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LONDON (1 June 2023) — The Jul/Aug issue of National Geographic Traveller (UK) is out now. The cover story this month focuses on the best-value safaris ...
Cambodia, like many Southeast Asian countries, enjoyed a golden era of popular music during the 1950s and 1960s, when Phnom Penh, known as the "Pearl of the Orient" became an important cultural centre, a breading ground for the meeting of Western rock and pop and Cambodian music. Author Dee Peyok in her fascinating new book Away From Beloved Lover: A Musical Journey Through Cambodia (Granta, UK, 2023) notes that "the music of East and West merged across Southeast Asia to the most fascinating mélange of instruments, attitudes and expressionism".
Many of the country’s musicians did not, as Dee Peyok recounts in her new book | Culture