Bangkok After Dark with Ben Tausig

Dr. Ben Tausig joins Dr. Stanley Arnold and Dr. Taylor Atkins to discuss his new book “Bangkok After Dark.” They discuss the emerging culture of nightlife in the city of Bangkok during the Vietnam War. The discussion examines cultural contact between Thais and the US Military through through the life of Maurice Rocco, a gay African American Pianist, who left behind fame in America for a second act in Thailand, eventually with a residency in the pretigious Bamboo Bar in Bangkok.

Dr. Ben Tausig is an Associate Professor at Stony Brooke University. He studies music and anthropology in Southeast Asia. To purchase his book: https://www.dukeupress.edu/bangkok-after-dark

Dr. Stanley Arnold is Associate Professor of History at Northern Illinois University. His research examines the civil rights movement in the United States from 1920 to 1970 (exclusive of the South) and the intersection of race and sports in the United States.

Dr. E. Taylor Atkins is Associate Professor of History at Northern Illinois University. His current project examines th historiography of the use of "fascism" to describe Japan’s 1930s-40s state and religious cosmopolitanism in Northeast Asia.

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