Voices of Pailin Park: A Soundmapping Workshop
About this Event
If you are from Lowell, you probably know Roberto Clemente Park, or Pailin Park, as an epicenter of Cambodian American social life. But what makes Pailin Park a Cambodian park in an American city? This workshop explores this question by considering sound as resrouce with which Cambodian Americans in Lowell have claimed cultural spaces and identities since arriving in the city as refugees nearly 50 years ago. We will dicuss ways that people use sounds and voices to make place in Cambodian Lowell, and together we will create our own "soundmaps" of the newly renovated Celemente Park.
About Dr. Brad DeMatteo:
Dr. Brad DeMatteo is an ethnomusicologist specializing in the sounds of Cambodian America and refugee communities in America more broadly. He is currently a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of North Carolina’s Bringing Southeast Asia Home initiative, where he is completing his forthcoming book about Cambodian American vocal practices and refuge in Lowell, Massachusetts.
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