While many Western scholars have discussed the technical aspects of Balinese music or the traditional contexts for performance, little has been written in Western languages about Balinese discourses on their music. This dissertation seeks to understand the experience of music in Bali according to Balinese voices through an analysis of oral and written dialogues on music, mainly by musicians and dalangs (shadow play puppeteers) from the village of Sukawati, scholars, teachers, administrators and students from the Indonesian College of the Arts (STSI) in the City of Denpasar. The study examines the influence of modernization on the traditional arts and their role in society. A concentration on Balinese discourses enables individual performers and scholars to represent themselves to a greater extent than previously seen in ethnomusicological scholarship, making this study more of a critical discussion among equals than a Western interpretation of 'others'. This approach permits a rare view into contemporary Balinese conceptions and practices of music.
While many Western scholars have discussed the technical aspects of Balinese music or the traditional contexts for performance, little has been written in Western languages about Balinese discourses on their music. This dissertation seeks to understand the experience of music in Bali according to Balinese voices through an analysis of oral and written dialogues on music, mainly by musicians and dalangs (shadow play puppeteers) from the village of Sukawati, scholars, teachers, administrators and students from the Indonesian College of the Arts (STSI) in the City of Denpasar. The study examines the influence of modernization on the traditional arts and their role in society. A concentration on Balinese discourses enables individual performers and scholars to represent themselves to a greater extent than previously seen in ethnomusicological scholarship, making this study more of a critical discussion among equals than a Western interpretation of 'others'. This approach permits a rare view into contemporary Balinese conceptions and practices of music.
When I first started dating my British man, I never gave a second thought about differences in language and culture. Why would I? After all, we Americans speak English, or do we...? As dating quickly turned into being engaged to and then getting married to my British gentleman, I also found that our common language and culture was a quirky, eye-opening, and highly amusing roller-coaster ride. At times during the most basic every-day conversations, I'd be listening to his words with glazed eyes, wondering what on earth he was saying. It really was as if we were both speaking a completely different language, even though the words that comprised the language were the same. I very quickly learned so much more about the language I was supposed to have been taught at school, the commonalities, the differences, and the good old-fashioned belly-laughs about it all that still punctuate our married life to this day. Since the Anglo-American royal marriage, these quirky anecdotes and fun-filled trivia topics have become more popular than ever. More importantly, I decided to write this book for, and dedicate it to all transatlantic couples who will regularly find themselves completely divided and confused by their common language and culture.
Racconto coinvolgente capace di generare emozioni profonde grazie al susseguirsi di eventi del tutto inattesi. La vita propone spesso situazioni per le quali viene spontaneo immaginare conclusioni negative e di chiusura, in realt questo scritto aiuta a comprendere come esiste un'energia appartenente ad ogni essere vivente capace di stupire e far rinascere.
A captivating sci-fi novel of one woman's battle to survive against all odds. "TOTALLY UNEXPECTED AND BLEW MY MIND... TOUCHED ME IN WAYS FEW BOOKS HAVE." - Goodreads Reviewer "GRABBED ME FROM THE VERY BEGINNING AND DID NOT LET GO." - Goodreads Reviewer "AN ENGROSSING TIME TRAVEL TALE." - Goodreads Reviewer "A FANTASTIC WORK OF SCIENCE FICTION... A CAPTIVATING STORY LINE." - Goodreads Reviewer On a brisk fall morning while out for a jog, Renee blacks out and disappears without a trace. One millennium in the future, a team of scientists stare in horror at the bloodied corpse that materializes in their lab. Breaking the trance, an assistant darts forward to scan the body's oxygen levels. "It's alive " she yells desperately. Stunned by their discovery, the team fights to keep her alive. Yet their fragile guest begins to awaken genetic memories they had long forgotten, setting in motion an unstoppable chain of events.
Shortly after Ren e is commissioned as an Army second lieutenant, a deadly virus sweeps across the world, turning most of the living into mindless undead beings with insatiable cravings for raw human flesh. Stuck with a younger half-brother she has mixed feelings for, Ren e becomes his reluctant protector as they embark on a harrowing journey of survival in search of their father.
As a young girl Ren e faced trauma no child should. In this novel, she takes you on a journey of learning and discovery. Ren e starts as a scared child to develop into a woman who's life is controlled by love and sex. "It wasn't booze or drugs that brought me to rock bottom, it was sex." Ren e must work through her trauma to find her purpose and the meaning of her life. Travel with her to find compassion and the difference between love and sex.
Renee Rabbit, Private Detective, slowly and very deliberately read the ransom note again that had just been hand delivered by messenger and wondered why it had been sent to her because she didn't have any friends, or relatives, that had been kidnapped recently or for that matter at any other time but if they had been where on earth was she supposed to get that amount of cash from and that's when her inner thoughts, brain box, memory, and panic had their say.
Renee Rabbit, Private Detective is what it said on her brand spanking new private detective's office door because that's what she was, a brand new private detective and all she wanted to do was help every animal that had been thrown aside by the bears in blue who could care less about finding those who fell through the cracks of the so-called legal system but she was determined to put that right if it was the last thing she'd ever do but the only problem was that she didn't have any clients, but that was about to change.
Renee Rabbit, Private Detective re-read the advert she'd put in her local evening paper for an assistant and general dog's body and suspiciously eyed her first and only applicant and then asked the simplest of simple questions, 'what's your name' 'Baldy Bane, ' was the sarcastic reply he, the miniature baboon, fired back and before Renee could say another word the miniature baboon added, 'and before you ask, because I know that's what you were about to do, yes my Dad does have a warped sense of humour but beggars can't be choosers, so when do I start' and it was the when do I start part that really annoyed Renee's inner thoughts
