Jason Gibbs
Biographical Info:
Jason Gibbs is a composer, performer and researcher of music. He took his first trip to Vietnam in 1993 and has returned annually ever since. His present research concerns the contemporary popular songs of Vietnam as well as effects of Western music upon Vietnamese music. Jason can be reached at jasong@sfpl.lib.ca.us
Jason Gibbs's Recent Contributions
Tan Da: Vietnam's First Modern Poet
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In Vietnam, poetry is truly part of popular culture. Daily newspapers print poems, poetry books are prominently displayed in bookstores and there are radio and television shows of and about poetry.
Destinations:
Hanoi |
Vietnam
Topics:
Culture |
Literature |
Art
Reform and Tradition in Early Vietnamese Popular Song
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Among young, urban Vietnamese of the 1930s, the clarion call was for reform and renovation in all areas of life. In the midst of colonial domination, a new Vietnamese national consciousness was...
Destinations:
Hanoi |
Vietnam
Topics:
Culture |
Music
Nhac Tien Chien: The Origins of Vietnamese Popular Song
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By the 19th century Vietnam found itself forcibly and irrevocably confronted with the Western world. As this foreign presence intensified, the elite, ruling and mandarin classes insularly maintained a...
