Jennifer Nguyen Bernal
Professor Valverde
ASA 114
In the reading "Popular Music: Sounds of Home resistance and change" by Kieu-Linh, Valverde explains the change in Vietnamese music due to less censorship, the voices behind the music, and the fandom behind popular Vietnamese music like Paris by night. Popular music has painted a different world for fans who are working and middle class from all around the world, including Vietnam, and the Vietnamese diaspora in America. The popularity of Vietnamese music allowed a share of cultures, censorship from the Vietnamese government, and piracy of music videos. The Vietnamese diaspora made their music accessible abroad that it reached Vietnam. However, the Vietnamese government and anti-communists from the Vietnamese community censor and restrict their music from spreading and being created. I was surprised that the Vietnamese diaspora was able to create music that even Vietnam wanted to hear this different form of music that was created and sadly censor from the Vietnamese government. Due to this, music production like Paris by night was bootlegged in Vietnam so that fans can have access to the music. She explains the issues that hybrid culture like the music from the Vietnamese diaspora face when introduced to places like Vietnam, which censored from the Vietnamese in Vietnam. Even though the government edited it, it was surprising that they found a way to have access to music. The music in the Vietnamese diaspora in America was when Vietnamese came there in 1975. I never thought about how music affects Vietnamese and the Vietnamese diaspora in America. Vietnamese music in the Vietnamese community in America began as a hope to preserve the culture before the war. There was a company called Thuy Nga Production that created popular Vietnamese diasporic music that has a global presence, now known as Paris by night. Vietnamese music before the war was able to be recreated in the Vietnamese diaspora in America. The Vietnamese diasporic music uses the traditional base of Vietnamese music, which attracted fans at a global level despite censorship and used any means to get their hands on the music like the black market. Valverde explains that the Vietnamese diaspora and Vietnam will continue to work together to create new music genres, songs, and create a unique experience in the music.
How did Paris by night be first introduced to Vietnamese when Vietnam controll the censoring?
How is Paris by night becoming popular in countries like Korea?
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