V-pop

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Etymology#

During the early 1970s, the youth music of Saigon, known as nhạc trẻ Sài Gòn or kích động nhạc (“exciting music”), was popular. After 1975, this musical scene was outlawed. In the 1990s, Vietnam’s Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism promoted the term nhạc xanh (literally “green music”) as part of an effort to steer audiences away from nhạc vàng (“yellow music”), the sentimental South Vietnamese pop that remained politically sensitive after reunification. Also in the 1990s, the phrase nhạc nhẹ (soft music) appeared when Vietnam was opening up to the world. Nhạc trẻ (youth music) was used in the early 2000s. The phrase V-pop was created by artists from the North, including Hanoi.

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V-pop

Etymology#