Thai country music faces Facebook heartbreak
- Published: 17 Sep 2012 at 00.00
- Newspaper section: Life
Taking after age-old oral tradition, luk thung - Thai country music - has always been able to encapsulate the moods of an era, trends of certain times and mass celebrations or social ills of any given year.
If you want to recapture how Thailand was at one particular point, the back catalogue of luk thung songs would be able to tell you what Thai society ate, where teens hung out or, on an international scale, what kind of war the world was engaged in.
For the past decade, luk thung songs have touched on the subject of homosexuality and mobile phones, among many other matters, as they spiked the public's interest.
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