Cambodian prototype

"Cambodian Performing Arts" prototype

The "Cambodian" prototype pages on this Web site sample the full Cambodia title for America's Ethnic Peforming Arts series, a sub-set of a larger series, World Anthology of Performing Arts. When fully funded, the complete Cambodian title will include bios of outstanding Cambodian-American performing artists and will expand

Content
Levels
Features

Content
Genres	U.S. Artists	Geographic/Regional	Background context
dance puppet theater theater masked theater music folk tales folk games Buddhist chant	Somaly Hay, dancer Ngek Chum, musician Ra Khlay, musician Chan Moly Sam, dancer Sam-Oen Tes, dancer	urban rural Khmer minorities	Five periods of Cambodian history General social/cultural background Asian and world links/comparisons

Levels
	Dance	Music
1. Surface	story, e.g., Mani Mekhala	instruments, sounds, ensembles
2. Elements	hand gestures, body positions	techniques
3. Background	symbolism, social context, training	symbolism, social context, training
4. Analysis	choreography, cross-cultural comparisons	scales, transcription, form, cross-cultural comparisons

Features

"PBS documentary style." Voice-overs, video, audio, and animation non-interactive roll-through
Inline video, animation in same browser window, not another window

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