Music is a widely used method for others to express their
interests, ideas, values, and experiences. For the Vietnamese community in the
homeland and the overseas, this fact is no exception, even if restrictions do
not allow transnational exchanges beyond a certain degree. Chapter 2 “Popular
Music: Sounds of Home Resistance and Change” from Kieu-Linh Valverde’s Transnationalizing Viet Nam specifically
focuses on the narratives and experiences that result in a new hybrid culture.
According to Valverde, overseas Vietnamese of the first wave in 1975 produced a
new sound influenced by experiences of exile and displacement, in which the
“popular music incorporates a specific blend of nostalgia that appeals to
members of disaporic communities and residents of Viet Nam” (Valverde 30).
Expressions and the sound of this music do not only reflect the experiences of
exile and displace, but rather, I believe that the nostalgia comes from centuries
of colonial rule of Vietnam by one country and then to another, including France
and China. Ripped apart by imperialism and colonialism, Vietnamese citizens
still managed to keep their nation, culture, and community collectivity intact.
However, due to the disparities of the Vietnam War, a new hybrid culture
emerged as a result of the separation from home and the lost of the intactness
of their homeland that they once had.
Question: Does this new hybrid culture of Vietnamese
refugees have impacts on the next future generations of the overseas Vietnamese
disaporas?
Works Cited:
Valverde, Kieu-Linh Caroline. "Popular
Music: Sounds of Home Resistance and Change." Transnationalizing Viet
Nam: Community, Culture, and Politics in the Diaspora. Philadelphia: Temple
UP, 2012. Print.
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