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Muy Thai music excerpts
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- Creator
- Kristin Post
- Date created
- Unknown
- Duration
- 1:04
- Location
- Chiang Mai, Thailand
- File
- MP3
- License
- This recording copyright ©2000. Terms of use
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Muy Thai is Thai kickboxing.
In Chiang Mai, fellow travelers and I went to see a Muy Thai competition. It looks a lot like American boxing, where bare-chested fighters compete in a raised ring that is surrounded by elastic ropes. They fight in several rounds, and a referee watches the action. Unlike American boxing, Thai fighters can use their legs as well as fists and arms. Another unique feature is the music that is played to accompany the fighting. This audio includes two excerpts of music that is played while the fight is taking place. In it you can hear instruments, rhythms, and melodies that sound unfamiliar to the Western ear. I am unsure which instruments were being played.
