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Songs for Life (เพลงเพื่อชีวิต)
Stylistic origins	Blues rock • Country • Folk • Luk thung • Hard rock • Psychedelic rock • Reggae • Soft rock • Traditional thai music
Cultural origins	Mid 1970s, Thailand
Typical instruments	acoustic guitar • bass guitar • electric guitars • keyboard • harmonica • percussion • violin • drums • piano • thai instruments • traditional instrument
Mainstream popularity	High during the early 1980s in Thailand and bands like Caravan were commercially successful later widespread since then in thailand
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Songs for Life or Phleng phuea chiwit (Thai: เพลงเพื่อชีวิต) is a popular sub-genre of Thai rock music, with a protest theme mainly centred around the hardship of working class people. Phleng pheua chiwit typically incorporates elements of Western folk and rock, as well as Thai folk ballads, more rhythmic Thai styles such as samcha, molam and lukthung, and occasionally elements of Thai classical music as well. More recently, elements of reggae, ska and Latin music have found their way into the genre as well. As for the instrumentation, early phleng pheua chiwit was generally in a more folk style, with acoustic instruments, while later versions often more rock-style arrangements, with electric guitars, bass and drums. Many artists also use Thai instruments such as the phin, wut, khluay, and saw. and Inspired by Bob Dylan, Bob Marley, Neil Young.