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Panel proposal EUROSEAS - 2010

Culture Wars: Contemporary Art, Music and Media in Hanoi, Vietnam
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It has become common to view contemporary cultural practices in Vietnam today through the lens of globalization. The influx of tourism and expatriate consumers combined with the increase in foreign television shows, musical genres and so-called “western” art practices, has given the perspective that Vietnamese traditional culture is under siege or at least rapidly disappearing. This panel will look at cases where the meeting between conventional cultural practice, popular culture and art making and “outside” forces has produced innovative experimental forms of expression. Rather than seeing “Vietnamese” culture as more diluted and less authentic, we will consider its enrichment, diversity and transformation. Other issues discussed will be the role of the State in negotiating art practices and the popular debates in the media over high and low art, tradition and modernity, East and West.

Papers include:

Face-off Over the City: Bui Xuan Phai takes on Do Tuan Anh
Lisa Drummond, York University and Natalia Kraevskaia, University of Moscow
“I am cultures:” Hybridity and Transnationality in Ea Sola’s Performance Praxis
Rivka Eisner, National University of Singapore
Performance, Performing and Performative Art: Exhibitionism or Exhibiting What?
Nora Taylor, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Learning Quan ho Folk Song in an Age of “Authenticity”
Lauren Meeker, SUNY – New Paltz
Performing Contemporary Music in Hanoi: The Making of the Ethnographic Film, "Hanoi Eclipse: The Music of Dai Lam Linh"
Barley Norton, Goldsmiths College, University of London

Panel Presenter contacts:

Lisa Drummond
Dept. of Geography
N431 Ross Building
York University
4700 Keele Street
Toronto, Ontario
Canada M3J 1P3

Drummond@yorku.ca

Rivka Eisner
Langelandsgade 217
DK-8200
Aarhus N
Denmark

Email: rivkasyd@gmail.com

Natalia Kraevskaia
University of Moscow
30 Hang Bong Street
Hanoi, Vietnam

nkraevskaia@yandex.ru

Lauren Meeker, State University of New York, New Paltz
Dept. of Anthropology WSB124
SUNY-New Paltz
1 Hawk Drive
New Paltz, NY 12561

meekerl@newpaltz.edu

Barley Norton
Dept. of Music
Goldsmiths College
University of London
New Cross
London SE14 6NW
UK

b.norton@gold.ac.uk

Nora Taylor,
Dept. of Art History
School of the Art Institute of Chicago
112 S. Michigan Ave
Chicago IL 60603

Ntaylo1@saic.edu