Hmong Music Research Bibliography

Kwv Txhiaj Hmoob Phau Ib (Hmong Kwv Txhiaj Book One), edited by Pang Xiong Sirirathasuk, T-Bee Lo. Philadelphia: The Southeast Asian Mutual Assistance Association Coalition, Inc. and the Hmong United Association of Pennsylvania, 1993.

Catlin, Amy. "Puzzling the Text: Thought-Songs, Secret Languages, and Archaic Tones in Hmong Music." The World of Music: Journal of the Department of Ethnomusicology, Otto-Friedrich University of Bamberg 39, no. 2 (1997): 69-81.

———. "Homo Cantens: Why Hmong Sing during Interactive Courtship Rituals." Selected Reports in Ethnomusicology 9, (1992): 43-60.

———. "Songs for Hmong Women: Virgins, Orphans, Widows and Bards." In Textiles and Texts: Arts of Hmong Women from Laos Los Angeles, edited by Amy Catlin and Dixie Swift. Los Angeles: The Woman's Building, 1987.

———. "The Hmong and their Music: A Critique of Pure Speech." In Hmong Art: Tradition and Change. Sheboygan: John Michael Kohler Arts Center, 1986.

———. "Harmonizing the Generations in Hmong Musical Performance." In Selected Reports in Ethnomusicology 6 (1985): 83-97.

———. "Speech Surrogate Systems of the Hmong: From Singing Voices to Talking Reeds." In The Hmong in the West: Observations and Reports, edited by Bruce T. Downing and Douglas P. Olney. Minneapolis: Center for Urban and Regional Affairs, University of Minnesota, 1982.

———. The Music of the Hmong: Singing Voices and Talking Reeds. Providence, RI: Center for Hmong Lore, 1981.

Catlin, Amy, and Ruriko Uchida. "Music of Upland Minorities in Burma, Laos, and Thailand." In The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music: Southeast Asia, edited by Terry E. Miller and Sean Williams. Vol. 4. New York: Garland Publishing, 1998.

Falk, Catherine. "Hmong Instructions to the Dead: What the Mouth Organ Qeej Says (Part One)." Asian Folklore Studies 63, no. 1 (2004): 1-29.

———. "Hmong Instructions to the Dead: What the Mouth Organ Qeej Says (Part Two)." Asian Folklore Studies 63, no. 2 (2004): 167-220.

———. "The Dragon Taught Us: Hmong Stories about the Origin of the Free Reed Pipes Qeej." Asian Music: Journal of the Society for Asian Music 35, no. 1 Fall-Winter (2003): 17-56.

———. "'If You have Good Knowledge, Close it Well Tight': Concealed and Framed Meaning in the Funeral Music of Hmong Qeej." British Journal of Ethnomusicology 12, no. 2 (2003): 1-33.

———. "Riddles and Lies: Instructions to the Dead in the Hmong Funeral Ritual." In Aflame with Music: 100 Years of Music at the University of Melbourne. Parkville, Vic.: Centre for Studies in Australian Music, University of Melbourne, 1996.

———. "The Music of the Hmong in Australia." http://www.hmongnet.org/hmong-au/hmmusic.htm (accessed July 15, 2000).

Johns, Brenda. "An Introduction to White Hmong Sung Poetry." In The Hmong World, edited by Brenda Johns and David Strecker. Vol. 1. New Haven, CT: Council on Southeast Asia Studies, 1986.

Johns, Brenda, and David Strecker. "Aesthetic Language in White Hmong." In The Hmong in the West: Observations and Reports, edited by Bruce T. Downing and Douglas P. Olney. Minneapolis: Center for Urban and Regional Affairs, University of Minnesota, 1982.

Lewis, Judith. "Hmong Visual, Oral, and Social Design: Innovation within a Frame of the Familiar." Master’s thesis, California State University, Sacramento, 1993, http://www.reninc.org/JudyLewisThesis.pdf (accessed January 20, 2005).

Mareschal, Eric. Musique des Hmong du Laos: cour d'amour et culte des ancetres [Hmong music from Laos: love songs and ancestor rites.]. Anthologie de la musique des peoples AMP 8-2911. Paris: SFPP, 1981.

———. La musique des Hmong. Paris: Musée Guimet, 1976.

McNamer, Megan. "Musical Change and Change in Music: Implications for Hmong Identity." In The Hmong World, edited by Brenda Johns and David Strecker. Vol. 1. New Haven, CT: Council on Southeast Asia Studies, 1986.

Morrison, Gayle. "The Hmong Qeej: Speaking to the Spirit World." Hmong Studies Journal 2, no. 2 (Spring, 1998), http://hmongstudies.com/HSJ-v2n1_Morrison.pdf (accessed March 25, 2005).

Poss, Nicholas. "The Communication of Verbal Content on the Hmong Raj: An Ethnographic Analysis of Performance Practice." Masters thesis, The Ohio State University, Columbus, 2006, http://www.poss.ws/nfpossthesis.pdf (accessed March 31, 2006).

Schein, Louisa. "Homeland Beauty: Transnational Longing and Hmong America Video." The Journal of Asian Studies 63, no. 2 (May, 2004): 433-463.

Schworer-Kohl, Gretel. "Zum Werkbegriff in Der Ethnomusikologie Und in Der Historischen Musikwissenschaft." In Ethnomusikologie und historische Musikwissenschaft: Gemeinsame Ziele, gleiche Methoden? Erich Stockmann zum 70. Geburtstag, edited by Christoph-Hellmut Mahling and Stephan Münch. Tutzing, Germany: H. Schneider.

———. "The Functions of the Music in a Shamanistic Session among Miao from Yunnan." In Lux Oriente: Begegnungen Der Kulturen in Der Musikforschung-- Festschrift Robert Gunther Zum 65. Geburtstag, edited by K.W. Niemöller, U. Pätzold, Chung Kyo-chul. Regensburg, Germany: Bosse, 1995.

———. "Musik und Animismus: Wie die Hmong in Nordthailand versuchen, von der Missgunst der Trommelgeister verschont zu bleiben" (Music and animism: How the Hmong in northern Thailand seek protection from the malevolence of the drum spirits). In Musik und Religion, edited by Marianne Bröcker. Berichte aus dem ICTM-Nationalkomitee, Bd. 1. Bamburg: Universitätsbibliothek Bamberg, 1992.

———. "Mouth Organ and Drum: The Symbols of Death among the Hmong in Northern Thailand." In Tradition and Its Future in Music, edited by Tokumaru Yosihiko. Osaka: Mita Press, 1991.

———. "Considering Gender Balance in Religion and Ritual Music among the Hmong and Lahu in Northern Thailand." In Music, Gender, and Culture. Wilhelmshaven, Germany: Florian Noetzel Verlag, 1990.

———. "Uber Den Begriff Ntiv in Der Musikterminologie Der Hmong in Nordthailand Und Laos." Jahrbuch Fur Musikalische Volks- Und Volkerkunde 14, (1990): 68-83.

———. "Sprachgebundene Mundorgelmusik Zum Totenritual Bei Den Hmong in Nordthailand Und Laos." In Bericht über den Internationalen Musikwissenschaftlichen Kongress, Bayreuth 1981, edited by Christoph-Hellmut Mahling und Sigrid Wiesmann. Kassel: Bärenreiter, 1984.

Thao, Hong. "Hmong Music in Vietnam." Translated by Thuyet Phong Nguyen. Nhac Viet: The Journal of Vietnamese Music 4, no. 2 (Fall, 1995).