TY - JOUR
T1 - Awakening the soul with the left hand
T2 - narration and healing in Vietnam’s diasporic traditional music
AU - Cannon, Alexander M.
PY - 2021/1/31
Y1 - 2021/1/31
N2 - Vietnamese musicians engage with the concept of tâm hồn, or “soul,” to express an inner experience for external understanding and community building. Following the traumas of the twentieth century, inner experiences of Vietnamese in diaspora became difficult to articulate. To overcome this, musicians have focused on the body as the primary mediator of the soul. They use the left hand in particular to rebuild the soul and make sense of the fractured narratives that tell the stories of Vietnamese survival in diaspora. This article suggests that two musicians, neither of whom are Vietnamese refugees but who bore witness to trauma, play leading roles in this work.
AB - Vietnamese musicians engage with the concept of tâm hồn, or “soul,” to express an inner experience for external understanding and community building. Following the traumas of the twentieth century, inner experiences of Vietnamese in diaspora became difficult to articulate. To overcome this, musicians have focused on the body as the primary mediator of the soul. They use the left hand in particular to rebuild the soul and make sense of the fractured narratives that tell the stories of Vietnamese survival in diaspora. This article suggests that two musicians, neither of whom are Vietnamese refugees but who bore witness to trauma, play leading roles in this work.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85101495060&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.5406/ethnomusicology.65.1.0062
DO - 10.5406/ethnomusicology.65.1.0062
M3 - Article
SN - 0014-1836
VL - 65
SP - 62
EP - 85
JO - Ethnomusicology
JF - Ethnomusicology
IS - 1
ER -