Reporting from Yangon, Myanmar — U Tin cut his teeth as a musician playing Burmese folk songs for silent movies, which in this time warp of a country remained popular well into the 1950s. The ...
Myanmar is known for political oppression and poverty under the rule of the world's longest-lasting military dictatorship. But a University of Dayton music professor reveals a different side of the ...
Myanmar/Burmese musicians’ use of foreign instruments in the last 150 years has enchanted the ear of many newcomers to the music of lowland Myanmar/Burma. Foreign listeners recognize familiar timbres ...
Filmmaker Cyrus Moussavi and photographer Jacob Russell spent four weeks traveling through eastern Burma searching for music and stories that went unheard under the old regime. For five decades, a ...
NEW YORK, December 12, 2003 — High points from Asia Society's evening of traditional Burmese music and dance performances, featuring the Hsaing Waing Ensemble. (5 min., 43 sec.) ...
On a muggy day in May in the ramshackle city of Rangoon, an elderly Burmese man straightened rows of jade jewelry in a souvenir case. He organized a stack of traditional Burmese music CDs, one of ...
Before Burmese refugees come to the U.S., they hold camp on the Burma-Thailand border. There are signs with pictures of hamburgers, Santa Claus and Joshua Tree National Park. It's sort of a ...
His daughter Daw Win Win Toe said the cause was complications of diabetes. His daughter Daw Win Win Toe said the cause was complications of diabetes. Tin was one of several prominent Myanmar musicians ...
U Tin, a slide guitarist who became a global ambassador for Burmese music while working as a plumber under a military dictatorship, died on Feb. 5 in Yangon, Myanmar. He was 87. His daughter Daw Win ...
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