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Literature TalkLiterature TalkDiscarded Civilization: Music, Intimate Nightlife Labor, and the Development of Thailand during the Cold War
Southside
Uncover how Bangkok's nightlife shaped an entire nation's economy. Music scholar Benjamin Tausig traces six years of archival research through the G.I. era, revealing how bars, bands, and laborers built modern Thailand — and what America left behind.
Academic lecture
Music ethnography
Cold War history
Southeast Asian studies
Tips
📚author of Bangkok After Dark
🎵six years of archival research
Discarded Civilization: Music, Intimate Nightlife Labor, and the Development of Thailand during the Cold War
Southside
Literature TalkLiterature TalkUncover how Bangkok's nightlife shaped an entire nation's economy. Music scholar Benjamin Tausig traces six years of archival research through the G.I. era, revealing how bars, bands, and laborers built modern Thailand — and what America left behind.
Academic lecture
Music ethnography
Cold War history
Southeast Asian studies
Tips
📚author of Bangkok After Dark
🎵six years of archival research
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