Ratanakiri, Cambodia
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- Auteurs : Jeanneau Laurent ;
- Editeurs : Dali Kink Gong ;
- Date d'édition : 2006
- Sujets : Ethnomusicologie -- Cambodge, Ethnologie, Gongs, Animisme, Cambodge -- Rites et cérémonies
- Langue(s) : Chinois
- Description matérielle : 1 disque compact (1 h 04 min), 12 cm, : Digital, stéréo
- Pays de publication : Chine
- Collection (notice d'ensemble) : Kink Gong
Notes
Jaquette en anglais ; Enregistré en 2004 et 2006
Résumé
Ratanakiri is the nord-east province of Cambodia, at the boarder with Laos and Vietnam, with Mondolkiri (the province south of Ratanakiri) they used to be the territories of ethnic minorities or proto-khmer. In colonial times the french did not succeed in controlling the area, after independance the khmer tried to then the khmer rouges rebels were hidding in the forest of those provinces in the 60s, the extension of the conflict between communist Vietnam and the USA + the khmer rouge madness and the vietnamese occupation till 1991 could have destroyed totally the way of life of the ethnic minorities of north-east Cambodia, but indigenous people restarted in the80-90s their practice of swidden agriculture (slash and burn) and gong plying and kept their animist ceremonies and beliefs. Its only in the21th century that rubber plantations and developpement for the sake of big companies of dominant ethnic groupes (Khmer, Vietnamese, Chinese) took over and are a real threat to the way of life ethnic minorities who are not taken into account. Here you can listen to various gongs ensembles being played in animist rituals and for drinking the fermented rice alcohol called tavei, and instruments and vocals of Brao, Krung and Tampoon people in Ratanakiri province. Recorded at a time where rubber plantations had not taken the territory of indigenous people, and khmer techno music had not ruined ancestral music... ; Ratanakiri is in the north-east of Cambodia.