{"id":148034,"date":"2025-06-17T09:55:30","date_gmt":"2025-06-17T07:55:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.humboldtforum.org\/?post_type=event&p=148034"},"modified":"2025-07-01T10:06:57","modified_gmt":"2025-07-01T08:06:57","slug":"living-echoes","status":"publish","type":"event","link":"https:\/\/www.humboldtforum.org\/en\/programm\/termin\/talk\/living-echoes-148034\/","title":{"rendered":"Living Echoes"},"content":{"rendered":"
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When Vietnam was a politically divided country<\/span>, two different styles of music developed there. Nhi Duong, a research fellow at the Ethnological Museum, is interested in how Vietnamese music reflects this divided history of the country<\/span>. Her research focuses on the involvement of Vietnamese communities in Berlin. She aims to transform the audio recordings from the Berlin Phonogramm archive into a living, dynamic archive that is supported by the community. It explores how diasporic communities reconnect with their musical heritage.<\/p>\n

As part of the Guest Room<\/em>, Nhi Duong invites you to a listening session where the archive recordings can be heard in public for the first time. She will be working together with L\u01b0u B\u00edch Ng\u1ecdc and other Vietnamese people living in Berlin.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t

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In January 1954, the foreign ministers of the Soviet Union, the United States, Great Britain and France met in Berlin and decided to convene an international conference in Geneva to decide on the restoration of peace in Indochina, including Vietnam. The Geneva Accords established the 17th parallel as a temporary separation between North and South Vietnam. From this point onwards, two different political and social systems developed in the two regions – the North was united in its commitment to building socialism, while the South, with the government in Saigon and the support of the USA, established the Republic of Vietnam. This led to the emergence of two genres: nh\u1ea1c \u0111\u1ecf<\/em> (red music), which represented the North, and nh\u1ea1c v\u00e0ng<\/em> (yellow\/golden music), which represented the South. Two different ideologies are embedded in the lyrics and rhythms, pointing to two very different perceptions of Vietnamese origins, war and fatherland.<\/p>\n

During her CoMuse fellowship, Nhi Duong considers the Vietnamese song recordings held in the museums’ collection not only as a closed collection, but also as historical evidence and resources for the mutual contribution of contemporary Vietnamese communities in Berlin through digital mediation. How do they interact, interpret, improvise and integrate as cultural subjects with the songs and folklore they have produced?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tread more<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tread less<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/read-mode>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n

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