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Two faces of Thailand : a musical portrait / produced and directed by Jeremy Marre ; a Harcourt Film production for Channel Four.
LIBRA Music Videorecording 89
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Video
- Series:
- Beats of the heart
- Language:
- English
- Thai
- Subjects (All):
- Popular music--Thailand.
- Popular music.
- Folk music.
- Thailand.
- Popular music--Thailand--Western influences.
- Folk music--Thailand.
- Folk music--Thailand--Western influences.
- Ethnic music recordings--Thailand.
- Local Subjects:
- Ethnic music recordings--Thailand.
- Genre:
- Documentary films.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 videocassette : sound, color ; 1/2 in.
- 1/2 in.
- polychrome
- Place of Publication:
- [Newton, N.J.] : Shanachie Entertainment Corp., [1994]
- System Details:
- analog
- magnetic
- stereo
- VHS
- Summary:
- Surveys modern Thai music with its blend of Thai tradition and Western pop as typified by Luk Tung street theater with its combination of folk tunes and western rhythms and sentiments. Takes the viewer to a palace jam session with the king, to boxing arenas and Buddhist ceremonies illustrative of the diversity of Thai music and instrumentation.
- Participant:
- Features performances of Surachai Sumbatcharon and his troupe of Luk Tung singers and dancers.
- Credits:
- Camera, Dick Pope, David Scott; editors, Roland Armstrong, Georgina Bishop.
- Notes:
- Documentary.
- English, or Thai with English subtitles.
- At head of title on label: Shanachie home video.
- Videorecording of a film originally produced in 1983.
- VHS stereo hi-fi.
- "SH 1214".
- OCLC:
- 31524153
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