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Until this time, Selassie had kept Ethiopia's cultural life on a tight rein. Live music was entirely the domain of the state bands, members of which could end up in jail for leaving barracks to play a nightclub. Importing or pressing records was also a state monopoly. "Up until the late 60s, it was impossible to have your own band," says Falceto. "But even the emperor at some point thought it was better to let these youngsters go ahead." The effect was startling. The state bands added guitars and keyboards and started dressing sharp. Ahmed and scores of other...
Roche's book is no isolated phenomenon. Feminism, which many German women have long considered the domain of unglamorous, joyless man haters with bad haircuts, suddenly seems sexy again - in the most basic sense of the word. A series of books with titles such as We Alphagirls; Why Feminism Makes Life Better, and Neue Deutsche Mädchen (New German Girls) has cropped up this year. Despite stylistic differences, the books have one thing in common: their authors espouse a feminism that is less interested in a general critique of male-dominated society than in helping women deal directly with...
Apple also unveiled MobileMe, which allows home users to do the kinds of things that were formerly the domain of business users. E-mail, calendars, contacts and photos can now be automatically wirelessly synched among a user's iPhone and computers. The service, which comes with 20GB of storage, costs $99 a year...
...granting autonomy to departments of regional and ethnic studies, academics may think they are allowing marginalized historical characters to have voice in their own domain. But as literary critic and social theorist Gayatri Spivak writes in her article, “Can the Subaltern Speak?”(1988), post-colonial initiatives such as these may in fact be complicit in the task of imperialism. In creating a forum outside of the discipline of history that forces non-Western histories into anthropological molds, the ideal of collective speech may in fact silence the individual voices of the formerly colonized...
...tidal flats of Singapore aren't images that go hand in hand, but half a mile down a deserted road - in the middle of a tropical rainforest - lies a small patch of England's Berkshire, complete with paddocks, stables and riding trails crisscrossing the lush hills. This is the domain of the Bukit Timah Saddle Club, and it's where, on a weekend morning, the scions of Singapore's great and good trot by on their steeds...