MUSIC: The MIM project by Singapore’s MAX LANE
January 15, 2010
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For more on the background of Singapore’s music pesona “Max Lane” and his music:
“About The Mim Project
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Music: Pramoedya inspires music out of Singapore
January 12, 2010
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It is new and unfamiliar to me too but check out the website http://www.myspace.com/uppmaxlane
It is a site which contains information about and the music of the band “MAX LANE”.
The piece “Pembukaan” uses excerpts from a speech from Pramoedya Ananta Toer
On Joesoef Isak
October 29, 2009
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by Max Lane
On April 20 2004 in a gala ceremony in New York the American PEN Center honoured Indonesian publisher, Joesoef Isak, with the 2004 Jeri Laber Freedom to Publish Award. The award was given to Joesoef Isak in recognition of his long record of courageous publishing during the years of the Suharto dictatorship in Indonesia. Joesoef isak is not just a courageous publisher, he is one of Indonesia’s finest intellectuals who has been at the forefront of a cultural guerrilla war to win back for Indonesians their own history, stolen from them during the 332 years of dictatorship.
In April 2005, Joesoef was awared the Australia PEN Kenealy Award.
Joesoef Isak at the PEN Sydney event where he was awarded the Australian Pen Keneally Award, April, 2005. He is with authopr Thomas Keneally and publisher and broadcaster, Brian Johns. Brian Johns waspublisher at Penguin books and was responsible for Penguin decideing to publish This Earth of Mankind in English.
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