Chant pour Nguyen Van Troi [Song for Nguyen Van Troi]
1972 · Combat pour la Paix 1001 · France
- Artist
- Francesca Solleville
- Title
- Chant pour Nguyen Van Troi [Song for Nguyen Van Troi]
- Release
- Poèmes vietnamiens
- Year
- 1972
- Label
- Combat pour la Paix # 1001
- Format
- LP · Album
- Language
- French
- Country
- France
- Songwriter
- Le Anh Xuan
- Genre
- Chanson · Chanson
- Primary theme
- Peace, Protest & Anti-War
Annotation — Peace, Protest, & Anti-War Songs
Chanson artist, born on 2 March 1932 in Périgueux, France.. As the title displays, this was a Vietnam War themed-LP, with 12 songs. The title track "Être mère au Vietnam ("Being a mother in Vietnam") makes a comparison between mothers in Vietnam, "teaching them to go down in the trenches", and the rest of the world, "teaching children to pick flowers", a startling comparison, highlighting the suffering of those living through an ongoing conflict. Another song to highlight on this album is the song "Le sud" ("The South") which looks at the North Vietnam perspective of freeing the south from the US, "be proud in the front line against the US, you hold on, land of the South".
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
Annotation — European Songs
Chanson artist, born on 2 March 1932 in Périgueux, France. As the title displays, this was a Vietnam War themed-LP, with 12 songs. The title track "Être mère au Vietnam ("Being a mother in Vietnam") makes a comparison between mothers in Vietnam, "teaching them to go down in the trenches", and the rest of the world, "teaching children to pick flowers", a startling comparison, highlighting the suffering of those living through an ongoing conflict. Another song to highlight on this album is the song "Le sud" ("The South") which looks at the North Vietnam perspective of freeing the south from the US, "be proud in the front line against the US, you hold on, land of the South".
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
About the artist
born on 2 March 1932 in Périgueux, France