Before the Vietnam War, Mai Nguyen was an acclaimed music professor at the Saigon National Conservatory. Students came from afar to seek out her expertise with the Vietnamese zither, a harp-like ...
The classroom at the Vietnam National Academy of Music could be almost any place in the world where piano is taught. The furniture and lighting are institutional. The walls have soundproofing. There ...
No longer purely a playground for famous singers, the Vietnamese music scene has expanded to develop an entire related ...
That an aspiring Vietnamese musician in this day and age can study jazz at conservatoire level in Hanoi, or jam three hundred and sixty-five days a year in a jazz club in the Vietnamese capital, is ...
In Vietnam today, patriotic odes to the glory of the revolution may still be heard at Communist Party meetings, but millions of ordinary Vietnamese opt for the modern pop songs being belted out on CDs ...
Visitors to Thai Vi Temple in Ninh Binh are often captivated by the graceful presence of Chu Van Thim, the 86-year-old temple keeper who once appeared in the film The Boat of Fate. Beyond admiring the ...
Vietnamese band Lolotica perform at the Grindcore không em? show at La Canalla. Credit: Behind The Stages via Saigon Metalhead Subscribe for ads-free reading Vietnamese rocker Trung Thanh Sago makes a ...
Vietnam's music industry is a cultural tapestry with a rich array of genres and traditions. But as we venture deeper into the 21st Century, the question arises: How can this burgeoning industry ...