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The number of years Googoosh stayed in Iran away from the public eye before going to LA.
What is 20 years?
The reason why diasporas resonate with Googoosh's music (keyword for today!)
What is "nostalgia"?
The name of Sengdala's ongoing archival project aimed at preserving Cambodian refugee memory across the US
What is "The Bamboo City Archive"?
This fraction of Cambodian musicians were killed/died in Khmer Rouge labor camps.
What is 9/10?
This Duke alum and Korean-American actor used to be a full-time physician.
Who is Ken Jeong?
The article explains how Googoosh became a icon of this time period in Iran
What is the Pahlavi Period?
Googoosh’s image in the 1960s–70s symbolized changing expectations for this group in Iranian society.
Who are women?
This Thai refugee camp, operating from 1972-1993, housed upto 140,000 Khmer refugees and became a site of cultural preservation
What is "Khao I Dang"?
Cambodian rock music of the 1960s-70s blended these two broad musical influences
What is Western rock/soul and traditional Khmer music?
This Japanese-Irish American wrote a song that famously references the "third of December."
Who is "Conan Gray"?
The role Googoosh played in her famous music video.
What is "Mother Iran"?
The justification of the Islamic Republic overthrowing the government
What is too much US involvement?
The Khmer Rouge was led by this person with the goal of erasing modern civilization
Who is Pol Pot?
Unlike traditional cartoons in children's textbooks, the Khao I Dang textbook features these at the top of a math worksheet instead.
What are three cartoon rock musicians?
Before this beautiful man starred in an Oscar-winning movie about winning a million dollars, this British-Gujarati actor debuted in a UK teen drama.
Who is "Dev Patel"?
The strategy Googoosh used in her storytelling that was first used against her by revolutionists
What is "victimization"?
The reason why artists had to flee the country
What is women weren't allowed to sing western music in front of mixed crowds?
Sengdala discovered the two musical artifacts through a spontaneous meeting with this researcher, who studies Khao I Dang
Who is Hudson McFann?
The Khmer Rouge specifically targeted Cambodian rock musicians because their music symbolized this theme.
What is Western influence/Modernization?
This Thai-American actress starred in a Disney Channel show and later starred in an Oscar-winning movie with Andrew Garfield
Who is Brenda Song?
The Iranian way of saying "Western music."
What is "musiqi ye pap"?
The way Googoosh warned against reductionist binaries.
What is "singing competition" with a "conservative, hijabi" winner to show that music served beyond reductionist binaries?
The Khmer Rouge killed approximately this percentage of Cambodia's entire population through execution, starvation, and forced labor.
What is 25% of the entire population?
This is the name of the traditional Khmer folk song found written in Western staff notation in the Khao I Dang textbook-- about a bird dancing and singing on a branch.
What is Sarika Keo?
"There is no spoon."
Who is Keanu Reeves?