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Tradition, still remains: sustainability through ruin in Vietnamese music for diversion.
- Source :
- Ethnomusicology Forum; 2016, Vol. 25 Issue 2, p146-171, 26p
- Publication Year :
- 2016
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Abstract
- Performing traditional music in Vietnam presents for many a decisive way to establish oneself as part of history, part of the present and a strategist of future cultural function. In this article, I describe how musicians in southern Vietnam deploy the musical ruin, a sound object that has undergone devastating and alienating alteration against which a musician reacts in order to perform innovative music and educate others, in order to limit the development of and better sustain đờn ca tài tử, a genre of traditional music. The invocation of the musical ruin is not specific to the Vietnamese case but emerges as a creative impetus at particular historical moments to maintain one's voice in increasingly crowded spheres of musical practice. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- MUSIC
CULTURAL policy
MUSICIANS
CREATIVE ability
CULTURE
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 17411912
- Volume :
- 25
- Issue :
- 2
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Ethnomusicology Forum
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 118271096
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1080/17411912.2016.1175313