[Swprograms] Fwd: [ODXA] Speaking of BBC Radio 4...

[Richard Cuff <rdcuff@xxxxxxxxx>]

And this suggestion back from the ODXA's Fred Waterer...

Rich C


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From: Fred Waterer <programming_matters@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 10:55 PM
Subject: [ODXA] Speaking of BBC Radio 4...
To: odxa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx


A fascinating program is available for a few more days, perhaps the
best program I have heard in some time.

It looks at the music scene in Cambodia in the late 60s and early 70s,
and the development of "Khmer Rock"...a fusion of traditional
Cambodian music and Western Rock and Roll, which at the time blasted
across the border from Vietnam via AFVN (clips included).

The result is a quirky rock music, often sounding like psychedelic
garage bands. I've been surfing the net all day listening to and
reading about this music which until yesterday I didn't know existed.

Its also sobering to listen to the music and these artists, because
after April 1975 almost all of them died at the hands of the Khmer
Rouge, in the infamous killing fields. All for the crime of Rock and
Roll...for being artists, intellectuals, free thinkers and famous in a
land being driven back into the middle ages.

Khmer Rock and the Killing Fields

Khmer Rock and the Killing Fields
(Duration: 30 minutes)
Availability:

3 days left to listen

Last broadcast on Tuesday, 13:30 on BBC Radio 4.

Synopsis

Robin Denselow tells the story of Cambodia's rock and roll stars who
emerged during the late 1960s with a new sound known as Khmer Rock.
Under Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge, almost all these singers and
musicians were killed, but they are still revered by Cambodians today.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00lrv50

Fred Waterer


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Richard Cuff / Allentown, PA  USA

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