Sounding out heritage
Subtitle: cultural politics and the social practice of quan họ folk song in northern Vietnam
By: Lauren Meeker
Series: Southeast Asia: politics, meaning, and memory; Southeast Asia--politics, meaning, memory
Publisher: University of Hawaiʻi Press
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9780824835682
Copyright date: 2013
Subjects: Folk music; History and criticism
Description: "In 2009, Quan Họ B̆ác 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. This book 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.
Notes: "Glossary": pages 163-164.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 165-176) and index.
Table of contents: title: Music after the revolution: a "unified contradiction"; title: Embodied practices and relationships of sentiment; title: How much for a song?: local stories, national representations; title: Staging quan họ, televising new social relationships; title: Broadcasting to ourselves at the quan họ festivals.