The genres of sung tales that are the subject of this volume are one of the most striking aspects of the cultural scene in the Papua New Guinea Highlands. Composed and performed by specialist bards, they are a highly valued art form. From a comparative viewpoint they are remarkable both for their scale and complexity, and for the range of variation that is found among regional genres and indivi…
Pedoman ini disusun dengan tujuan dapat dijadikan sebagai acuan dalam pelaksanaan kegiatan pengolahan bahan perpustakaan di Perpustakaan Nasional RI, sehingga memudahkan dalam mengolah bahan perpustakaan dan menyebarkan informasi. Dengan adanya pedoman ini diharapkan kegiatan pengolahan bahan perpustakaan dapat dilaksanakan sesuai standar, lebih akurat, konsisten dan ketaatazasan.
The student of Chinese painting must from time to time consult John C. Ferguson’s Li-tai chu-lu hua mu, an index to Chinese paintings recorded in Chinese catalogues. The catalogues in which the paintings are compiled are of equal interest: their compilers, the date of their compilation, their scope, their derivation, their merits and shortcomings, and so on. An Annotated Bibliography of Chine…
Late 19th-century Britain experienced an explosion of visual print culture and a simultaneous rise in literacy across social classes. New printing technologies facilitated quick and cheap dissemination of images—illustrated books, periodicals, cartoons, comics, and ephemera—to a mass readership. This Victorian visual turn prefigured the present-day impact of the Internet on how images are p…
The volume examines from a comparative perspective the phenomenon of aesthetic disruption within the various arts in contemporary culture. It assumes that the political potential of contemporary art is not solely derived from presenting its audiences with openly political content, but rather from creating a space of perception and interaction using formal means: a space that makes hegemonic str…
For the first time this volume makes Jean-Pierre Meunier's influential thoughts on the film experience available for an English-speaking readership. Introduced and commented by specialists in film studies and philosophy, Meunier's intricate phenomenological descriptions of the spectator's engagement with fiction films, documentaries and home movies can reach the wide audience they have deserved…
Tujuan utama program preservasi adalah untuk melestarikan bahan perpustakaan baik pelestarian bentuk fisik yaitu dengan mempertahankan bentuk aslinya dan pelestarian dengan alih media dengan melestarian kandungan informasinya. Pembasmian serangga merupakan salah satu upaya untuk memelihara bahan perpustakaan agar terhindar dari kerusakan yang disebabkan oleh hewan dan mikroorganisme. Kondisi li…
We cannot simply listen to our urban past. Yet we encounter a rich cultural heritage of city sounds presented in text, radio and film. How can such 'staged sounds' express the changing identities of cities? This volume presents a collection of studies on the staging of Amsterdam, Berlin and London soundscapes in historical documents, radio plays and films, and offers insights into themes such a…
Indonesia memiliki jutaan dokumen hasil karya intelektual bangsa sebagai sumber informasi pengetahuan yang mengandung nilai-nilai luhur, serta berpotensi dalam peningkatan kecerdasan intelektual, spiritual, dan emosional bangsa Indonesia, sehingga perlu diselamatkan dan dijaga kelestariannya. Tujuan utama dari fungsi pelestarian bahan perpustakaan di semua perpustakaan di Indonesia adalah untuk…
Player pianos, radio-electric circuits, gramophone records, and optical sound film—these were the cutting-edge acoustic technologies of the early twentieth century, and for many musicians and artists of the time, these devices were also the implements of a musical revolution. Instruments for New Music traces a diffuse network of cultural agents who shared the belief that a truly modern music …