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The
Hmong Storytelling Project is a pilot program that pairs a younger Hmong
artist with and elder artist to learn and create new art work. This project
is focused on scoring funeral songs for infants who died before age one
(babies do not have a soul until their first birthday) and women who died
without a male relative to send her soul back to the ancestors. There other
types of funeral songs, or what we consider to be common funeral songs and
performances, but these songs were selected because one is performed less
often due to lower infant mortality rates and the other has always been
rare. With fewer elder artists and a high rate of documentation for the
common funeral songs, we wanted to ensure that these rare performances are
preserved in an art format that is permanent and accessible to anyone interested
in Hmong traditional art. |
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