Champa music has affirmed its remarkable position in the central city ofDa Nang’s tourism sector thanks to the city’s unique culturalidentities, according to the online Danang Today.
Like Ninh Thuanand Quang Nam provinces, Da Nang has preserved many impressive Champacultural vestiges, including music and architectural and archaeologicalworks.
Director of the Da Nang Museum of Cham Sculpture VoVan Thang said that a book entitled “Champa Music - the Interconnectionbetween Champa and Vietnamese”, which was written by musician Tran Hongafter many years of research into the Champa culture, was published inlate 2013. This is the largest ever research work on Champa music.
Like the ethnic minority people in the Central Highlands, the Champapeople regard music as an art form of the Gods and a means ofcommunication between deities and human beings.
Music isalways performed in many ceremonies for the Gods. Champa music sharessimilarities in the use of musical instruments with that of the ethnicminorities in the Central Highlands. Many Vietnamese-Champa folk songsfeature surprisingly similar rhythms, musical scales and melodies.
According to Hong, a wide variety of musical instruments, folksongs and flash mob performances play a vital role in diversifying DaNang’s musical treasures and those of Vietnam as a whole.
In2013, the Da Nang tourism sector maintained stable growth, welcomingover 743,000 foreign tourists. The number of domestic holidaymakersexceeded 2.3 million, up 17 percent.
The city in 2014 willcontinue to build new tourist products as one of its measures to developits smokeless industry in the context that the economy is forecast torecover in 2014 with the improvement of local businesses.-VNA
Like Ninh Thuanand Quang Nam provinces, Da Nang has preserved many impressive Champacultural vestiges, including music and architectural and archaeologicalworks.
Director of the Da Nang Museum of Cham Sculpture VoVan Thang said that a book entitled “Champa Music - the Interconnectionbetween Champa and Vietnamese”, which was written by musician Tran Hongafter many years of research into the Champa culture, was published inlate 2013. This is the largest ever research work on Champa music.
Like the ethnic minority people in the Central Highlands, the Champapeople regard music as an art form of the Gods and a means ofcommunication between deities and human beings.
Music isalways performed in many ceremonies for the Gods. Champa music sharessimilarities in the use of musical instruments with that of the ethnicminorities in the Central Highlands. Many Vietnamese-Champa folk songsfeature surprisingly similar rhythms, musical scales and melodies.
According to Hong, a wide variety of musical instruments, folksongs and flash mob performances play a vital role in diversifying DaNang’s musical treasures and those of Vietnam as a whole.
In2013, the Da Nang tourism sector maintained stable growth, welcomingover 743,000 foreign tourists. The number of domestic holidaymakersexceeded 2.3 million, up 17 percent.
The city in 2014 willcontinue to build new tourist products as one of its measures to developits smokeless industry in the context that the economy is forecast torecover in 2014 with the improvement of local businesses.-VNA
