Singing the lives of the Buddha : Lao folk opera as an educational medium.
Singing the lives of the Buddha : Lao folk opera as an educational medium.
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歌颂佛陀的一生:老挝民间歌剧作为教育媒介。
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1993
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Jean Merrill Bernard
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Jean Merrill Bernard
SINGING THE LIVES OF THE BUDDHA: LAO FOLK OPERA AS AN EDUCATIONAL MEDIUM MAY, 1993 JEAN BERNARD-JOHNSTON B.A. , THE GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY M.A.T., ST. MICHAEL'S COLLEGE Ed.D., UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS Directed by: Professor Robert J. Miltz Lao folk opera is a unique blend of popular theatre and sung poetry performed among Lao-speaking people of rural Southeast Asia for a wide range of social and religious purposes. As a traditional medium for popular education, its primary function has been to preserve the cultural identity of the ethnic Lao by re-enacting ancient myths, local folk legends, and morality tales based on the penultimate lives of the Buddha. This dissertation explores the role of Lao folk opera as a medium for constructively addressing problems of cultural conflict and acculturative stress that have arisen among lowland Lao refugees and their children in urban America. The central focus of the inquiry is on the ways Lao folk opera currently functions as a learning medium in the resettlement context. The need for validation of such locally produced endogenous media has become increasingly apparent as long term term resettlement issues continue to emerge as threats to linguistic and cultural identity.