Popular Music of Vietnam: The Politics of Remembering, the Economics of Forgetting

by Dale A. Olsen

Based on the author's research in Ho Chi Minh City, Hanoi, and other urban areas in Vietnam, this study of contemporary Vietnamese popular music explores the ways globalization and free market economics have influenced the music and subcultures of Vietnamese youth, focusing on the conflict between the politics of remembering, nurtured by the Vietnamese Communist government, and the politics of forgetting driven by the capitalist interests of the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415883970
• ISBN13: 9780415883979
• Release Date: June 2008
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 290 Pages
• Weight: 0.91 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"