Comparative Studies of Culture Change in Traditional Music Behavior of the People in Northern Area of Thailand and Laos, and in South-west China.

这个项目已经在泰国北部、老挝和中国的西南部地区进行。在本世纪，许多少数民族从中国的山区移民到老挝、泰国和越南等偏远国家。他们随身携带着他们的歌声和音乐，这可能是识别所有者或携带者的最有效的媒介之一，也就是少数人。基本上，项目的对象集中在三个方面的音乐：每个人的原始音乐和行为，地区的本土音乐或古典音乐，以及整个山区部落或少数民族定居后音乐行为的真实状态或趋势。1993年和1994年的田野工作的主要立场是在老挝古都滦勃拉邦，围绕音乐的四个方面进行了关注。他说：传统的合奏形式，称为maholi，可能与孟库默文化及其宫廷音乐有关。2：粗略地追溯了整个老挝的音乐结构或演唱和歌曲的形式。包括对泰国北部典型演唱风格--莫拉姆的研究，这2是了解老挝音乐的开始。3：部分调查了民间戏剧和戏剧艺术，如现代音乐剧(林良)和玩偶戏剧(Ipok)。他说：少数民族，如Khamus、Hmongs和泰国Lue人，在他们的新村庄保持了他们的音乐传统。从上述角度进行比较研究正在进行中，预计将在越南北部等邻近地区进行更深入的研究。

This project has been carried out in Northern Thailand, Laos, and in South-west area of China. From mountainous part of China, many people of minorities have migrated to neiboring countries, such as Laos, Thailand and Vietnam, during this century. They have carried with them their singing and music, which may be one of the most effective media to identify the owner or carrier, that is the minolities. Basically, the object of the project has been focused on three facets of music of these districts concerned : the original music and behavior of each people, the native music of the districts or classical music, and the real state or tendencies of music behavior as a whole after the hill tribes or minolities have setteled down into their new land.The main stand of the field-work in 1993 and 1994, being in Luan Prabang, the ancient capital of Laos, four aspects around the music have been noticed. 1 : the traditional form of ensemble, called maholi, may have something to do with Mon Kumer culture and its court music. 2 : music structure or form of singing and songs in Laos as a whole was roughly traced. Including the study of molam, a typical singing style of Northern Thailand, this 2 is the beginning for the understanding of Lao music. 3 : Folk theater and theatrical arts, for example, modern musical (lam-luang) and the doll play (ipok) , were partly investigated. 4 : Minorities, such as the Khamus, the Hmongs, and the Thai Lues, have kept their music tradition in their new villages.The comparative studies from the point of view above mentioned are being made, expecting to research much more intensively and also in the neighborhood as northern Vietnam.