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Sounding Out Heritage: Cultural Politics and the Social Practice of Quan ho Folk Song in Northern Vietnam (Southeast Asia: Politics, Meaning, and Memory, 23) by Lauren Meeker; David P. Chandler; Rita Smith Kipp is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
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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 timel
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- Author
- Lauren Meeker; David P. Chandler; Rita Smith Kipp
- Publisher
- Honolulu: University of Hawaiʻi Press
- Published
- 2013
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780824870928
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- History, Music, Political Science
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