Author Dee Peyok’s Away From Beloved Lover: A Musical Journey Through Cambodia proves a great read
published : 23 May 2023 at 04:00
Cambodia, like many Southeast Asian countries, enjoyed a golden era of popular music during the 1950s and 1960s, when Phnom Penh, known as the “Pearl of the Orient” became an important cultural centre, a breading ground for the meeting of Western rock and pop and Cambodian music. Author Dee Peyok in her fascinating new book Away From Beloved Lover: A Musical Journey Through Cambodia (Granta, UK, 2023) notes that “the music of East and West merged across Southeast Asia to the most fascinating mélange of instruments, attitudes and…
