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Research Article| May 01 2018 Portrait of a Thai Country Singer: Pumpuang Duangjan Pahole Sookkasikon Pahole Sookkasikon Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Radical History Review (2018) 2018 (131): 159–163. https://doi.org/10.1215/01636545-4355281 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter Email Permissions Search Site Citation Pahole Sookkasikon; Portrait of a Thai Country Singer: Pumpuang Duangjan. Radical History Review 1 May 2018; 2018 (131): 159–163. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/01636545-4355281 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search nav search search input Search input auto suggest search filter Books & JournalsAll JournalsRadical History Review Search Advanced Search Considered to be one of Thailand’s most renowned singers, Pumpuang Duangjan was a beloved singer, actress, and model who changed the genre of luk thung, or Thai country music, by shaping it into a dance-ready form. Her music and lyricism were significant, as they conveyed the struggles of Thailand’s most vulnerable of citizens—women, peasants, and the poor—under the weighted shadow of national development and global capitalism, in addition to dominant idealizations of a homogenizing Thai identity. Chronicling Thailand as a postcolonial subject and moving beyond upper-class and royalist notions of Thainess, an examination of the musical craft of Pumpuang Duangjan, her songs, and their lyrical content help reimagine Thainess and state politics as viewpoints of the marginalized and disenfranchised become recentered. The text of this article is only available as a PDF. Pumpuang Duangjan, Thainess, Luk Thung, popular music, Thailand, globalization Copyright © 2018 by MARHO: The Radical Historians’ Organization, Inc.2018 You do not currently have access to this content.
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