From Modern Rock to Postmodern Hard Rock
Cambodian Alternative Music Voices
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5282199 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Linda Saphan (College of Mount Saint Vincent, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 35 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 23-39 |
| Publication date | 2012-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Ethnic studies review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1555-1881 • E-ISSN: 2576-2915 |
| Publisher | University of California Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1525/esr.2012.35.1.23 |
| OpenAlex | W2766080580 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 2 |
Cambodian modernity was driven by the political agenda of the Sihanouk government beginning in the 1950s, and Cambodian rock and roll emerged in the 1960s in step with Sihanouk's ambitious national modernization project. Urban rockers were primarily upper-class male youths. In. the postcolonial era rock and roll was appropriated from abroad and given a unique Cambodian sound, while today's emerging hard rock music borrows foreign sociocultural references along with the music. Postmodern Cambodia and its diaspora have seen the evolution of a more diverse music subculture of alternative voices of hard rock bands and hip-hop artists, as well as post-bourgeois and post-male singers and songwriters
Aesthetics · Art · Diaspora · Literature · Modernity · Modernization theory · Political science · Politics · Popular music · Postmodernism · Rock music · Sociocultural evolution · Sociology · Visual arts · Youth culture · Anthropology · Cambodian History and Society · Gender Studies · History · Law · Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies
| Citations per year | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2025 - 2025 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |