Recent scholarship has opened questions as to the everyday actions of the Khmer Rouge and those living under the regime which led to the Cambodian Genocide. Current work examines the critical cultural geographies of the Khmer Rouge: photography, poetry and music, for example. Music specifically has an interesting underpinning, as it was previously understood to be have been eradicated in the genocide as the standard narrative has us believe. This paper instead investigates the pieces of evidence that exist, which explain the use of music by the Khmer Rouge. I explore the geographies of music beyond the lyrics and look at the transformation and use of music in Cambodia and Democratic Kampuchea. What elements of traditional Khmer music were used during the regime? What modifications occurred to the music of Cambodia during the regime, and how did the Khmer Rouge modify existing Cambodian (and other) music to best fit their desired uses (state‐building and genocide)? This paper goes beyond traditional geographies of music, which rely on lyrical analyses, to bring an ethnomusicological perspective to the work of music and its role in shaping the idea of the Democratic Republic of Kampuchea.

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音乐作品：红色高棉统治下的柬埔寨传统音乐和国家建设

最近的奖学金对高棉胭脂以及那些导致柬埔寨种族灭绝的政权下的人们的日常行为提出了质疑。当前的工作着眼于红色高棉的重要文化地理学，例如摄影，诗歌和音乐。音乐尤其具有有趣的基础，因为我们以前认为，种族屠杀已根除了标准叙事，因此我们相信它已被根除。取而代之的是，本文调查了现有的证据，这些证据解释了红色高棉对音乐的使用。我探讨了歌词之外的音乐地理环境，并探讨了柬埔寨和民主柬埔寨的音乐转型和使用。在该政权期间使用了传统高棉音乐的哪些元素？政权期间，柬埔寨的音乐发生了什么变化，高棉胭脂如何修改现有的柬埔寨（和其他）音乐以最适合其期望的用途（国家建设和种族灭绝）？本文超越了依靠抒情分析的传统音乐地理学，为音乐工作及其在塑造柬埔寨民主共和国思想中的作用带来了民族音乐学的观点。