Arts and Music
The Nature of Revolution: Art and Politics Under the Khmer Rouge by Call Number: HX521 .T96 2019Publication Date: 2019 (Athens : The University of Georgia Press)"[This book] provides the first account of art and politics under the brutal Khmer Rouge regime in Cambodia, The Khmer Rouge as a political organization materialized in an era of anti-colonial and decolonization movements. Both its policies and its practices - including its production of poetry, music and photography - were shaped by these events."- Cambodian Culture Since 1975: Homeland and Exile byCall Number: DS554.8 .C359x 1994Publication Date: 1994 (Ithaca : Cornell University Press)See chapter 2, Khmer Literature Since 1975 by Khing Hoc Dy; chapter 3, Khmer Traditional Music Today; and chapter 8, Metaphors of the Khmer Rouge, by John Marston.
Cambodge l'atelier de la mémoire = Cambodia : the memory workshop : Kambujā : sippasālā stībī kārcangcaṃ by Call Number: ND1015 .P43 2010 +Publication Date: 2010 ([Phnom Penh] : Bophana Audiovisual Resource Center : Éd. Sonleuk Thmey ; [Saint-Denis] : Université Paris 8)(In French, English & Khmer. Includes documentary DVD). Workshops in Phnom Penh in 2008/9 led by Tuol Sleng survivors, artists Vanh Nath and Sera, working with young Cambodian visual artists.
- Khmer Rouge Songsby John Marston. In Crossroads: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, vol.16 no.1, 2002, pp.100-127. "The article explores the meaning of songs written and performed during the revolutionary Democratic Kampuchea period in Cambodia (1975-79)."
- Khmer Rouge Songs -- AudioMore than 100 songs and instrumentals. (from Documentation Center of Cambodia Archives: Music and Performing Arts)
- Don't Think I've Forgotten: Cambodia's Lost Rock & RollCall Number: DVD 1340 (Music Library A/V)Publication Date: 2014 ([Brooklyn, New York] : Argot Pictures)1 hour 47 min. film by John Pirozzi " [This film] tracks the twists and turns of Cambodian music as it morphs into rock and roll, blossoms, and is nearly destroyed along with the rest of the country under the brutal Khmer Rouge regime." Interviews with surviving musicians, never-before-seen archival material and rare songs. Separate soundtrack is CD 23296 (Music Library).
Garland Encyclopedia of World Music by Call Number: ML100 .G16 1997 + (In Asia Reference)Publication Date: 2002 (New York : Garland Pub., 1998-2002)vol. 4, Southeast Asia. See pp. 207-210, on popular music during the 1970's and the destruction by the Khmer Rouge of music genres and practitioners. (Online link: pp. 229-232).
Poetry, Literature
Corpse Watching by Call Number: PS3616.E65 C67 2008 + (2nd ed.)Publication Date: 2008 (Kāne'ohe, HI : Tinfish Press)"The river is swollen, The current is strong, Corpses float by all day long." A collection of poems written by Sarith Peou in Minnesota State Prison. He had been tortured by the Khmer Rouge in his teens, forced to bury mutilated bodies, operated on without anesthetic, his father killed, his little sister beaten and made to carry cow dung on her head.
O! Maha Mount Dangrek: Poetry of Cambodian Refugee Experiences by Call Number: PL 4328.9 A44 O53 2010Publication Date: 2010-01-01[In Khmer and English] Poems by a Buddhist monk discovered years after his death. Venerable Ly Van was a Khmer Rouge genocide refugee, becoming a monk and living at Glory Buddhist Temple in Lowell, Mass. "Khmer Rouge Regime: A Personal Nightmare" describes what happened to him in Cambodia; "The Unfortunate Love of Sophean Chea: A Biographical Poem" is an epic poem about a novice monk, his love Akphirom, their separation and his time in a refugee camp in Thailand in 1979. Many photographs of the Khmer Rouge and of life in the camp.
The Killing Fields by Call Number: PR6058.U18 K4 in Library Annex)Publication Date: 1984 (New York : Dell)Novel on which the movie was based. "Sydney Schanberg and Dith Pran -- a seasoned American reporter and a courageous Cambodian newsman. One would risk his career, the other his life, to tell the world the story of a war their governments denied was happening."
Dance
- The Tenth Dancer (Video)Em Theay, classical dancer, describes her training at the Royal Court Ballet before Pol Pot; the devastation of traditional culture carried out by the Khmer Rouge; her survival as the last of the original dancers, and teaching dance to a new generation of students., including her prize student who suffered the deaths of most of her family under the Khmer Rouge.
- Dancing Through Death(Ethnographic Video Online) Filmakers Library, N.Y., 1999. 56 min. Film including original footage, about Cambodia's court and classical dance culture, how it was almost obliterated by the Khmer Rouge, kept alive in refugee camps, now being revived and taught in communities in the U.S. Dancers who survived describe their life under Pol Pot; Thavro Phim returned to visit Cambodia and sites of genocide, searching for what happened to his grandfather.