Year: 2026
Type: article
Abstract: In 1971, the Democratic Republic of Vietnam convicted musicians for playing “yellow music,” or decadent, romantic music. The government singled out the convicted men as idlers whose activities discouraged other young people from productive activity in support of the ongoing war. The banned music drew from songs popular before the arrival of the communist government in Hà Nội in 1954. The trial and sentencing of these men belied the continued popularity of music deemed by the government to be backward and counterrevolutionary.
Source: Journal of Vietnamese Studies
Author: Jason Gibbs
Language: English
Subfield: Sociology and Political Science
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W7161593720
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