Music permeates our lives in a multitude of ways and many believe it is a gateway to the supernatural. However, it is much more than that. Music can reveal history, culture, religion, politics, to name just a few. Eric Jones sits down with Andrew Shahriari and Chamni Sripraram to discuss how music in Thailand is a gateway to its cultural traditions.

For scholars of Southeast Asian Studies, the fluidity of gender in Southeast Asia is permeating contemporary scholarship in new ways. Dr. Tamara Loos and Kanjana Thepboriruk sit down with Eric Jones to discuss the impact of Judith Butler's work as a foundation to these rising, novel discussions concerning gender in Southeast Asia.

Thailand has a unique social structure because it is a country of the global South but has never come under colonial rule while emulating Western modernization. The result is a double structure, one part consisting of a precapitalist structure and the other comprising a hierarchy of social classes. On this episode, Dr. Boike Rehbein sits down with Eric Jones, Kanjana Thepboriruk, and John Hartmann to discuss the peculiarities of Thailand's social structure and the resulting inequality.

Dr. Shoua Yang, Professor of Political Science at St. Cloud State University joins Dr. Eric Jones to discuss the impacts of foreign capital on the political and economic development of the Lao People's Democratic Republic. Dr. Yang's insight reveals the benefits and consequences of receiving aid from foreign nations in the process of development.

Today we sit down with Nathanael Sumaktoyo to explore the puzzle of Muslim voting behavior with double minority candidates.

Crossroads would like to thank Agung Pradanta for today's music.

On this episode, Katherine Bowie joins Eric Jones, Kanjana Thepboriruk and Matthew Trew to discuss her new research on the influential monk, Kruba Srivichai and his place in defining modern Thailand.

Crossroads would like to thank Dangdut Cowboys for their musical addition to today's show.

We're joined by Meredith Weiss to uncover the mysteries of "hybrid" electoral authoritarian regimes and find out why they prove so durable.

On this episode, we host ethnomusicologist and Dangdut Cowboys founder Andrew Weintraub and explore his fascinating research on popular music in Southeast Asia

Today Rachel Jacobs shares her innovative interdisciplinary research into social ties and the effects of collectivization on mortality in Democratic Kampuchea.

Join us as Anne Foster discusses her new research on opium and transnational Southeast Asia