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work_iabdrxfur5dhhcsebcq3wiyl24	James Mitchell	Red and Yellow Songs: A Historical Analysis of the Use of Music by the United Front for Democracy against Dictatorship (UDD) and the People's Alliance for Democracy (PAD) in Thailand	2011	40	.pdf	application/pdf	14193	895	67	article examines the use of music by the yellow and red shirts, and contextualizes the PAD and UDD within the history of two similarly named but very different genres of Thai song: phleng chiwit commercial genre of lukthung [Thai country song]. satirical songs and lukthung during Thailand's most recent political struggle, from 2005 to the present. A central focus of this article is phleng lukthung or Thai country music. economic crisis, lukthung was hailed as the most authentic Thai popular music genre (see Amporn, 2006). Isan cultural revival and political maturation was under way, and continued attempts to appropriate lukthung as an example of Central Thai song 'Long Live the King of Thailand' on the protest stage at Government House to rapturous applause.13 With such emphasis on royal and a song genre clearly influenced by the protest music of performers such absorbed into the Thai popular music industry, and the use of lukthung	./cache/work_iabdrxfur5dhhcsebcq3wiyl24.pdf	./txt/work_iabdrxfur5dhhcsebcq3wiyl24.txt