Norton Barley:
Songs For The Spirits
Music And Mediums In Modern Vietnam
University Of Illinois Press (United States), 2009
Hardback, 272 pages
Size: 229x155 mm
ISBN: 9780252033995
ISBN-10: 025203399X
List price: £35.00
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Songs For The Spirits
Examines the Vietnamese practice of communing with spirits through music and performance. By tracing the historical trajectory of traditional music and religion since the early twentieth century, this study offers an intriguing account of the political transformation and modernization of cultural practices over a period of dramatic transition.

