In the chapter of Popular Music, it
focuses much on diasporic music being produced and transcended between nation
states of United States and Vietnam. Those of overseas Vietnamese going back to
the homeland and those of homeland Vietnamese coming to America marked the
spread and influence of music being produced and recognized. Music was highly influenced by exile and
displacement that brought on nostalgia and reminiscences of a lost home that
overseas Vietnamese once had. I think that music itself generates much more
that what it means. It offers a space that one can relate to as represented by
the Vietnamese community and of many others. The lyrics and the melody
themselves are what touches people at the heart if it is sincere and
well-intended. In addition, music above all connects people in mysterious ways.
Music is much an appreciated culture that
without it, the world itself would look bland and boring.
Question: What would the present-today Vietnamese community
be like if the culture of music was never brought on? What other possible ways
are there to create this connection between overseas and homeland Vietnamese if
there had not been the influential music productions?
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