"Songs for the Spirits" examines the Vietnamese practice of communing with spirits through music and performance. During rituals dedicated to a pantheon of indigenous spirits, musicians perform an elaborate sequence of songs--a "songscape"--for possessed mediums who carry out ritual actions, distribute blessed gifts to disciples, and dance to the music's infectious rhythms. Condemned by French authorities in the colonial period and prohibited by the Vietnamese Communist Party in the late 1950s, mediumship practices have undergone a strong resurgence since the early 1990s, and they are now...
"Songs for the Spirits" examines the Vietnamese practice of communing with spirits through music and performance. During rituals dedicated to a pan...
Music was integral to the profound cultural, social and political changes that swept the globe in 1968. This collection of essays offers new perspectives on the role that music played in the events of that year, which included protests against the ongoing Vietnam War, the May riots in France and the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. From underground folk music in Japan to antiauthoritarian music in Scandinavia and Germany, Music and Protest in 1968 explores music's key role as a means of socio-political dissent not just in the US and the UK but in Asia, North and South America, Europe...
Music was integral to the profound cultural, social and political changes that swept the globe in 1968. This collection of essays offers new perspecti...
![Songs for the Spirits: Music and Mediums in Modern Vietnam [With DVD] Barley Norton 9780252033995 University of Illinois Press](/9780252033995_songs_for_the_spirits_music_and_mediums_in_modern_vietnam_with_dvd.jpg "Songs for the Spirits: Music and Mediums in Modern Vietnam [With DVD]")
