Lauren Meeker, Sounding Out Heritage : Cultural Politics and the Social Practice of Quan Ho Folk Song in Northern Vietnam

Lauren Meeker's book Sounding Out Heritage is about the construction, deployment, and transformation of tradition in contemporary Vietnam.She focuses on quan h-a north Vietnamese musical genre-and particularly on developments during the twenty-first century that accompanied the genre's inscription on uneSCO's register of intangible cultural heritage.A caveat before proceeding-my reading of Meeker's book is based on my experience working to document musical