Alexander M Cannon

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Seeding the Tradition: Musical Creativity in Southern VietnamPaperback, 14 June 2022

Seeding the Tradition: Musical Creativity in Southern Vietnam
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Part of Series
Music / Culture
Print Length
320 pages
Language
English
Publisher
Wesleyan University Press
Date Published
14 Jun 2022
ISBN-10
0819580805
ISBN-13
9780819580801

Description

Critically evaluates assumptions of creativity by exploring the dynamism of southern Vietnamese traditional music

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 Hõ Chí 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 đón ca tài tù, a "music for diversion," practice creativity or sáng tạo 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 Hõ Chi Minh City, outdoor music cafes in Cãn Thơ, and television programs in Đõng Tháp, Seeding the Tradition offers a rich description of southern Vietnamese sáng tạo and suggests revised approaches to studying creativity in contemporary ethnomusicology.

Product Details

Author:
Alexander M Cannon
Book Format:
Paperback
Country of Origin:
US
Date Published:
14 June 2022
Dimensions:
22.61 x 15.24 x 2.21 cm
ISBN-10:
0819580805
ISBN-13:
9780819580801
Language:
English
Location:
Middletown, CT
Pages:
320
Weight:
453.59 gm

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