Appendix 6 - International Music Council

RESPONSE: No such requirements we have.
• Education: Are there regulations requiring education in local music
tradition or in a diversity of musical genres
RESPONSE: Besides the common-official part of primary and secondary
schools’ music curriculum, an additional part consisting of knowledge of local-
ethnic music is obligatory. The content
of this part will be chosen by the
Teachers-Committee
of each school and it can include some non-formal
activities.
The local music is also included in the curriculum of the High College of
Arts in each province as official content.
• Subsidy:
Are there regulations that require that government subsidy
should be given to or withheld from specific musical genres, or to a
diversiy of musiccl genres? Are there regulations that require that
government subsidy can only be given to a country’s own citizens? Are
there regulations that require that all applicants for subsidy must be
considered equally, whether citizens or foreigners? Or are there variants
on any of above?
RESPONSE: Subsidy for preservation and promotion of folk culture generally
and for folk arts such as music, dance, etc…particularly is one of the
substantial key policies of Vietnam’s Government.
It was created on the bases
of awareness that, the Vietnamese traditional culture is a multicolor
diversity crystalised through many thousands of years of creative
activities of all ethnic groups (Extract from “Declaration and Decision of
Fifth
Meeting of CP’s Standing and Executive Boards adopted on 10/1998”).
The subsidy was used for activities
of some main aspects as follows:
i. There was a National Researching Program for “Collection,
Preservation and Promotion of traditional intangible
heritage of 54 ethnic
groups”.
The program is operating from 1998 until 2010. The Vietnam Institute
of Culture and Arts Studies (VICAS) was appointed to be the key body
of
program with an annual subsidy around 200,000 USD (equivalent).
ii. Since 1993 the Association of Vietnamese
Folklorists received
annually
subsidy around 100,000 USD (equivalent) for the same aim.
iii. Special funding of around 250,000 USD (equivalent) was assigned
annually
for collecting and preserving traditional music and installing the
collected
materials in DATABANK.
iv. Special funding for National Program “Collection, Preservation,
Publishing
all Epics of minorities living in the Highland of Central Vietnam.” The
Epics always are performed by using the traditional musical tunes of each
ethnic group. The Research Institute of Folklore from the National Academy of
Social and Human Sciences was appointed as the key body for realising the
Program with the total subsidy around 1,500,000 USD (equivalent) in the term
of 1995-2005 years.
v. Funding for all activities of Minorities Regional Music and
Dance
troupes and Minorities Regional High Schools of Music and Dance in three
minorities’
regions such as Western-North, Northern and Highland of Central
Vietnam.
The funding is given also to Music and Dance troupes and Secondary
schools
of Music and Dance of 18 provinces where the minorities occupy a
main part of provincial
population.
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