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Musical Minorities - The Sounds of Hmong Ethnicity in Northern Vietnam (Paperback)
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Musical Minorities - The Sounds of Hmong Ethnicity in Northern Vietnam (Paperback)
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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, Lonan O
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.
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