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Many who left Vietnam after 1975 desired to hold onto a sense of their history and national identity. It is no wonder then, that music from the war years continued to have a popular following long after the war ended. This genre was so popular in fact that Vietnamese American popular music came to be dubbed as “culture in a bubble.” For over a decade after 1975, songs (both Vietnamese and Western) that were popular in the nightclubs of Saigon during the war, were still being sold in music stores in the U.S., and could be heard in coffee shops and nightclubs in Vietnamese American communities.
Music that evoked nostalgic sentiment was soon accompanied by music with themes of a lost nation, patriotism and the refugee experience. The nationalistic songs evoked images of a glorious past and contained hope of returning to the homeland. Leading this trend was Viet Dzung, a musician from the privileged class in Saigon. Like many who came to the U.S. after 1975, Dzung struggled in the early years of resettlement. But by the early 1980s, his brand of music, called hung ca or “renovation music,” became widespread. It spoke to a politically unified community that despised the Vietnamese communist regime. Categories
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