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Seeding the Tradition - Musical Creativity in Southern Vietnam (Paperback)
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Seeding the Tradition - Musical Creativity in Southern Vietnam (Paperback)
Series: Music / Culture
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Loot Price R586
Discovery Miles 5 860
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For artists, creativity plays a powerful role in understanding,
confronting, and negotiating the crises of the present. Seeding the
Tradition explores conflicting creativities in traditional music in
Ho Chi Minh City, the Mekong Delta, and the Vietnamese diaspora,
and how they influence contemporary southern Vietnamese culture.
The book centers on the ways in which musicians of don ca tai tu, a
"music for diversion," practice creativity or sang tao in early
21st-century southern Vietnam. These musicians draw from
long-standing theories of primarily Daoist creation while adopting
strategically from and also reacting to a western neo-liberal model
of creativity focused primarily - although not exclusively - on the
individual genius. They play with metaphors of growth, development,
and ruin to not only maintain their tradition but keep it vibrant
in the rapidly-shifting context of modern Vietnam. With
ethnographic descriptions of zither lessons in Ho Chi Minh City,
outdoor music cafes in Can Tho, and television programs in Dong
Thap, Seeding the Tradition offers a rich description of southern
Vietnamese sang tao and suggests revised approaches to studying
creativity in contemporary ethnomusicology.
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