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During the festival, a lusheng competition takes place among individuals and among teams composed of five people. [1] They play lusheng music and dance in ritualized forms ( lusheng dance). [ 1 ] The players with more tunes and brighter sounds will win and their lusheng will be hung with red ribbons, as a symbol of honor in the village. [ 9 ]
Music is an important part of Hmong life, played for entertainment, for welcoming guests, and at weddings and funerals. Hmong musical instruments includes flutes such as the dra, leaves also called nblaw , two-string vertical fiddle ( xim zaus in Hmong), and the qeej or gaeng , a type of mouth organ.
Khene player at the Ubon Candle Festival In Laos, the primary function of Khene (the gourd mouth organ in Laotian) is to accompany singing. In Iam nithan , long tales derived from Buddhist sathaka (the stones of Buddha's previous births) were sung by a soloist accompanied by a Khene . [ 12 ]
Formed out of the male-dominated music scenes of jam music (in the case of Bonnaroo), late-’90s indie rock (Coachella), and early ’90s alternative and grunge (Lollapalooza), these festivals tend to celebrate diversity while dismissing the most popular pop acts — the ones who tend to dominate the charts and who tend so often to be female ...
The body is removed from the house on a stretcher while “Song of Mounting The Way” is being played on the qeej (Tapp 84, 86, 87). A female from the village will then guide the funeral procession with a torch to “light the way” for the corpse (Tapp 85). Along the way the procession takes steps to confuse the evil spirits.
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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
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