We present three files from the archives of the Cambodian National Radio. The first two files are traditional pieces of music performed and recorded in the late 1960s and produced in 1971. The third file is a 38 minute Ayai comedy about villagers preparing for Cambodian New Year, performed and recorded in 1984.

About Maggie Jack

Maggie is a PhD candidate at Cornell University in the Department of Information Science, advised by Professor Steven Jackson. Maggie utilizes her academic background in the history of science and professional experience in the technology industry to approach problems of global computing with multiple lenses. Her work lies at the intersection of human computer interaction and science and technology studies. Maggie has ongoing ethnographic fieldwork and archival research in the technology community in Phnom Penh since January 2014. She is supported in 2017-2018 by a National Science Foundation grant to conduct dissertation research in Phnom Penh; this project investigates the ways that contemporary Cambodian technology producers and media creators reconstruct past forms of media, often using Internet platforms, contextualized through a history of modern media technologies (television, radio, cinema) in Cambodia. She has been a foreign language and area studies fellow and a student of the Khmer language and Southeast Asian studies program at Cornell.