Popular Music of Vietnam
The Politics of Remembering, the Economics of Forgetting
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Add to Cart- ISBN: 978-0-415-98886-5
- Binding: Hardback
- Published by: Routledge
- Publication Date: 24th June 2008
- Pages: 306
About the Book
Based on the author’s research in Ho Chi Minh City, Hanoi, and other urban areas in Vietnam, this study of contemporary Vietnamese popular music explores the ways globalization and free market economics have influenced the music and subcultures of Vietnamese youth, focusing on the conflict between the politics of remembering, nurtured by the Vietnamese Communist government, and the politics of forgetting driven by the capitalist interests of the music industry.
Vietnamese youth at the end of the second and beginning of the third millennium are influenced by the challenges generated by a number of seemingly opposite ideologies and realities, such as "the past" versus "the present," socialism versus capitalism, and cultural traditionalism versus globalization. Vietnam has undergone a radical demographic shift with a very pronounced youth movement, and consequently, Vietnamese popular culture has been radically reshaped by a young population coming of age in the twenty-first century. As Olsen reveals, the way Vietnamese young people cope with these opposing and contrasting forces is often expressed in their active and passive music making.
Table of Contents
List of Figures
Forward by Nguyen T. Phong
Acknowledgments
Chapter One: Prelude
Chapter Two: Cultural and Political Settings for Vietnam’s Popular Music
Chapter Three: Vietnamese Pop Music Stars and the Bumpy Road to Stardom
Chapter Four: Vietnamese Rock, Pop-Rock, and Pop Music Bands
Chapter Five: Vietnamese Songwriters, Social Issues, and Government Persuasion
Chapter Six: Performance Venues for (Mostly) Live Popular Music
Chapter Seven: Disseminating Popular Music: Pop and Rock Music Concerts, Festivals, and Shows
Chapter Eight: Disseminating Popular Music: Audio and Video Recordings
Chapter Nine: Vietnamese Karaoke: Place, Pleasure, Politics, and Profit
Chapter Ten: Conclusion: The Politics and Economics of Popular Music in Vietnam
Notes
Glossary
Bibliography
Index
About the Author(s)
Dale A. Olsen is distinguished Research Professor of Ethnomusicology at Florida State University. His major publications include Music of the Warao of Venezuela: Song People of the Rain Forest; Music of El Dorado: The Ethnomusicology of Ancient South American Cultures; The Chrysanthemum and the Song: Music, Memory, and Identity in the South American Japanese Diaspora; The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music, Vol. 2 (co-edited with Daniel Sheehy); and The Garland Handbook of Latin American Music (co-edited with Daniel Sheehy).