Soul music has specific sounds. Soul as it appears in the term Soul jazz has a vastly different sound to soul as it appears in the term Nu Classic Soul yet there are links between the two. The socio-cultural connotations of the two souls are also vastly different as one would expect given the fact that they pertain to eras that are separated by some four decades. What happened to soul in that time and space? This book describes the sound of soul in an evocative and as incisive a way by analyzing the real nuts and bolts that have been used to construct the music songform, vocal techniques, instruments, machines and production methods. The overriding interest of the book is not just standard soul but strange soul as performed by Sly Stone, Me Shell Ndgeocello, Bootsy Collins and Bilal Oliver. It also looks at the lack of clear demarcation between strange and standard soul within the work of the same artist. Marvin Gaye started with standard soul and became strange, as did Stevie Wonder. As for Omars Theres Nothing Like This, it is a piece of standard soul, a flimsy one at that, whereas Omars Best By Far is a piece of prime strange soul, a performance that could only have come from a Briton of Jamaican descent. Some soul artists are standard and strange on the same album. The tension between the two states of tradition and innovation is fascinatingly put under the microscope and has a wider resonance in one of souls musical cousins: jazz. The book is not just about music though. The notion of soul, the mythology of it, the ideal of it, has a very wide range of connotations. Le Gendre looks at culture, lifestyle and attitudes to really get a handle on what soul is and how strange some strange souls were talking pill-popping, gun-toting, S&amp;M loving, codpiece sporting, lampshade wearing brothers and sisters have been.

Soul Unsung: Reflections on the Band in Black Popular Music (Popular Music History)

Arts & Photography

Kevin Le Gendre

Music

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Sidelines: Thought Pieces from Tempo Magazine

Politics & Social Sciences

Mohamad, Goenawan

Philosophy

Saman is a story filtered through the lives of its feisty female protagonists and the enigmatic "hero" Saman. It is at once an exposé of the oppression of plantation workers in South Sumatra, a lyrical quest to understand the place of religion and spirituality in contemporary lives, a playful exploration of female sexuality and a story about love in all its guises, while touching on all of Indonesia's taboos: extramarital sex, political repression and the relationship between Christians and Muslims. Saman has taken the Indonesian literary world by storm and sold over 100,000 copies in the Indonesian language, and is now available for the first time in English.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Ayu Utami was born in Bogor, grew up in Jakarta and obtained her bachelor degree in Literature Studies from University of Indonesia. She worked as a journalist for Matra, Forum Keadilan, and D&amp;R. Not long after the New Order regime closed Tempo, Editor, and Detik, she participated in the founding of Indonesia's Alliance of Independent Journalists to protest the closure of those three weeklys. Currently she is working for the cultural journal Kalam, and at Teater Utan Kayu. Saman was awarded the Prince Claus Award in the year 2000.

Saman

Literature & Fiction

Utami, Ayu

Contemporary

The Bubble Economy tells the story of the greatest failure of Japanese economic management since 1945. In the second half of the 1980s Japan's financial madness and arrogance centered on a booming stockmarket and rocketing land prices, which dragged the solid manufacturing economy into a whirlwind of outrageous speculation. Then the boom when spectacularly bust, leaving in its wake a withered stockmarket, crashing land prices, mountains of bad loans, an economy in recession, and a slew of political and financial scandals, graphically exposing the seedy underbelly of Japan's feudal finance system. The Bubble Economy reveals how Japan is spending the first half of the 1990s paying off these excesses in a process that threatens the world's economies with dire consequences, and questions many of the myths built up around Japanese management, pointing to levels of incompetence never before thought possible.

The Bubble Economy: Japan's Extraordinary Speculative Boom of the '80s And the Dramatic Bust of the '90s

Business & Money

WOOD, Christopher

Investing

Hidden high in the mountains of Java lies a graveyard surrounded by ancient trees and steeped in Hindu legend. In the middle of this sacred grove stands a tall memorial dedicated to "the brave men" of the German East Asia Squadron. The graves of ten U-boat sailors rest in the shadow of this mysterious white pillar. Who were these men? And why was a monument dedicated to their honour on the flank of a volcano in Indonesia? These were the questions Geoffrey Bennett asked himself when he chanced upon this remarkable site. He soon identified the man who built the memorial as Emil Helfferich, a young German entrepreneur who sailed to the Dutch East Indies in 1901 to make his fortune in pepper. Helfferich befriended the legendary Graf Spee and his sailors when they visited Java. He cheered their exploits in the early months of World War I - victory at Coronel, the swashbuckling raids of Emden, their daring trek on camelback - and he mourned their inevitable demise. Through the eyes of Helfferich, Bennett recounts tales of the tropics, the wider world and the unseen hand that guided the young man's life and loves. The Pepper Trader takes the reader on a romantic journey from Helfferich's village in Germany to the exotic East Indies and back again to his native land. A memorable cast of real characters, mystical creatures and the Queen of the South Sea accompany the reader on this fascinating voyage. This true story is a unique account of long-forgotten events from the last century - and how they continue to affect us today. ABOUT THE AUTHOR Geoffrey Bennett was born in Ottawa, Canada, and has lived in six Canadian cities as well as Denver, Houston, Paris, Jakarta, Singapore and Bangkok. A student of engineering at the Royal Military College of Canada and geophysics at the University of British Columbia, Mr. Bennett has worked as an exploration geophysicist for thirty years, half of that time in Jakarta, Indonesia. In addition to five papers on geophysics, he has written The Jakarta Hike &amp; Bike Trail Guide as well as several articles on birding, Scouting, canoeing and mountaineering.

The Pepper Trader: True Tales of the German East Asia Squadron And the Man Who Cast Them in Stone

History

Bennett, Geoffrey

Asia

This sophisticated study, now brought back into print as the second book in Equinox Publishing's Classic Indonesia series, delineates the ideology of the Indonesian Communist Party (PKI) during a crucial period in its history. After sketching the evolution of the Party's doctrines between 1951 and 1959, Professor Mortimer analyzes the ideas, programs, and policies of the PKI during Guided Democracy, showing how they developed and were implemented. Mortimer thoroughly examines the relationship between the Party and President Sukarno and offers new interpretations of the events leading up to the abortive coup and the bloody destruction of the PKI in 1965. Specialists and students of modern Indonesia and of Asian nationalism will welcome this first history of Indonesian communism during an era that began with spectacular expansion and ended in disaster.

Indonesian Communism Under Sukarno: Ideology And Politics, 1959-1965

Mortimer, Rex

Ellipsis is a brilliant debut collection of 35 poems and prose poems by Laksmi Pamuntjak. The Herald UK named it one of the Best Books of the Year 2005 and said it is "aesthetically intense and powerfully sensual". The Straits Times called it "a highly recommended read...sheer energy and a celebration of language".

Ellipsis: Poems And Prose Poems by Laksmi Pamuntjak

Pamuntjak, Laksmi

Poetry

The Rise of Indonesian Communism

Ruth T. McVey

Politics & Government

EVER GET THE FEELING that technology is taking over your life and not asking you first? When you've mislaid that important file or can't connect your new camera, do you just want to hurl your computer out of the window? When your kids/friends/grandparents start talking about blogging, podcasting and RSS feeds do you nod as wisely as you can while wrestling with the urge to throw them out of the window too?      The bad news is that technology isn't going away. The good news is that, by picking up this book, you're halfway to making it work for you - not against you. Loose Wire is a compilation of Jeremy Wagstaff's most popular weekly columns on personal technology from The Wall Street Journal Asia and the Far Eastern Economic Review. An ordinary person's primer on technology, Loose Wire explains - in jargon-free language and real sentences - what has happened over the past few years, from the rise of the mobile phone to phishing, to where we are heading, as well as hands-on, practical advice about how to enjoy the ride.  ABOUT THE AUTHOR Jeremy Wagstaff has worked as a journalist since 1986 - for the BBC, Reuters, The Wall Street Journal and the Far Eastern Economic Review. Most of that time has been spent in Asia, covering uprisings, wars, colonial retreats and the odd (sometimes very odd) press conference. No techie, his interest in technology grew out of a realization that it was changing the way journalists - and the world - work, and that following it would probably be a better idea than fighting it.      Since 2000 he has been writing a technology column and has since 2004 appeared regularly on the BBC World Service. He also keeps a blog at www.loosewireblog.com.

Loose Wire: A Personal Guide to Making Technology Work for You

Jeremy Wagstaff

Computers & Technology

Sriro's Desk Reference of Indonesian Law 2007 provides access to the Indonesian legal system in a clear and concise format. Updated annually with the latest rules and regulations through September 2006, this indispensable reference covers over 90 substantive subjects including: - Anti-trust - Arbitration - Banking - Business Organizations - Capital Markets - Contracts - Courts and Civil Actions - Criminal - Debtor and Creditor - Documents and Records - Employment and Immigration - Estates and Trusts - Family Law - Finance and Securities - Foreign Investment and Trade - Government and Legal System - Intellectual Property - Marriage and Divorce - Property Ownership - Property Rights - Sales - Taxation - Treaties and Conventions ABOUT THE AUTHOR Andrew I. Sriro is an attorney practicing law in Jakarta. Andrew holds licenses from the Indonesian Ministry of Justice and Human Rights and the California State Bar. With a broad practice covering corporate, commercial, finance and international transactions and litigation matters, Andrew has represented major international investors and financial institutions, governments, international aid and philanthropic organizations, media conglomerates, insurance companies, and infrastructure developers and operators in multi-billion dollar transactions. In addition to this book, Andrew has been the Reviser of the Indonesian law chapter of Martindale-Hubbell's International Law Digest since 1998, has written a book on Indonesian arbitration law as well as numerous articles and papers on telecommunications, property, financial security interests, shipping, aviation and other areas of Indonesian and international law. Andrew has served as a post-graduate lecturer at Universitas Gadjah Mada and Universitas Borobudur and regularly delivers lectures to officials at the Ministry of Justice and Human Rights and the Supreme Court.

Sriro's Desk Reference of Indonesian Law 2007

Andrew I. Sriro

Law Practice

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