Spring Comes to the Liberated Area
1971 · Paredon PAR01009 · New York City, New York
- Artist
- Various Artists
- Title
- Spring Comes to the Liberated Area
- Release
- Vietnam Will Win! Liberation Songs of the Vietnamese People Recorded in Vietnam
- Year
- 1971
- Label
- Paredon # PAR01009
- Format
- LP · Album
- Language
- Vietnamese
- Country
- New York City, New York, USA
- Songwriter
- Xuan Hong
- Genre
- Vietnamese Music · Nhạc đỏ
- Primary theme
- Vietnamese Patriotic
Annotation — North Vietnamese Songs
Another collection of Vietnamese songs (Paredon Records # PAR01009), with such titles as "We Will Liberate the South", "Song of the Liberation Soldiers" and "My Native Land". So, they reflect a degree of patriotism for their homeland, while showing their determination to re-gain control of the country from the foreign invaders. As above, most of these fit into the Nhạc đỏ ("Red Music") genre, taken from Dihavina record label, originally the state label of North Vietnam (Democratic Republic of Vietnam) before reunification in 1975. Musically, these are highly orchestrated arrangement, and like the LP immediately above, have a strong Russian, Chinese influence with regards to revolutionary music. The record is of course aimed at the US market, seeking to display the Vietnamese objective of independence and reunification, and to undermine the US government's portrayal of the Vietnamese struggle - to preserve an independent, non-communist South Vietnam.
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
Lyrics
English: The spring comes again to the forest. The wild bird song is heard in the trees.
Notes
Paredon P-1009, "© 1971 by Paredon Records, PO Box 889, Brooklyn, N Y 11202"; the front cover, subtitled "Liberation songs of the Vietnamese people recorded in Vietnam", shows a column of helmeted soldiers beneath banners reading "Doan Thanh Nien Lao Dong Ho Chi Minh". The 8-page booklet opens with an essay signed Paredon Records explaining the title as a statement that the Vietnamese people will win against their enemies, ending "Vietnam will win! The American people will win!". Barbara Dane's "About the Singers" recalls touring Cuba in 1967 with Irwin Silber and the Artistic Ensemble of the National Liberation Front, and dedicates the record to the musicians and singers of the liberation struggle and to Vietnam Veterans Against the War (Winter Soldier Investigation, Detroit, February 1971; Dewey Canyon III, Washington, April 1971); it names Kim Oanh with the "Voice of Vietnam" vocal…
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Themes
From the release Vietnam Will Win! Liberation Songs of the Vietnamese People Recorded in Vietnam