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Hmong music is an important part of the culture of the Hmong people, an ethnic group from southeast Asia. Because the Hmong language is tonal, there is a close connection between Hmong music and the spoken language. Music is an important part of Hmong life, played for entertainment, for welcoming guests, and at weddings and funerals.
Hmong churches; Hmong funeral; Hmong music; Hmong textile art; The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down, a book by Anne Fadiman about the cultural and religious comparisons and misunderstandings between a Hmong refugee family and the California health care system. Hmong Archives
Hmong musicians from Guizhou perform on lusheng in a variety of sizes. The lusheng (simplified Chinese: 芦笙; traditional Chinese: 蘆笙; pinyin: lú shēng, pronounced [lǔʂə́ŋ]; Vietnamese: Khèn Mông; also spelled lu sheng; spelled ghengx in standard Hmong and qeej in Laotian RPA Hmong) is a Hmong musical instrument.
Bass Đàn môi. Dan moi and container. Derived from the mouth harp of the Hmong people, [1] Đàn môi (in Vietnamese: Đàn môi, "lip lute") is the Vietnamese name of a traditional musical instrument widely used in minority ethnic groups in Vietnam (including the Jrai "Rang Leh" [2]).
Thai Thao, frontman for pioneering Hmong rock band the Sounders, has been on a farewell tour performing as Thai Sounders. His final show is set for the Riverside Theater in Milwaukee on Feb. 10.
Hmong New Year is the biggest holiday of the year in Hmong culture, Vue said. Traditionally, the Hmong are agriculturalists and the new year celebrates the end of the harvest.
A Hmong theologian, Rev. Dr. Paul Joseph T. Khamdy Yang has proposed the use of the term "HMong" in reference to the Hmong and the Mong communities by capitalizing the H and the M. The ethnologist Jacques Lemoine has also begun to use the term (H)mong in reference to the entirety of the Hmong and Mong communities.
Lee has elevated a community that has for decades felt invisible and forgotten.