Adaptation of Hmong’s Cultural with Business Tourism : A Case Study of Nonghoi Gao, Nonghoi Mai and Pang Hi village, Mae Ram Sub district, Mae Rim District, Chiang Mai

Abstract

      Adaptation of Hmong’s Cultural with Business Tourism : A Case Study of Nonghoi Gao, Nonghoi Mai and Pang Hi  village, Mae Ram Sub district, Mae Rim District, Chiang Mai is an basic research, using qualitative research methodology. Research findings found that people of this community still have their Hmong lifestyles which are culturally inherited includes Hmong dressing, musical playing, Hmong playing, Hmong new year tradition, Hmong marriage, Hmong singing, and eating tradition. Hmong lifestyles has adaptation from Agricultural society to Cultural tourism.
     Study of knowledge about musical instruments, songs, and performance of Hmong ethnics groups found that there are music instruments such as Keng, Trablai, singing song, Keu Chia, singing song for asking marriage, funeral hymn, lyrics from Keng music instrument with complicated structure, non-rigid rhythms, and audio range of Keng’s song has minimum sound with one higher range. The sound system of Pentatonic, with unclear pattern of rhythms. Rhythm pattern has both a crotchet and two quavers.  
     The application for music culture and performance for introducing ethnic’s tourism in studied area should restore music knowledge by different methods such as promoting music activities for community. The promotion of music into online learning and teaching at the school level, with inserting local curriculum. Learners will understand about sound of music, singing sound, music instruments, and roles and functions. Further, learning to move up and down of the melody, composition of music, music vocabulary of lyrics, using media for learning and studying about ethnic music in order to promote local music in music curriculum. Thus, this is a way to promote learners and people who are interested to have clear examples with empirical evidence to further develop the media by themselves.