Screen LibraryMusical minorities : the sounds of Hmong ethnicity in Northern Vietnam /
"Musical Minorities is the first English-language monograph on the performing arts of an ethnic minority in Vietnam. Living primarily in the northern mountains, the Hmong have strategically maintained their cultural distance from foreign invaders and encroaching state agencies for almost two ce...
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Oxford University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | New York, NY : |
| Publication Dates: | [2018] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Summary: |
"Musical Minorities is the first English-language monograph on the performing arts of an ethnic minority in Vietnam. Living primarily in the northern mountains, 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. Case studies of revolutionary songs, countercultural rock, traditional vocal and instrumenta |
| Carrier Form: | xxi, 208 pages : illustrations, music, forms ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-204) and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780190626976 (paperback) : 0190626976 (paperback) 9780190626969 (hardcover) 0190626968 (hardcover) 9780190869366 (Oxford scholarly electronic book) 0190869364 (Oxford scholarly electronic book) 9780190627003 (companion electronic booksite) 019062700X (companion electronic booksite) |
| Index Number: | ML3758 |
| CLC: | J607.333.6 |
| Call Number: | J607.333.6/O111 |
| Contents: |
Introduction -- On becoming Vietnamese -- Hybridity and the Other in modern national music -- Hmong traditional music and folklore -- Cultural tourism in northwestern Vietnam -- From animism to Christianity -- Community reformation in the diaspora -- Conclusion. |