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Photo, Print, Drawing Cambodian music performed at the home of Sorn Veuk, Lowell, Massachusetts

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Title

  • Cambodian music performed at the home of Sorn Veuk, Lowell, Massachusetts

Names

  • DeNatale, Douglas (Research team member)
  • Taylor, David Alan, 1951- (Photographer)

Created / Published

  • September 20, 1987

Headings

  • -  Folklore--Massachusetts
  • -  Photographs
  • -  Ethnography
  • -  Documentary photographs
  • -  United States -- Massachusetts -- Lowell

Genre

  • Photographs
  • Ethnography
  • Documentary photographs

Notes

  • -  Index data: All of these photos were taken at the home of Sorn Veuk, 50 Ware Street, Lowell, Massachusetts, In connection with the field recording of traditional Cambodian music by Doug DeNatale and David Taylor. These Images are posed shots of Cambodian musicians taken at the end of the recording session. The musicians are sitting or standing in front of a curtain that surrounds Veuk's bed. The names of the musicians were not recorded by me, so I cannot be absolutely certain that I have correctly identified everyone. (For additional information, see LFP-DT-F0920.A, Doug's reel-to-reel tape log, Doug's fieldnotes, and Doug's photo logs.) Technical data: 35mm Nikkor lens and Vivitar 283 strobe used for each shot; film is T-Max 400. 1-3 blank Images (strobe unit not activated). 4, Nhak Chann plays the troe ou (violin with small resonator); 5, Nhak Chann plays the takne (dulcimer); 6-7, Sorn Veuk plays the skoe (drum); 8-9, unidentified musician plays the klm (hammered dulcimer); 10-11, Sokhm Bun plays the banjo; 12-13, unidentified musician plays the kloy (flute); 14-15, Chorb Chan plays the troe ou (violin with small resonator); 16, unidentified musician plays the kloy (flute), Chorb Chan plays the troe ou; 17-18, unidentified musician plays the troe sao (violin with large resonator); 19-20, all the musicians in the group, front row: Sokhm Bun (banjo), Nhak Chann (takne). back row: Sorn Veuk (skoe), unidentified, unidentified, unidentified, Chorb Chan; 21, photographs and posters on the wall of Sorn Veuk's apartment. Note: photo at top-center Is of Veuk and his wife; 22, photographs and posters on the wall of Sorn Veuk's apartment; 23, Sorn Veuk and Doug DeNatale. Note: Veuk's t-shirt reads: "Irish American"; 24, carving, in teak, of Angkor Wat done ly Sorn Veuk while In refugee camp.

Medium

  • 35 mm black-and-white film negatives

Call Number/Physical Location

  • Call number: AFC 1987/042: LFP-DT-229

Source Collection

  • Lowell Folklife Project collection (AFC 1987/042)

Repository

  • American Folklife Center

Online Format

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Credit line: Lowell Folklife Project collection (AFC 1987/042), American Folklife Center, Library of Congress

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Chicago citation style:

DeNatale, Douglas, and David Alan Taylor. Cambodian music performed at the home of Sorn Veuk, Lowell, Massachusetts. United States Lowell Massachusetts, 1987. Photograph. https://www.loc.gov/item/afc1987042_dt_229/.

APA citation style:

Denatale, D. & Taylor, D. A. (1987) Cambodian music performed at the home of Sorn Veuk, Lowell, Massachusetts. United States Lowell Massachusetts, 1987. [Photograph] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/afc1987042_dt_229/.

MLA citation style:

DeNatale, Douglas, and David Alan Taylor. Cambodian music performed at the home of Sorn Veuk, Lowell, Massachusetts. Photograph. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/afc1987042_dt_229/>.