A survey of the immigrant New Wave music scene in the U.S. after the Vietnam War leads filmmaker Elizabeth Ai to make ...

Although the Vietnamese call this type of music “new wave,” the rest of ... the 1.5 generation” — those who landed in a new country as a child or adolescent, yet have traits of both ...

What begins as a panoramic portrait of music wrought from the Vietnamese diaspora emerges ... those whose parents came of age in their home country as the war began in the mid-1950s.