Viet Nam : traditions of the South = traditions du Sud.

Format:

Sound recording

Contributor:

Alexander Street Press.

Series:

Smithsonian Global Sound.

Musical anthology of the Orient

Language:

Vietnamese

Subjects (All):

Folk music--Vietnam, Southern.

Folk music.

Southern Vietnam.

Genre:

Folk music.

Sound recordings.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (49 minutes).

Place of Publication:

Washington, DC : Smithsonian Folkways Recordings/Audivis-UNESCO, 1996.

Language Note:

Vocal works sung in Vietnamese.

Contents:

Ritual and religious music: Bai trong lay and thet (2:57) ; Buddhist chants and prayers (4:35) ; Bai ha (5:00) ; Respectful invitation to the Goddess of the West (8:43) ; Xang Xê (4:34)

Entertainment music and music of the "modernized" theatre: Rao nam, hoi ai-oan (3:35) ; Binh ban (3:51) ; The wind blows and bends the weeping willow (4:10) ; The four generations (4:16) ; The beautiful tây thi (3:40) ; Longing for the past (4:14).

Participant:

Various performers.

Notes:

Includes PDF of liner notes in English with French translation.

Streaming audio files.

Title from resource description page (viewed March 03, 2016).

Other Format:

Original cat. no.: UNES08070

OCLC:

950026169

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.