Purple music

Purple music () is a kind of music that has been very much at the center of Vietnamese public life from the time of its first strong emergence in the country in the late 1930s up to the present day. It is known as the origin of Vietnamese popular music. Harmonious, sentimental and melancholy, many romantic songs of purple music have become regarded as national treasures and are still performed widely.
History
Songs of Purple Music carry with them an air of nostalgia, perhaps nostalgia for an era when Vietnam was still unified, the era preceding nearly 20 years of civil war. After 1954, the country was split into two very different regimes, the communist Socialist Republic of Vietnam or North Vietnam, and the Republic of Vietnam or South Vietnam. At that time, some purple music composers went South, while others remained in the North. Most of the Northerners either ceased composing or followed the dictates of the regime for writing songs to mobilize the masses and strengthen the revolution. Southerners continued to write romantic songs. Since the North's victory resulting in Vietnam's reunification in 1975, the country's culture has continued to be divided between resident and overseas communities. As nearly all music and literature of a romantic or sentimental basis was banned by the communist regime, many of Vietnam's creative minds left the country in 1975 for Western countries like the United States, Australia, and France. Although differences between these two communities continue until this time, purple music is one of the few popular song genres that can be heard on the stage of both Vietnam and among the overseas community.
Although Vietnamese music this period has gone through many movements : Patriotic songs, scout songs, happy songs, folk songs... the longest lasting movement is still love song movement. That is the music movement with greatest composers like Van Cao, Pham Duy, Le Thuong... and with ever-lasting love songs like. Amongst the best-known ones are I Come to See You One Rainy Afternoon (Em den tham anh mot chieu mua) by To Vu ; Send the Wind to Blow Away the Clouds (Gui gio cho may ngan bay), Seductive Autumn (Thu quyen ru), Leaves Falling in the Afternoon (La do muon chieu), A Letter (La thu), Plum Pack and Pansy Petal (Mot goi nho kho, mot canh pang-xe) by Doan Chuan ; Resonance (Du am) by Nguyen Van Ty ; The Girl Next Door (Co lang gieng) by Hoang Quy ; Drop of Autumn Rain (Giot mua thu) and The Boat isn't Docking (Con thuyen khong ben) by Dang The Phong.
Famous musicians
Nguyen Xuan Khoat
Le Thuong
Van Cao
Dang The Phong
Pham Duy
Myosotis band
Tricea band
Dong Vong band
Student Association band
Thang Long band
Hoang Trong
Van Phung
Pham Manh Cuong
Doan Chuan
Dang The Phong
Nguyen Van Ty
Tran Hoan
Hoang Giac
Le Mong Nguyen
To Hai
Nguyen Van Thuong
To Vu
Viet Lang
Pham Dinh Chuong
Nguyen Van Dong
Cung Tien
Nguyen Dinh Toan
Tieng To Dong band
Hoang Quy
Song Ngoc
Hoai Linh
Famous singers
Ngoc Bao
Tam Van
Thai Hang
Thai Thanh
Thuong Huyen
Le Thu
Khanh Ly
Duy Trac
Si Phu
Ha Thanh
Hoang Oanh
Anh Ngoc
Khanh Ly
Le Thu
Le Thanh
Kim Tuoc
Mai Huong
Quynh Giao
Tuan Ngoc
Khanh Ha
Quoc Anh
Thuy Duong
Tam Doan
Tran Thai Hoa
Ngoc Ha
Mai Hoa
Lan Ngoc
Moc Lan
Chau Ha
Nhat Bang
Nhu Thuy
Y Lan
Trung Duc
Cao Minh
Ngoc Lan
Anh Tuyet
Duc Tuan
Thanh Long
AC&M band
Nam Dong Ke band
Related pages
Nhac do
Nhac vang
References
NOTES TOWARD A SOCIAL HISTORY OF VIETNAMESE MUSIC IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY
Tan nhac nhung nam dau - Pham Duy
Nhac tim : Khoi dau cua ca khuc pho thong Viet Nam - Jason Gibbs
Nhac tim tren trang Hoi Nhac si Viet Nam
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