In an era of fast audiovisual consumption, where social media strongly shapes how audiences engage with the arts, cai luong has become “slower” than the pace of life. A long vong co (southern folk ...

With just a few keywords typed into TikTok or Facebook, users can now encounter countless clips of vong co, cai luong excerpts, and don ca tai tu performances, many drawing hundreds of thousands, even ...

Vietnamese-born, U.S.-raised Leon Le makes his feature debut with 'Song Lang.' By Elizabeth Kerr In Vietnamese musical culture, the song lang is a percussion instrument used in modern folk opera cai ...

Recent controversies surrounding figures such as Vo Thuy Dung, niece of late cai luong (Vietnamese traditional opera) artist Vu Linh, and Duoc Si Tien have once again exposed deeper concerns about ...