Encyclopedia of Vietnamese Music

Links

Links

From the Encyclopedia of Vietnamese Music at PBwiki.

Links Sites Music News & Radio General Individual Articles by Topic Theater Traditional & Folk Music

Sites

Music

• Bạch Yến (E&V) - Homepage of singer Bạch Yến. For now, it appears Professor Trần Quang Hải (her husband) is keeping his information there as well.

• E-CaDao.com (V) - The largest online repository of ca dao lyrics.

• Phạm Đức Thành (E&V) - Homepage of musician Phạm Đức Thành.

• Vietnamese Institute of Music (E&V) - A high-quality site with plenty of musical examples and articles. The English translation is a little rough around the edges.

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News & Radio

• New America Media (E) - Ethnic and Youth news in the US.

• Radio Free Asia - Tiếng Việt (V) - Radio Free Asia's Vietnamese station, online.
• Âm Nhạc Cuối Tuần (Weekend Music)
• Chương Trình Nhạc Cổ (Traditional Music Programming)

• Voice of Vietnam (Việt Nam) (E&V) - Site for the "Tiếng Nói Việt Nam" / "Voice of Vietnam" radio station in Việt Nam.

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General

• Đặc Trưng (V) - A kind of Vietnamese literary collection with hundreds of articles, song lyrics, recipes, etc.

• Multilingualbooks.com (E)
• Listing of online Vietnamese radio stations

• The VietNam Pictures Archives at Ibiblio (E) - Mostly a picture and general article archive, but it has an interesting poetry section with clips of artists performing ngâm thơ

• VDict.com (E&V) - Vietnamese dictionary with conversions between Vietnamese, English, and French. Very useful.

• VietSciences (V) - Tremendous amount of information on all areas of academia from genetics to musicology. The forums and Vietnamese music sections are both frequented by Professors Trần Văn Khê & Trần Quang Hải.

• Việt Nam Thư Quán (V) - An "online library" with a lot of goodies, including a lot of old music that is very difficult to find. Mạc Vũ is a regular in their forums in the "Cổ Nhạc" area.

• VNNews.com (E) - Basic cultural information; good for overviews of topics.

• Wikipedia (E&V) - The popular online, user-contributed encyclopedia. The model for the Encyclopedia of Vietnamese Music. Many language options available.

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Individual Articles by Topic

Theater

• A bird's-eye view of Hat boi theatre at VNNews. (local cache) (E)

• Lê Văn Thàn. Vọng Cổ: Một Chút Lý Thuyết Căn Bản và Thực Hành (Vọng Cổ: A Few Notes on Theory and Application) at the Vietnamese Pharmicists Assoc. in the USA. (local cache) (V)

• Phạm Duy. Ca Nhạc Sân Khấu (Theater and Singing Stage) at Kicon. (local cache) (E)

• Vietnamese Opera’s Revival in Little Saigon at New America Media. (E)

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Traditional & Folk Music

• Phạm Duy. Ca Nhạc Phòng (Chamber Music) at Kicon. (local cache) (E)

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