Reporting from Yangon, Myanmar — U Tin cut his teeth as a musician playing Burmese folk songs for silent movies, which in this time warp of a country remained popular well into the 1950s. The ...
Myanmar is known for political oppression and poverty under the rule of the world's longest-lasting military dictatorship. But a University of Dayton music professor reveals a different side of the ...
American musicians have it tough, but try making it work in Myanmar. To be an artist in the isolated Southeast Asian country is to face nearly impossible barriers. The Internet is spotty, the music ...
U Tin, a slide guitarist who became a global ambassador for Burmese music while working as a plumber under a military dictatorship, died on Feb. 5 in Yangon, Myanmar. He was 87. His daughter Daw Win ...
ACCORDING to Kit Young—an American pianist and composer who has been performing Burmese sandaya music (piano played in Burmese style) since 1987—the Hawaiian slide guitar was probably introduced to ...
Before Burmese refugees come to the U.S., they hold camp on the Burma-Thailand border. There are signs with pictures of hamburgers, Santa Claus and Joshua Tree National Park. It's sort of a ...
The performance will be preceded at 7:00 pm by free pre-performance lecture. Asia Society Museum's exhibition Buddhist Art of Myanmar is also open until 9:00 pm on Friday, May 10 (free Museum ...
The song was a cry against the living hell that descended upon the people of Myanmar since February 1st, when the military overthrew the country’s civilian government. It was also a song of solidarity ...
On a muggy day in May in the ramshackle city of Rangoon, an elderly Burmese man straightened rows of jade jewelry in a souvenir case. He organized a stack of traditional Burmese music CDs, one of ...
Clint Conley and I are developing a punkers’ Branson, a backwater sinkhole where yesterday’s Grand Old Buzz Cuts can go on pretending they’re famous. All we need are a location and start-up capital.
IN APRIL, a government dominated by Aung San Suu Kyi and her National League for Democracy (NLD) took over in Myanmar, ending decades of oppressive military-only rule. For both the music world and ...
Didn't get tickets to this sold-out program? Tune in to AsiaSociety.org/Live starting at 7:00 pm New York time for a free live video webcast. 7:00 pm pre-performance ...
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