or literally Red Music is the common name of the revolutionary music () genre in Vietnam. Red Music was formed during the communist Việt Minh and the

First Indochina War The First Indochina War (generally known as the Indochina War in France, and as the Anti-French Resistance War in Vietnam, and alternatively internationally as the French-Indochina War) was fought between French Fourth Republic, France and Việ ...

and later strongly promoted across communist

North Vietnam North Vietnam, officially the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (DRV; ; VNDCCH), was a country in Southeast Asia from 1945 to 1976, with sovereignty fully recognized in 1954 Geneva Conference, 1954. A member of the communist Eastern Bloc, it o ...

during the

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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 (RVN; , VNCH), was a country in Southeast Asia that existed from 1955 to 1975. It first garnered Diplomatic recognition, international recognition in 1949 as the State of Vietnam within the ...

. 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 (born 1976) is considered the young "" (Prince of Red Music).

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