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Musical minorities : the sounds of Hmong ethnicity in Northern Vietnam / Lonán Ó Briain.
LIBRA ML3758.V5 O25 2018
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ó Briain, Lonán, 1983- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Hmong (Asian people)--Vietnam--Music--History and criticism.
- Hmong (Asian people)--Vietnam--Social life and customs.
- Folk music--Vietnam--History and criticism.
- Folk music.
- Hmong (Asian people).
- Manners and customs.
- Music.
- Vietnam.
- Hmong (Asian people)--Music.
- Hmong (Asian people)--Social life and customs.
- Genre:
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Physical Description:
- xxi, 208 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2018]
- Summary:
- Musical Minorities is the first English-language monograph on the performing arts of an ethnic minority in Vietnam. The Hmong have strategically maintained their cultural distance from foreign invaders and encroaching state agencies for almost two centuries. They use cultural heritage as a means of maintaining a resilient community identity, one which is malleable to their everyday needs and to negotiations among themselves and with others in the vicinity. Revolutionary songs, countercultural rock, traditional vocal and instrumental styles, tourist shows, animist and Christian rituals, and light pop from the diaspora illustrate the diversity of their creative outputs. Author Lonán Ó Briain reveals how performing arts shape understandings of ethnicity and nationality in contemporary Vietnam. In an original investigation of the sonic materialization of social identity, the book outlines the full multiplicity of Hmong music-making through a fascinating account of music, minorities, and the state in a post-socialist context. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- 1 On Becoming Vietnamese 17
- 2 Hybridity and the Other in Modern National Music 45
- 3 Hmong Traditional Music and Folklore 76
- 4 Cultural Tourism in Northwestern Vietnam 112
- 5 From Animism to Christianity 133
- 6 Community Reformation in the Diaspora 159
- Conclusion 180.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780190626976
- 0190626976
- 9780190626969
- 0190626968
- OCLC:
- 994287647
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