Today, the Kammu are an upland people mainly found in Laos, Yunnan and Thailand. It has long been recognized that this people - who have retained their orally based culture through to the present day - area a repository for much that has been lost or ignored in the literate cultures of their lowland neighbors. So it is too with music. What this volume offers is one person's repoertoire of social adult songs, namely the repertoire of Kam Raw, who grew up in a Kammu villiag in northern Laos. The words of the songs are given in the Kammu language with English interpretations. The songs are...