Eli Carlton-Pearson, 18, sits cross-legged on a kgray, the wooden- slat bed common in Cambodia, and wails out an improvised blues tune on his homemade guitar, fingers flashing like sparks across the ...

Unless one is visiting a place with a large expat Cambodian population – such as Long Beach, California – it is almost unheard of to hear a Khmer language song played during large festivals and ...

But Huy says the eyes were the hardest — the photographs of Khmer Rouge victims, whose stares she and her producers would use to gauge how much pain could be tastefully set to electric guitar and ...

Before performing a ballad dedicated to his late mother, Cambodian rapper and singer Norith warned the sold-out crowd gathered at Asian Art Museum's Samsung Hall that his emotions might get the best ...

A three-day arts festival – featuring film screenings, a still film photo exhibition, Khmer performing arts, a concert featuring Princess Norodom Jenna, a fashion show and even the announcement of a ...

As the popularity of rock 'n' roll expanded during the ’60s, that coolness reached every corner of the globe, including Cambodia. The rock 'n' roll radio airwaves enjoyed by U.S. armed forces in ...

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