Vietnamese Diasporic Voices: Exploring Yellow Music in a Liminal Space.
(2022)
author(s): Nguyen Thanh Thuy
published in: VIS - Nordic Journal for Artistic Research
This exposition seeks to identify artistic strategies and challenges in intercultural experimentation with nhạc vàng (yellow music)—a Vietnamese popular music genre. It builds on the author’s experience as a professional musician and đàn tranh player on the Vietnamese traditional music scene, and on her long-term international and intercultural collaborations with performers and composers, as a member of the Vietnamese/Swedish group The Six Tones. In three video essays, the exposition presents the artistic process developed by the participating artists, and an analysis of how these strategies relate to the rule systems of traditional and popular music in Vietnam.
Musical Transformations
(last edited: 2024)
author(s): Stefan Östersjö; Nguyễn Thanh Thủy; Henrik Frisk; David Hebert
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Musical Transformations brings researchers in ethnomusicology and artistic research in music together in order to develop new knowledge and deepened understanding of processes of renewal of musical practices in intercultural and transnational contexts. The artistic research and ethnological fieldwork take shape in two sub-projects in Sweden and Vietnam: First, Vọng Cổ, exploring past and present transformation of music in the south of Vietnam from the Mekong Delta to the theatre stage in Saigon. Second, a pilot study in Sweden for The Ear of Migration, which lays the ground for an extensive piece of research on musical change in contemporary globalized society.