Laura Mam is Cambodian American, and her mother, Thida Buth, is a Khmer Rouge survivor. They're fostering the pop music movement in Cambodia that... Across Languages And Generations, One Family Is ...
Cambodia's 2020 foreign-language Oscar submission, 'In the Life of Music,' deals with the stories and songs that define the Killing Fields genocide generation, says co-director Caylee So. By Mathew ...
SAN JOSE (KPIX) -- A Bay Area mother and daughter are leading the way, as an explosion of new music is coming out of Cambodia after being silenced for years. Laura Mam did not set out to become a ...
Take Two translates the day’s headlines for Southern California, making sense of the news and cultural events that affect our lives. Produced by Southern California Public Radio and broadcast from ...
Lauren Yee’s play draws on the music of Dengue Fever to track the fate of a fictional Cambodian band that ran afoul of the Khmer Rouge. Is there anything less politically threatening than a rock band ...
Cambodia isn’t a country usually associated with giddy, psychedelic-pop music, but in the late 1960s and early ’70s the Southeast Asian nation turned into a rock ‘n’ roll hothouse inflamed, strangely ...
Cambodia has chosen 'In the Life of Music,' a drama that follows the fortunes of a family across three generations, as its entry for the best international feature film category at the 2020 Oscars. By ...
Eight years ago, one of playwright Lauren Yee’s friends took her to see indie-rock band Dengue Fever. “As soon as I heard them, I said, ‘Oh my god this music is amazing!’ ” the San Francisco-born ...
Families, their histories, and family relationships always yield rich fodder for dramatic stories, a fact storytellers and playwrights have long realized. Playwright Lauren Yee adheres to that tenet, ...
Laura Mam is one of Cambodia's biggest pop stars, but she wasn't born or raised in the country. She's American, and even though both of her parents are originally from Cambodia, she hardly spoke a ...
Lauren Yee’s play draws on the music of Dengue Fever to track the fate of a fictional Cambodian band that ran afoul of the Khmer Rouge. Is there anything less politically threatening than a rock band ...
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