Jazz in Socialist Hà Nội: Improvisations between Worlds

by Lu Quang Minh, Quyn Thin c, Stan Bh Tan-Tangbau

Jazz in Socialist H Nội: Improvisations between Worlds examines the germination and growth of jazz under communist rule-perceived as the "music of the enemy" and "ideologically decadent"-in the Vietnamese capital of H Nội. After disappearing from the scene in 1954 following the end of the First Indochina War, jazz reemerged in the public sphere decades later at the end of the Cold War. Since then, H Nội has established itself...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0367762013
• ISBN13: 9780367762018
• Release Date: March 2022
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 228 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"