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Recognition sought for amateur music
Twenty-one provinces and cities in the south are
compiling information on don ca tai tu (southern amateur music) that will be
submitted for recognition as an intangible cultural heritage from the United
Nations' Educational, Scientific and Cutural Organisation (UNESCO).
The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism is collecting all of the research
documents, articles and other information on this music genre, which is
performed by local amateur singers and instrumentalists.
The music, which contains lyrics about people's everyday lives, is played on
traditional Vietnamese musical instruments, including the dan tranh (16-chord
zither) and dan co (two-string guitar).
Ca Mau Province's Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism, for example, has
found hundreds of research documents and articles, and trained 130 officials to
conduct surveys of families who have played the music for generations and don ca
tai tu clubs.
In upcoming months, the department will organise seminars on don ca tai tu, and
will also film a documentary about the amateur music clubs.
Source: VietNamNet/Viet Nam News |
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