Beschreibung:

604 S.; Abb.; 8°; kart.

Bemerkung:

Gutes Ex. - Von Chetana Nagavajara SIGNIERT. - ESSAYS -- On the Power, Powerlessness and Omnipotence of Language: From Oral Culture through Written Culture to Media Domination -- Language and Cultural Change -- The Loquacious Turn or the Importance of Being Secondary -- Persuasiveness-Loquacity-Mendacity: Dilemmas in Linguistic Communication in the Media-Dominated -- Age -- Angkarn Our Contemporary -- Reading Thutiyawiset in 2014 (B.E. 2557) -- Music-Making versus the Commodification of Music: A Call to Enlightened Amateurs -- Transcending the Bonds of Time and Place: Raj Loesuang and the Schoolboy Somboon Hormtientong -- The Ascent to Prehistory: A Thai Case Study -- Caught in Winds of Change: The Plight of Criticism Today -- Towards an Aesthetics of Research -- Kurt Wais: A Centenary Appraisal -- Why Germany? -- From Selfless Giving to Commodification: The Dilemma of Higher Education -- REVIEWS -- Music -- An Experience of a Lifetime -- Continuity Is the Key to Success: BSO at 30 -- They Rose to the Occasion: The Bangkok Pro Musica Orchestra's Concerts in London and Berlin -- The School of Nopanand: An Academy outside Academia? -- The Siam Society Transforming Itself into a Society for Music Lovers -- Music for the Initiated: Recital "The Art of Piano Transcription" by Jayanat Wisaijorn -- The Concocted Bollywood Saga: The Israel Philharmonic Orchestra on Sanamluang -- The Concertgebouw Is the Real Thing -- An American in Berlin Doing An American in Paris -- Wait for the "Encore". It's Often the Best the Orchestra Can Give -- An Incredible Lineage: From Vienna to New York over One and a Half Centuries -- I Have Heard All This Before: Schumann and Brahms by Simon Rattle & Co. -- Theatre and Opera -- Theatre of Commitment: On the Singaporean Opera Fences -- The Burden of History: Wozzeckin Berlin -- Othello at Democrazy Theatre: Or the Pitfall of Realism -- Visual Arts -- Random Thoughts on Montien Boonma and the Archival Approach to His Life and Work.