page_title: Music of Vietnam
section_title: Xẩm
hierarchical_section_title: Music of Vietnam / Folk music / Xẩm
caption_attribution_description: English: Blind artist performing xẩm in Vietnam during the French domination.
context_page_description: Traditional Vietnamese music encompasses a large umbrella of Vietnamese music from antiquity to present times, and can also encompass multiple groups, such as those from Vietnam's ethnic minority tribes. Throughout its history, Vietnam has been most heavily influenced by traditional Chinese music, alongside with Korea, Mongolia and Japan.
context_section_description: Xẩm or Hát xẩm (Xẩm singing) is a type of Vietnamese folk music which was popular in the Northern region of Vietnam but is considered nowadays an endangered form of traditional music in Vietnam. In the dynastic time, xẩm was performed by blind artists who wandered from town to town and earned their living by singing in common places.
caption: Blind artists performing xẩm
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