{"id":142,"date":"2017-10-02T16:30:38","date_gmt":"2017-10-02T13:30:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/disco.teak.fi\/asia\/?p=142"},"modified":"2025-11-05T13:32:18","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T11:32:18","slug":"lakhon-bassac-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/disco.teak.fi\/asia\/lakhon-bassac-2\/","title":{"rendered":"<em>Lakhon Bassac<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The classical traditions of Cambodia are, to a great extent, an integral part of the Indian-influenced court culture of South-East Asia. On the other hand, <em>lakhon bassac,<\/em> the popular theatre of Cambodia, bears strong Vietnamese and Chinese influences as a result of the close contacts between Cambodia and southern Vietnam during the period of French colonial rule.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Lakhon bassac<\/em> is a form of spoken and sung theatre accompanied by both Vietnamese\/Chinese-influenced music and Cambodian music. Sometimes even Western instruments are included. The acting is often improvised, while Cambodian classical dance gestures and poses are included in the dance scenes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The stories are performed in the style of romantic comedy with additional elements of farce. The plots may deal with mythical and historical themes or themes from the Buddhist <em>Jataka <\/em>stories. Vietnamese and Chinese stories are also used. Earlier, performances could last as many as six nights. There were tens of <em>lakhon bassac<\/em> troupes performing all over the country before the beginning of the unrest of the early 1970s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The classical traditions of Cambodia are, to a great extent, an integral part of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2583,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cambodia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/disco.teak.fi\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/disco.teak.fi\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/disco.teak.fi\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/disco.teak.fi\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/disco.teak.fi\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/disco.teak.fi\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4619,"href":"https:\/\/disco.teak.fi\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142\/revisions\/4619"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/disco.teak.fi\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/disco.teak.fi\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/disco.teak.fi\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/disco.teak.fi\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}