Songs for the Spirits:

UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESSISBN: 9780252033995

Music and Mediums in Modern Vietnam

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By Barley Norton
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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
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''This book is at once reflexive, accessible, and consistently theorized. Barley Norton is closely attentive to the political life of performance and to the lived reality of rituals in a shifting socialist landscape. His writing is vivid and exacting, and the book's DVD invites a process of reading, watching, and listening that is wonderfully rewarding.'' Deborah Wong, author of Speak It Louder: Asian Americans Making Music ''Barley Norton's foundational study provides an indispensable guide to the music that animates Vietnamese mediumship. Choice anecdotes and recordings introduce individual mediums and musicians, demonstrate the musicality of religious experience, and reveal how ritual music is learned, performed, and transformed in Vietnam.'' Philip Taylor, editor of Modernity and Re-enchantment: Religion in Post-revolutionary Vietnam ''...his field work is not presented in a dry academic way but rather is laced with anecdotes and stories that give the reader the impression that this is a researcher who really enjoys his job...The book is comprehensive in its analysis of cultural practices such as len dong, tracing the history of rituals, music and religion in Vietnam back to the early 20th century...The inclusion of a DVD with video clips of mediums performing the spirit ceremonies and audio clips of the music played at the ceremonies makes turns an interesting book into a fascinating multimedia experience.'' John Clewley, Songlines, July 2009

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