YouTube and the Hmong qeej

This paper focuses on the iconic Hmong musical instrument, the qeej, and its presence in cyberspace on YouTube videos. Hmong in the west now engage in an implicit auto-ethnography using this technology presenting new constructions of themselves to themselves as well as to other, non-Hmong people. Th...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Catherine Falk
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Hmong Studies Journal 2013-12-01
Series:Hmong Studies Journal
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Online Access:http://hmongstudies.org/FalkHSJ14.pdf