Appendix 6 - International Music Council

the demands and rhythm of modern society. In order to become a part of
recent society they have passed a process of so-called improvement,
modernisation and theatricalisation which in fact is a process of
Europeanisation
using traditional culture and music. For example, for
modernisation
of national traditional orchestras, we organized a” national
symphonic orchestra” consisting of all kinds of musical traditional
instruments grouped following the model of the symphony orchestra. As a
result,
we have a disorderly orchestra because we cannot justify the pitches of
strings of instruments. By nature, the strings are always used
to create not
fundamental pitches, but “ornamentalised” pitches created by various kinds
of finger pressure or beating on the different string points.
2.4. Necessary measures
We have considered those negative traits in policies and necessary
measures are taken. Some most important means are as follows:
i. Encouraging and supporting the provincial and national musical
troupes and theatres to perform traditional items
ii. Encouraging to restore, revitalise traditional musical genres in
community where they are created and developed in the past because they are
historical evidence of creative talent of the Vietnamese people.
iii. Enforce and realise the paragraph number 14 of the Law for
protection of intellectual ownership which states that the law protects “all
kinds of folk literature and folk arts”
iv. The radio and TV must have a permanent program to introduce
traditional cultural expessions of ethnic groups.
v. Ratify as soon as possible the UNESCO Convention for safeguarding
the cultural diversity of Humanity
Music Diversity Questionnaire
1. The complementarity or reciprocity between the protection of
musical diversity and that of human rights.
* Cite examples where music expressions or music diversity have been
repressed by direct action of government or actions by others directed by
government, or by others acting to preempt direction by government.
RESPONSE: The people and artists have complete freedom to express their
own conception of culture art excepting
where the content of works destroys
the
solidarity between ethnic groups or damages the independence and the
unity of the country or are against the recent political regime or cause disorder
in society or encourage violence, illegal sexuality, or use dirty language. They
have also the freedom to choose any artistic style or artistic tools and method.
The people have the right to choose and participate in any cultural or artistic
activity, even the ceremonial-religious ones which 30 years ago were forbidden
(National Constitution adopted 1992 defined that “The Vietnamese have the
right to believe or not believe any religion or belief”) excepting if it
causes the above-named prohibited things.
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