Nhạc đỏ or literally "Red Music" is the common name of the
revolutionary music (nhạc cách mạng) genre in Vietnam. This genre of music began soon after the beginning of the 20th century during the French colonial period, advocating for independence, socialism and anti-colonialism. Red Music was later strongly promoted across
North Vietnam
North Vietnam, officially the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (DRV; vi, Việt Nam Dân chủ Cộng hòa), was a socialist state supported by the Soviet Union (USSR) and the People's Republic of China (PRC) in Southeast Asia that existed f ...
during the
War
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, to urge Northerners to achieve reunification under the
Workers' Party of North Vietnam and fight against the "American imperialist puppet" in
South Vietnam
South Vietnam, officially the Republic of Vietnam ( vi, Việt Nam Cộng hòa), was a state in Southeast Asia that existed from 1955 to 1975, the period when the southern portion of Vietnam was a member of the Western Bloc during part of th ...
. Other forms of non-traditional, non-Revolutionary music and culture in the North, like
Vietnamese popular music and Western music and culture, were banned, being labelled as "counter-revolutionary", "bourgeois", or "capitalist".
One of the earliest composers of revolutionary songs was
Đinh Nhu (1910–1945).
[''Asian music: journal of the Society for Asian Music'' Volume 35 Page 75 Society for Asian Music 2004 " Đinh Nhu (1910-1945) assumes an important position in the hagiography of Vietnamese revolutionary music. Captured by the French after participating in the Nghệ Tĩnh Soviet uprising in 1930, he organized cultural events in prison including plays and singing."] Trọng Tấn
Trọng Tấn (born 1976) is a Vietnamese singer and vocal music lecturer from Thanh Hóa. He specializes in traditional Vietnamese music and Vietnamese Red music.
Trọng Tấn started participating in arts performance and activities when he wa ...
(born 1976) is considered the young "Hoàng tử nhạc đỏ" (Prince of Red Music).
References
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Vietnamese music