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Music of Southeast Asia: The Struggle Between Then And Now

Liz and Kyle

5.14.08

McGuire A3

Old Vs. New: The Music of Southeastern Asia

In the modern-say countries of Southeast Asia, there has always been music. Music is found in the roots of all nations, and music has always changed throughout the years. This is only natural of all aspects of life, and learn to live with these developments and accept them as natural. Sometimes there is resistance at first by certain generations, but these subside eventually and the changes become the new. This is perhaps also true for the music of Southeastern Asia, including India, where music has remained close to its roots for many upon many years, and has only recently been exposed to the modern music of the West.

Southeast Asia has many styles of music, as well as instruments that create some of the most captivating sounds on earth. Many of the instruments are string instruments and can be made at home, such as the ektara and the tumbi. Others have gained their fame because they are mastered by people and so become famous, such as the sitar, of which one of the most famous sitar players is Ravi Shankar. Also, there is the Tar Shehnai, which is a little bit like a sitar only played with a bow instead of plucked. And these are just Indian instruments. In Indonesia, there is the kempung, which is pretty much a series of gongs hanging on two racks which are played with the most amazing sound ever. In the country of Myanmar, there is the Mi Gaung which is a three stringed instrument shaped like a crocodile. These instruments are still played today and influence their countries in ways that the US has not yet been exposed to.

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This here is a djembe, a traditional Indian drum which is used still today. It makes a low, hollow sound, and can actually make different notes depending on where it is struck.

This here is the aforementioned ektara. It's single string makes it an interesting and complicated instrument to play.

Here you can see a sitar, another traditional instrument of India. It was perhaps best introduced to the US by the stunning and spectacular Sitarist, Ravi Shakar.

And here we have modern music, which uses many, if not all of the above instruments, and puts them into a modern-day context and melange of sound and music.

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