Criticism of New E-san: A Concept Paper through Thai-Esan music

Abstract

This article aims to understand and prove a notion on a development of new E-San. The author has tried to testify the study via songs as a kind of social contents. The study employs hermeneutics as tools to understand and search for knowledge. The result finds that, not only for purposing of entertainment, singing, dancing and humming of local people in the northeastern region of Thailand from past to present have reflected the power relationship in politics that have had an effect toward society continuously.  Although the E-San society has opened for a wave of incoming technologies after the Cold War, once considering regarding song contents, beliefs of local people in E-San have remain associating with power and traditional norms. An emergence of no-boundary world did not definitely change the root of beliefs among them. In contrast, the wave of boundless world has promoted the tradition belief significantly.