Capitalist Music Brings Jail
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 19225847 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jason Gibbs (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2026 |
| Volume | 21 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 1-42 |
| Publication date | 2026-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Vietnamese Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1559-372X • E-ISSN: 1559-3738 |
| Publisher | University of California Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1525/vs.2026.21.2.1 |
| OpenAlex | W7161593720 |
| Language | EN |
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
Communism · Democracy · Government (linguistics) · Popularity · Romance · Communism, Protests, Social Movements · Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies · Vietnamese History and Culture Studies
| Highly cited | No |
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