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Meeker, Lauren, 1971- author.
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Folk music -- Vietnam, Northern -- History and criticism.
Folk music -- Political aspects -- Vietnam, Northern.
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Sounding out heritage : cultural politics and the social practice of quan họ folk song in northern Vietnam / Lauren Meeker.
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Meeker, Lauren, 1971- author.
Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, c2013.
Subjects
Folk music -- Vietnam, Northern -- History and criticism.
Folk music -- Political aspects -- Vietnam, Northern.
ISBN:
9780824835682 (cloth : alk. paper)
0824835689 (cloth : alk. paper)
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Southeast Asia--politics, meaning, memory.
Description:
viii, 192 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Contents:
Music after the revolution: a "unified contradiction" -- Embodied practices and relationships of sentiment -- How much for a song?: local stories, national representations -- Staging quan họ, televising new social relationships -- Broadcasting to ourselves at the quan họ festivals.
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"Sounding Out Heritage explores the cultural politics that have shaped the recent history and practice of a unique style of folk song that originated in Bắc Ninh province, northern Vietnam. The book delves into the rich and complicated history of quan họ, showing the changes it has undergone over the last sixty years as it moved from village practice onto the professional stage. Interweaving an examination of folk music, cultural nationalism, and cultural heritage with an in-depth ethnographic account of the changing social practice of quan ho folk song, author Lauren Meeker presents a vivid and historically contextualized picture of the quan họ "soundscape." Village practitioners, ordinary people who love to sing quan họ, must now negotiate increased attention from those outside the village and their own designation as "living treasures." Professional singers, with their different performance styles and representational practices, have been incorporated into the quan họ soundscape in an effort to highlight and popularize the culture of Bắc Ninh province in the national context. With its focus on the politics of rescuing, preserving, and performing folk music, this book makes a timely contribution to studies of cultural politics by showing with considerable nuance how a tradition can become a self-conscious heritage and national icon. In 2009, Quan Họ Bắc Ninh Folk Songs was inscribed on UNESCO's Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity. Defining and reframing quan họ as cultural heritage has further complicated the relationship between village and professional quan họ and raises crucial issues about who has the authority to speak for quan họ in the international context. Sounding Out Heritage offers an in-depth account of the impact of cultural politics on the lives and practices of quan họ folk singers in Vietnam and shows compellingly how a tradition can mean many things to many people." -- Publisher's description.
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