Cham culture has no borders Derek Milroy  A group of Cham girls are pictured performing a traditional dance during the UNESCO conference in District 10 last week. Provided by Derek Milroy I was fortunate enough to be invited to the first-ever conference held by the I was surprised to be chatting with interested parties from all over the world who converged on the city to celebrate and take part in keeping alive this ancient group of people who have survived against all odds. In particular one dignitary whose presence above all gives a face to the Cham people – Che Linh. The singer who currently resides in Toronto, Canada was a proud man taking his place among the other Cham dignitaries who discussed in great lengths the way forward for the minority people who reside in Vietnam and in particular the traditional and modern songs and dance. The thing that has always struck me about the Cham culture apart from the beautiful red sandstone temples and monuments to a past time in places like Phan Rang, One of those was Japanese professor Shine Toshihiko, who speaks fluent Cham and Vietnamese and took part in the debate at the all-day symposium on the preservation and development of Cham music in District 10. He represents Japanese universities and is co-director of Toshihiko first became interested in the Cham culture thanks to a famous professor of Champa history at “I knew him when I was a high school student. Thanks to his inspiration, at university in central According to Toshihiko, in the beginning of Islamization in Southeast Asia, Islam followers came from The conclusion of the conference was that there should be separate modern musicians, dancers, directors and religious musicians and dancers. The Cham officials agreed to develop so-called modern Cham’s secular music and dance, and keep traditional Cham’s religious music and dance which were performed by some attractive young Cham girls during the conference. Another interested foreigner was Billy Noseworthy, 27, from He admits that he was completely oblivious to the existence of the Cham civilization and the Cham culture before 2006. However, listening to Professor of Asian Religions at “Professor Hopkins is a phenomenal story teller. His recounting of portions of the Ramayana at My Son is one of my earliest if not the earliest encounter I had with the Cham culture. My first formal collegiate level study of There are 162,000 Cham people still residing in There are priceless Cham artifacts with some individual pieces literally worth millions of dollars in the |
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