| RARE BOOKS AND COMPACT DISCS
ON VIETNAM |
NEOTRADITIONAL MUSIC IN
VIETNAM
by Miranda Arana
Miranda Arana’s “Neotraditional Music in
Vietnam” is an insightful and highly readable work about the renovated
traditional music that is as widespread throughout Vietnam as it is
controversial. Although this modern form of traditional music draws from
Vietnam’s collective heritage, it is also a fascinating construct of
twentieth-century Vietnam. Arana’s book explores the instruments, genres, musical
training, performance practices, and modern compositional strategies used by
conservatory-trained composers and performers over the past 50 years. With
music as her window, she reveals the complex and often contradictory forces
that helped to shape contemporary Vietnam, including French colonialism,
nationalism, war, socialist revolution, independence under the shadow of
Sino-Soviet influence, and now the global market economy.
“Arana’s presentation brought into the
open a highly contentious topic. [It] received a great deal of articulated
support from many Vietnamese scholars and musicians… While her topic pertains
to Vietnam, it must be seen in the broader context of studies of musical
identity, the politics of representation, the process of musical modernization,
and power and hegemony in presenting a nation’s music.”
Terry E. Miller, Ph.D., Professor of
Ethnomusicology, Kent State University.
Nhac Viet Publications (1999). 152 pages with
musical examples and photographs.
Price: $12. Code: Neo.
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CA TRU: A VIETNAMESE CHAMBER MUSIC
by Barley Norton.
Price: $8. Code: Catru |
CONTEMPORARY ISSUES IN VIETNAMESE MUSIC
Nhac Viet Journal of Vietnamese Music, Vol 6.
Price: $8. Code: Contemp. |
HMONG MUSIC IN VIETNAM
by
Hong Thao (trans. Phong Nguyen)
Price: $8. Code: Hmong |
SEARCHING FOR A NICHE: VIETNAMESE MUSIC AT HOME IN AMERICA
by Phong Nguyen (with
Adelaida Reyes and Patricia Shehan Campbell)
Price: $9. Code: Niche.
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FROM RICE PADDIES AND TEMPLE YARDS: TRADITIONAL MUSIC OF VIETNAM
by Phong Thuyet Nguyen and Patricia Shehan Campbell
Price: $29. Code: Rice.
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DAN TRANH MUSIC OF VIETNAM
This book presents a study of the musical and
social history of the Vietnamese zither dan tranh (also known as dan
thap luc), with a strong focus on the traditional and contemporary genres m
the twentieth century. Analyses of musical and extra-musical features of the
main genres of dan tranh music are presented in conjunction with examinations
of social and cultural factors behind their developments. Even though this is
only the study of the music of one instrument, it covers the history of some of
the most important musical genres in Vietnam in the twentieth century. Readers
will, therefore, find useful information on distinctive features of Vietnamese
traditional music and the history of Vietnamese music in the twentieth century
in general.
by Le Tuan Hung
Price: $29. Code: DanTranh.
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MUSIC FROM THE LOST KINGDOM: HUE, VIETNAM
Price: $12. Code: Kingdom.
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SONG OF THE BANYAN
Folk Music of Vietnam
Price: $12. Code: Banyan
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ECHOES OF ANCESTRAL VOICES
Traditional Music of Vietnam
Price: $15. Code: Echoes
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ETERNAL VOICES
Traditional Vietnamese Music in the
United States
New Alliance Records (2-CD set & Booklet)
Price: $18. Code: Voices
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MUSICAL TRANSFIGURATION
A Journey across Vietnamese Soundscapes
Price: $15. Code: Transfig
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LANDSCAPES OF TIME
Contemporary Sound Art of Vietnam
Price: $15. Code: Landscape
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VIETNAM: MUSIC OF THE
TRUONG SON MOUNTAINS
White Cliffs Media (CD & Booklet)
Price: $12. Code: Truongson
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