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Seas of Silver: Songs to Reduce Plastic Waste in Vietnamese Waterways (2025)
Book Chapter
O'Briain, L. (2025). Seas of Silver: Songs to Reduce Plastic Waste in Vietnamese Waterways. In F.-J. Hernández Adrián, & A. Theocharis (Eds.), River Delta Futures: Endangered Communities in Audiovisual Media (177-194). Bloomsbury Publishing. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781350417649.ch-9

Problems with waste and water management go back to colonial times in the major cities of mainland Southeast Asia. Over the past half century, the population of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam has doubled from 50 to 100 million. Prior to economic r... Read More about Seas of Silver: Songs to Reduce Plastic Waste in Vietnamese Waterways.

Voices of Vietnam: A Century of Radio, Red Music, and Revolution (2021)
Book
Ó Briain, L. (2022). Voices of Vietnam: A Century of Radio, Red Music, and Revolution. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197558232.001.0001

On September 2, 1945, Ho Chi Minh read the Declaration of Independence over a makeshift wired loudspeaker system to thousands of listeners in Hanoi. Five days later, Ho’s Viet Minh forces set up a clandestine radio station using equipment brought to... Read More about Voices of Vietnam: A Century of Radio, Red Music, and Revolution.

Musical cosmopolitanism in late-colonial Hanoi (2018)
Journal Article
Ó Briain, L. (2018). Musical cosmopolitanism in late-colonial Hanoi. Ethnomusicology Forum, 27(3), 265-285. https://doi.org/10.1080/17411912.2018.1521728

This article investigates how radio was used to amplify the reach of vernacular forms of musical cosmopolitanism in late-colonial Hanoi. Between 1948 and the early 1950s, the musicians of Việt Nhạc – the first all-Vietnamese ensemble to appear regula... Read More about Musical cosmopolitanism in late-colonial Hanoi.

Musical Minorities: The Sounds of Hmong Ethnicity in Northern Vietnam (2018)
Book
O'Briain, L. (2018). Musical Minorities: The Sounds of Hmong Ethnicity in Northern Vietnam. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190626969.001.0001

© Oxford University Press 2018. Musical Minorities is the first English-language monograph on the performing arts of an ethnic minority in Vietnam. Living primarily in the northern mountains, many of the one million Hmong in Vietnam have strategicall... Read More about Musical Minorities: The Sounds of Hmong Ethnicity in Northern Vietnam.

Beyond the Digital Diaspora: YouTube Methodologies, Online Networking and the Hmong Music Festival (2015)
Journal Article
Ó Briain, L. (2015). Beyond the Digital Diaspora: YouTube Methodologies, Online Networking and the Hmong Music Festival. Journal of World Popular Music, 2(2), 289-306. https://doi.org/10.1558/jwpm.v2i2.26561

This article examines attempts by American Hmong to turn the thriving Hmong digital diaspora into a sustainable offline musical community. The Hmong, an ethnic group of five million people spread across five continents, have embraced YouTube as a pri... Read More about Beyond the Digital Diaspora: YouTube Methodologies, Online Networking and the Hmong Music Festival.