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Musical Minorities
Lonán Ó Briain PhD
其他書名
The Sounds of Hmong Ethnicity in Northern Vietnam
出版
Oxford University Press
, 2018-02-01
主題
Music / Ethnomusicology
Music / Ethnic
Music / Genres & Styles / Folk & Traditional
Music / Instruction & Study / Theory
ISBN
0190626984
9780190626983
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=7-5IDwAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
EBook
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註釋
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 instrumental styles, tourist shows, animist and Christian rituals, and light pop from the diaspora illustrate the diversity of their creative outputs. This groundbreaking study reveals how performing arts shape understandings of ethnicity and nationality in contemporary Vietnam. Based on three years of fieldwork, Lonán Ó Briain traces the circulation of organized sounds that contribute to the adaptive capacities of this diverse social group. 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.