MUSIQUE MNONG GAR DU VIETNAM
enregistrements de Georges Condominas
COLLECTION MUSEE DE L'HOMME
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MNONG GAR MUSIC FROM VIETNAM
recordings Georges Condominas
COLLECTION ''MUSEUM OF MAN''
Disques Ocora, ORTF, 1972, OCR 80
This is the first volume of a series called ''Anthology of Proto-Indochinese Music''. As far as I know there was no follow up.
Georges Condominas was a French ethnologist specialized in South-east Asia. He was born in Haiphong (Vietnam) in 1921 and died in Paris in 2011. He started his field surveys in 1948 at Sar Luk among the Mnong Gar which he studied over a long period. From this experience he published a book (among others) in 1957 translated to English in 1977 : ''we ate the forest of the spirit-stone Gôo''. He was totally committed to anti-colonialism, to promoting development that respects traditional cultures and he tried to warn the French public of the Mnong Gar ethnocide. Unfortunately he was not really understood at that time.
He wrote the texts introducing the music he recorded with enough detail to enjoy what we hear. The gong (that they don't make but buy from other people) is one the main instruments played in bands sometimes with the support of a drum. The mouth organ is in use too.There are songs for funerals, love songs or kind of mythological songs.
Some tracks were recorded in Cambodia among another population close to the Mnong Gar.
Texts in English (and French).
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