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In 2010 I wrote an article in the Finnish Journal of Music Education about the Thang Long Ca tru Club, a traditional music group in Hanoi, Vietnam. This was my first academic publication and the result of several years engagement with the clubs founder Pham Thi Hue, who I first met in 2003. The article (in English) deals with the Hue's and her groups attempts to revive, learn and teach ca trù, a style of traditional chamber music which has been on the verge of disappearing. The issue which contains the article can be found here.
Ca trù and the Thang Long Club also became the subject of my 2010 Master's thesis in ethnomusicology at Goldsmiths, University of London, entitled 'Shifting Mindscapes in the Vietnamese Historical Consciousness and its Impact on Music Revivalism: Ca trù and the Thang Long Ca trù Club'.
Since then I have done further research on the ca trù revival and sustainability within the international research project 'Sustainable Futures for Music Cultures: towards an ecology of musical diversity'. The results from the project is to be published in a edited volume, 'Sustainable Futures for Music Cultures: An Ecological Perspective' (Schippers & Grant) and will include a chapter based on my fieldwork in Vietnam between 2009-2015, 'Ca trù: the Revival and Repositioning of a Vietnamese Music Tradition' (co-written with Håkan Lundström).
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