Word: indonesianness
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...wouldn't have put money on it, but one of the sweetest sounds in underground music today pays homage to Indonesian film scores and pop acts of the 1960s. White Shoes & the Couples Company, a Jakarta-based six-piece, have parlayed not only a musical but sartorial fascination with their nation's pop culture into a sound and look that have seen them hailed as one of the most "crush worthy" bands of 2006 by influential music site allmusic.com, and "the most blog worthy band on the planet" by Ken Micallef, music critic at Yahoo! Music. Last year rollingstone.com named...
...charm, melodicism and style that we fell in love with immediately," says label head Jim Powers, who signed White Shoes and re-released their self-titled 2005 debut album in the U.S. in September. What American listeners will make of White Shoes' fey and shimmering songs - mostly recorded in Indonesian, with one or two in English - remains to be seen however. Indonesia's biggest stars - platinum-selling bands such as Dewa and Gigi - have never had any impact on the U.S. market. When they tour the States, it's to play to the small handfuls of Indonesian students on American...
Obama's years living in Indonesia, moreover, have made him the most popular U.S. politician in Southeast Asia. When prominent Indonesians visit the U.S., the first person they want to meet is Obama, says Parnohadiningrat Sudjadnan, the Indonesian ambassador to the U.S. "Back home people think of him as one of us, or at least one who understands us," he says, adding that they are delighted to find that Obama speaks passable Bahasa, the language spoken in Indonesia and Malaysia. The international fascination with Obama was on full display when Obama launched his campaign last February and media from more...
...four years Senator Obama spent attending Indonesian elementary schools qualify as his foreign-relations experience, then having my tonsils removed qualifies me as a surgeon. I love Obama, and I think he represents the future of the progressive Democratic Party - just not yet. It will take generations to recover from the damage inflicted on our nation by the blunderer placed in the Oval Office by the Supreme Court, and we need someone with more experience. Let us hope that in '08 we can once again sing, "Don't stop thinking about tomorrow." Nicholas Zizelis, New York City...
...certain degree Obama's own ethnic background helps him: he can speak convincingly to black voters, and his half sister Maya Soetoro-Ng, who is half white and half Indonesian, has campaigned for him amongst Asian Americans. His rock star status has helped recruit high school and college kids, though it's anyone's guess if they will actually turn out. Harrington's daughter, Caitlin, a freshman at the University of Iowa, organized 47 of her classmates to caucus at home - signing them up through "Rock the Caucus" on Facebook - and is working to find them all home precincts...