The bronze drum is a living specimen of Southeast Asian culture and a testimony to the development of Southeast Asian societies for more than 2,000 years. The bronze drum has been inherited dynamically hitherto, and it is still adopted by the Thai royal family and the folk. The diffusion and evolution of bronze drums in Thailand have illustrated the interaction and mutual socialization of Southeast Asia. Current scholarship on bronze drum is mostly confined archaeologically with little consideration of their social-cultural role. Furthermore, the splitting views of bronze-drum studies caused the omission of its essence of glocalization. This paper takes the theory of glocalization, namely bronze drum as the interpenetration of the global and the local results in unique outcomes in a specific geographic occupance, thus, in turn, Southeast Asia can then serve as an international community, and bronze drums spread in this globalized context, while experiencing localization in particular communities. Therefore, this study examines the glocalization of Thai bronze drums through a interdisciplinary research method that draws on multiple lens from the Western, Chinese, and Thai academia. This study devotes to complement aspects of social-cultural role of Thai bronze drum under the context of glocalization. Eventually, in a case of Thailand, the debate that, Southeast Asian civilization is constructed depending on localization meanwhile in the context of globalization, rather than a sub-civilization system.

Authors:
Taixing Li, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand
Haosheng Duan, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand

About the Presenter(s)
Mr. Taixing Li is currently a graduate student in the Southeast Asian Studies Program at the Graduate School of Chulalongkorn University. Born in Kunming, Yunnan Province, China, he received his BA in English and Thai from Yunnan Normal University

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