by Jinx Davis | Magazine, Music
Meet the bold women drummers in Cambodia. It was taboo for a woman to touch a drum in Cambodia. Medha turned history into herstory.
Music is a life force behind the human experience. It emerges out of culture and in turn, it can shape and influence culture. Its power can be used towards emancipation – or as a destructive tool for domination. Power is omnipresent.
by Jinx Davis | Artists, Events, Magazine, Music
Julien Poulson, founder of the Cambodian Space Project & KAMA It’s impossible to get a sense of contemporary Cambodia without an introduction to Julien Poulson, founder of the Cambodian Space Project, Kampot Arts & Music Association (KAMA) and Kampot...
by Jinx Davis | History, Magazine, Music
Cambodia Art & Culture: The Rock Opera Where Elephants Weep Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet has been retold countless times, and so has the old and similar Cambodian love story Tum Teav. Where Elephants Weep is the first Cambodian rock opera. It tells a...
by Jinx Davis | History, Magazine, Music
Cambodia Art: BANGSOKOL Two beloved Khmers and survivors of the Khmer Rouge—composer Him Sophy and filmmaker Rithy Panh (The Missing Picture)—create a musical ritual to return dignity to Cambodia’s dead from the genocide. Combining traditional Cambodian music,...