Khmer Oral History Project: Interview with Loeung Bun
| Khmer Oral History Project: Interview with Loeung Bun (Supplied title) | |
|---|---|
| Collection | Khmer Oral History Project |
| Recording type | Interview |
| Narrator | Loeung Bun |
| Subjects | Music & Sound; History & Remembrance; Migration & Diaspora |
An interview with Loeung Bun recorded for the Khmer Oral History Project and catalogued by the Minnesota Historical Society. (Minnesota Historical Society record)
Description
Loeung Bun grew up in Mongkol Borei and Battambang, was orphaned at sixteen, taught himself music and plays a number of Cambodian stringed instruments. He describes travelling with a band and living in Sisophon with his family when the Khmer Rouge came to power in 1975, the separation of his family, and being spared so that he could play music at Khmer Rouge performances where Cambodians in the audience were often killed. From 1979 to December 1981 he lived in several Thai refugee camps before coming to Minnesota, where he describes being taken advantage of by a sponsor and a landlord; his wife and two daughters live in the United States and his son still lives in Cambodia. (Minnesota Historical Society record)
Credits
The catalogue record names Loeung Bun as the narrator and states no interviewer, so the interviewer is not recorded here. The interviews in this project were recorded in July and August 1992 and the project copyright is held by Minnesota Advocates for Human Rights. (Minnesota Historical Society record) (Minnesota Historical Society project description)
Access
The interview is catalogued in the Minnesota Historical Society collections search, which states no item number, no access restriction and no online recording link, so a researcher should ask the society how to listen or view. (Minnesota Historical Society record) KhmerConnection indexes this material and does not hold or provide access to the recordings.