การปรากฏขึ้นของเพลงลาหู่สมัยใหม่ และการก่อตัวของอัตลักษณ์ลาหู่คริสต์: ดนตรีลาหู่ในฐานะทรัพยากรทางวัฒนธรรม

บทคัดย่อ

This paper examines the musical situations and the development of popular music among an ethnic minority. It claims that a new genre of songs, which are sung in Lahu language and with Western melodies, serves for Christian Lahu as a cultural resource for providing a basis to claim an ethnoreligious identity. The paper first describes different musical situations among Traditionalist and Christian Lahu, and explains the development of popular music among Christian Lahu. Finally it examines the new genre of songs found among Christian Lahu in terms of being a cultural resource that can be utilized as a basis for a new ethnic-cum-religious identity as Christian Lahu.