[Online] Humanism in Popular Music from Thailand: Add Carabao's album 'Poem'
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This will be an online Zoom meeting. Please RSVP on our Meetup for this event to get access to the Zoom link. See our online meeting instructions at: https://torontooasis.org/online-meeting-instructions
Our program will run from 11 am to 12:30 pm. You can join the meeting starting at 10:30 am for our open social. After 12:30 pm, we will also have an extended discussion for half an hour, until 1:00 pm.
Our featured speaker will be Ann Norman, who learned to speak Thai while working in Thailand for two years in the mid ‘80s. Twenty years later, she relearned the language, and learned to read Thai in order to translate the songs of her favorite band, Carabao, into English. From there she was recruited into the Thai prodemocracy movement, and served as the Executive Director of the Thai Alliance for Human Rights for two years.
As a preview to her talk on Humanism in Popular Music from Thailand, Ann wrote this article that lists 30-some songs, with excerpted lyrics. Each song title in the list is hyperlinked to the page with the music video and entire translation. You can check out Ann's article here:
https://carabaoinenglish.com/uncategorized/humanism-in-the-add-carabao-songs
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