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The Voice of the Khene: Enchanted Airs from the Lao Pan Flute.(Review)

Asian Folklore Studies,  December, 2000  by Groemer, Gerald

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The Voice of the Khene: Enchanted Airs from the Lao Pan Flute. Music of Asia Collection. SevenOrients 777. CDM.LT1 (December 1998). Compact disk.

The music of Laos is still one of the least well-known musics in the world, with no upland group's music ever having been studied systematically on site and comparatively little fieldwork of any sort having been accomplished anywhere in the country. This situation stems largely from the fact that the country was virtually closed to outsiders from 1975 to 1990. Terry MILLER'S pioneering 1985 study Traditional Music of the Lao, for ...

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