Music of Vietnam
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Vietnamese music encompasses a broad range of musical traditions and styles from antiquity to the present day, and can also encompass multiple groups, such as those from Vietnam's ethnic minorities.
Performance of ca trù, a traditional genre of chamber music from northern Vietnam, inscribed by UNESCO as an Intangible Cultural Heritage in 2009
A comedy theater in Tonkin during the Revival Lê dynasty
Drum from Sông Đà, Vietnam. Dong Son II culture. Mid-1st millennium BCE. Bronze.
Traditional orchestra performing at the Temple of Literature, Hanoi
Xẩm
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Xẩm or Hát xẩm is a type of Vietnamese folk music which was popular in the Northern region of Vietnam but is nowadays considered an endangered form of traditional music in Vietnam. In the dynastic tim
Blind artists performing xẩm in an old French postcard.