The Western-influenced popular

music of Vietnam Traditional Vietnamese music encompasses a large umbrella of Vietnamese music from antiquity to present times, and can also encompass multiple groups, such as those from Vietnam's ethnic minority tribes. History Traditional Vietnamese music has ...

(''Tân nhạc Việt Nam'', "New music of Vietnam") developed from the 1940s–1980s.

Singers, songwriters and singer-songwriters

The

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and the plight of Vietnamese refugees inspired a collection of musical pieces that have become "classical" anthems among Vietnamese people both in Vietnam and abroad. There are many notable songwriters including the nicknamed three 'fathers' of popular music. They are

Lam Phương Lam Phương, real name Lâm Đình Phùng (March 20, 1937 – December 22, 2020), was a popular Vietnamese songwriter.David Lan Pham ''Two Hamlets in Nam Bo: Memoirs of Life in Vietnam Through Japanese ... '' Page 98 2008 " Phạm Duy, Lam Phư ...

(b. 1937), who is best known for his love songs and ballads, traditional

Cải lương ''Tuồng cải lương'' (, Hán-Nôm: 從改良) often referred to as cải lương (Chữ Hán: 改良), roughly "reformed theater") is a form of modern folk opera in Vietnam. It blends southern Vietnamese folk songs, classical music, '' hát ...

, and Vietnamese patriotic music,

Phạm Duy Phạm Duy (5 October 1921 – 27 January 2013) was one of Vietnam's most prolific songwriters with a musical career that spanned more than seven decades through some of the most turbulent periods of Vietnamese history and with more than one ...

(b. 1921), and

Trịnh Công Sơn Trịnh Công Sơn (February 28, 1939 – April 1, 2001) was a Vietnamese, musician, songwriter, painter and poet. He is widely considered to be Vietnam's best songwriter. His music explores themes of love, loss, and anti-war sentiments during ...

(b. 1939), known as the "Bob Dylan of Vietnam" whose songs were sung by

Khánh Ly Khánh Ly (born as Nguyễn Thị Lệ Mai; 6 March 1945 in Hanoi) is a Vietnamese-American singer. She performed many songs written by Vietnamese composer Trịnh Công Sơn and rose to fame in the 1960s. She married South Vietnam journalist Ng ...

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Popular Music of Vietnam
5 Sep 2010 – ''Popular Music of Vietnam: The Politics of Remembering, the Economics of Forgetting'' by Dale A.Olsen Routledge, New York, London, 2008 Other notable songwriters include

Văn Cao Văn Cao (born Nguyễn Văn Cao, ; 15 November 192310 July 1995) was a Vietnamese composer whose works include '' Tiến Quân Ca'', which became the national anthem of Vietnam. He, along with Phạm Duy and Trịnh Công Sơn, is widely consid ...

(b. 1923), a Vietnamese composer whose works include " Tiến Quân Ca", which became the

national anthem A national anthem is a patriotic musical composition symbolizing and evoking eulogies of the history and traditions of a country or nation. The majority of national anthems are marches or hymns in style. American, Central Asian, and European n ...

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Dương Thụ Dương Thụ (Vân Đình, Ứng Hòa Hanoi, 10 February 1943) is a Vietnamese songwriter. Notable works * ''Ru em bằng tiếng sóng'' * ''Họa mi hót trong mưa'' * ''Hơi thở mùa xuân'' * ''Bay vào ngày xanh'' * ''Cho em một ngà ...

(b. 1943), and Phú Quang (b. 1949), an influential Vietnamese composer primarily known for his love songs and songs about

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Modern Music

The songwriters of the 1970s are now "easy listening" for the middle aged, while the modern TV scene is dominated by Japanese-, Korean- and Cantopop influenced

V-pop V-pop ( vi, nhạc pop Việt Nam, nhạc trẻ or nhạc xanh), an abbreviation for Vietnamese popular music, is a music genre covering Vietnamese pop music from the 1990s to the present day. Etymology During the 1970s, V-pop was limited to ...

shows like ''

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References

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