So I've decided to start a blog to track my journey from the start till end of my thesis writing. All thanks to Meryl who inspired me with her Otter blog. Think it's better this way to keep my thoughts grounded and pen those ideas down before I lose them to outer space...
Just dropped Dr Carl an email regarding some ideas I got from the first round of research, and it seems like focusing on performance spaces is the way to go (for now). At the moment, the idea for my thesis is to study how students from Chiang Rai Rajabhat University negotiate the space they are in, by looking at their adaptations of musical tastes and their productions of hybrid forms of music. Got to look out for students of ethnic minority races who've incorporated elements of their ethnic music to the music they write, and perhaps created fusion forms of music. I'll probably have to do quite a bit of translations when it comes to interpreting song lyrics... definitely got to count on Jip for help!
So I chanced upon this international website for the Hmong community, and it's featured quite a few music videos (posted on youtube unsurprisingly) of Hmong youths performing renditions of Hmong songs. I think the one with the girl singing in the snow is pretty funny... wonder if it'd be the same singing "Singapore Town" somewhere else. Messes with the stereotypes you attach to MTVs and your expectations. I definitely didn't expect to chance upon these... truly amazing.
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