrive at the Christian calendar familiar in the West (e.g., 1997 AD is 2540 BE according to the Lao Buddhist calendar).
		This can be one of the wildest festivals in the country (other than the New Year festivities), with plenty of music and dance, processions and general merrymaking, culminating in the firing of bamboo rockets into the sky.
		Lao national and communist hammer-and-sickle flags are flown all over the country.
	www.hoteltravel.com /laos/guides/festivals.htm (1678 words)

	Preservation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		One project involves documenting, recording and preserving Lao traditional music so as to develop at the National Library of Laos an archive of Lao music.
		Although these are both very worthwhile projects, the long term survival of the materials now being created - on microfilm and sound tape - will not be good unless future support and continuing resources are made available to ensure their survival, and their migration to other technologies as the need arises.
		Like many similar films, however, it is of dubious use for long term archival use, and it is starting to peel off the books in the main reading room that have been treated with it in the past.
	www.alia.org.au /%7Ewsmith/preservation.htm (662 words)

	Hip-hop has the fame, tradition has the market - Asia Finest Discussion Forum
		Lao hip-hop music has also hit audiences in northeast Thailand, where Overdance, Alexandra and others from the same studio performed, making big headlines in the Thai media and being interviewed on Thai TV, a rare opportunity to see Lao artists on another channel than their own.
		Most music houses specialise in teenage music, looking to take a larger share of the Lao music market of around 6 million people, more than half of whom are under the age of 20.
		Some fear that the gentleness of Lao music for the Lamvong dance might result in its submergence because of a more modern impatience and desire for the new, with fewer people wanting to hear the same songs repeated.
	www.asiafinest.com /forum/index.php?showtopic=26947 (1225 words)

	Laoplanet.net - Web Links (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		We are a biggest Music Industries and also we are biggest all lao music marketing for all Laotian singer.
		Lao Art Media is a well known Lao Music producer.
		We are Wholesale Lao Music product to Retail store only and also we are one of Company make movie Karaoke and Setup Lao Concert from around the world.
	laoplanet.net /component/option,com_weblinks/catid,85/Itemid,4 (313 words)

	Lao Entertainment, Music, CD, Artists,
		Lao Heavy was their album which set the benchmark for Lao heavy metal on which every act was measured.
		Music is distributed by Sony Music Entertainment and produced by EMC record.
		It is music that the band finds most of its enjoyment, where each member bring their own ideas and perspective to create something unique and exciting.
	www.laopress.com /music/news (4255 words)

	instrument lao music
		A background music is the sound of Khene blending in with others Lao music instruments.
		Khene is part of Lao society; it represents its musical, artistic and spiritual attractions.
		Lao culture is its folk music, which is extremely popular with the people throughout the whole country.
	www.musicdownload-free.com /87/instrument-lao-music.html (513 words)

	Lao Music-moonlite.bizhosting.com
		Moonlite Entertainment is the source of home entertainment products for Lao and Thai speaking communities in the Seattle area and beyond.......
		This event is aimed to have Lao musicians (recording artists and local bands are welcome) from across the country to come meet each other and have a good fun time, while meeting some new musicians and recording artists.
		They are going to be quite a treat to Lao community across the glob.
	moonlite.bizhosting.com /news_page.html (552 words)

	Discount rate at Villa Santi Hotel - Luang Prabang - Laos
		The room is set with authentic Lao rose wood furnishings and silk textiles, using only genuine local natural products appropriate to the theme and comfort.
		Traditional Lao music performance by “Khim” can be heard in the evening in the middle of candlelights and charming lanterns, offering the most romantic drinking atmosphere.
		Laos loves to remain within an exquisite isolated world and wait for its turn to attain development at its own ease.
	www.sino.net /discount-hotels-laos/Villa-Santi-Hotel740.html (547 words)

	~ laoconnection.com - Advice Column
		We encourage people to buy Lao products in general and help support an industry for Lao products however this one area is where I encourage people to really research and think twice first.
		Music, like art, is enjoyable and beautiful to the eye (or ear) of the beholder.
		If you want to listen to traditional music it is available at Asian music stores usually located in Chinatowns across the world or you can visit other websites to hear and even download Lao MP3 music files on the net (refer to our links page).
	www.laoconnection.com /advice_010608.htm (933 words)

	VOA News - Lao Service - Music
		Lao pop star Alexandra Bounxouei returns to serenade our audience with a remix of her late grandfather's classic "Pakse Rose," as requested by a listener in France.
		Laos veteran star, Daraphet, returns per audience requests with "Fun Night," a cut from her newly released album, "the New Path," produced and recorded in Belgium by Phonepradith Phommaphavanh.
		Laos' famous artist, Daraphet Khounsathone, started our program last weekend with "The Value of Love," a cut from her latest album "The New Path," which was produced in Belgium by Phonepradith Phommaphavanh.
	www.voanews.com /lao/music.cfm (1206 words)

	Lao Music Paradise (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		san was dominated by the Lao Lan Xang kingdom in the 13th thru 17th century.
		Today, there are 22 million Lao Isan people in Thailand and most of the population is of Lao origin.
		The main spoken language of the region is Lao Isan language which is similar to Lao.
	www.savannanet.com /laomusic/laomusic.htm (370 words)

	Laoplanet.net - Home
		We are going to give your music and entertainment life a serious boost this summer.
		Lay is a Lao rapper who was born in Vientiane, Laos.
		The Mekong River is known as "the Sea of Laos." More than 1,000 indigenous species of fish live in the Mekong and its tributaries.
	www.laoplanet.net (1165 words)

	Rising Star Aluna Thavonsouk, a New Singing Sensation from Laos
		Before her return to Laos after a two-month tour on the U.S. West Coast, Aluna talked to VOA about her love of music…”I was very fortunate to have been born to a family that loves music.
		That trip helped clarify her thoughts and reconnected her soul, her love for music once a gain, and led to her debut album in 2004, "Aluna." She wrote the lyrics and rhythms for all the ten songs on the album herself.
		On Laos’ entertainment industry, Aluna thinks “the Lao government has opened up and given the younger generation a chance to bring out their talents.
	www.voanews.com /lao/2005-09-29-voa1.cfm (532 words)

	Laomedia.net - Home (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		When Mike Rasavanh, his parents, three sisters and three brothers left communist Laos in 1975, they didn?t care where they went as long as they found...When Mike Rasavanh, his parents, three sisters and three brothers left communist Laos in 1975, they didn?t care where they went as long as they found...
		Laos' economy has grown more than 7 percent in the first half of fiscal 2006, state media reported, fueled by the exports and foreign investment to the impoverished Southeast Asian country.
		Laos has presented a number of Vietnamese diplomatic organisations and individuals with orders and medals for their contributions to strengthening the special friendship between the two countries.Laos has presented a number of Vietnamese diplomatic organisations and individuals with orders and medals for their contributions to strengthening the special friendship between the two countries.
	laomedia.net (1421 words)

	ANU - Centre for Cross-Cultural Research - CCR
		His thesis “Regional Traditions of Lao Vocal Music” is the first English language account of the Lao vocal music known as khap-lam in almost twenty-five years.
		The thesis was primarily an ethnographic study of the singers in two regional traditions, khap ngeum and lam siphandon, performed in the provinces of Vientiane and Champassak.
		Adam’s current research project extends his interest in Lao music to the transnational production and consumption of music across the Lao diaspora.
	www.anu.edu.au /culture/staff/chapman_a.php?p=1 (538 words)

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