Music

Thailand continues to share cultural ties with the two major Asian civilizational hubs, China and India. Despite the fact that Western powers never invaded Thailand, pop music and other genres of European and American music have gained enormous popularity. Luk thung and mor lam, which have a lot of similarities to Lao music, are the two most well-known traditional music genres in Thailand. Aside from the majority of the Thai population, there are also small populations of Laotians, Lawa, Hmong, Akha, Mien, Lisu, Karen, and Lahu peoples.

The Thai people have a long history of creating their own musical instruments and adapting other people's designs for their own purposes. In reality, there are a number of musical instruments that the Thai people are believed to have invented before they encountered Indian culture, which was already well-established in Southeast Asia before the Indian people went there. Later, as the Thai people were creating their kingdoms, they integrated this musical culture into their own when they came into contact with Indian culture, notably with Indian instruments that the Mon and Khmer civilizations had initially adopted.