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Musical Minorities - The Sounds of Hmong Ethnicity in Northern Vietnam (Hardcover) Loot Price: R3,339
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Musical Minorities - The Sounds of Hmong Ethnicity in Northern Vietnam (Hardcover): Lonan O Briain

Musical Minorities - The Sounds of Hmong Ethnicity in Northern Vietnam (Hardcover)

Lonan O Briain

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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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Imprint: Oxford UniversityPress
Country of origin: United States
Release date: April 2018
Authors: Lonan O Briain (Assistant Professor of Music)
Dimensions: 242 x 163 x 18mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 234
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-062696-9
Categories: Books > Arts & Architecture > Music > Theory of music & musicology > General
Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Ethnic studies > Black studies
Books > Arts & Architecture > Music > Contemporary popular music > Rock & pop > World music
Books > Music > Contemporary popular music > Rock & pop > World music
Books > Music > Theory of music & musicology > General
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LSN: 0-19-062696-8
Barcode: 9780190626969

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