Word: mataram
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...First created during the Mataram kingdom in the 17th century, batik has been historically appreciated throughout the Indonesian archipelago, but especially by the people of central and eastern Java, where the technique of wax-resist dyeing originated. In recent decades, though, batik has gone into crisis: handworked cloth simply cannot compete in price with mass-produced printed textiles. Changes in the manufacture of batik - with several assembly-line workers now robotically completing individual stages that were once handled by a single highly skilled artisan - have also diminished the cloth's allure. Government support has become essential to the industry...
...best-selling recording artist in history, Rahman is the composer and producer (and sometimes the singer) of magnificent melodies for Bollywood musicals. Shadab Hasan Tariq?s amazing site contains virtually all of the music from 29 Rahman films, plus the ?Vande Mataram? song cycle, instrumental themes and the score of Rahman?s West End musical ?Bombay Dreams.? That?s coming to Broadway this spring, and Rahman is now creating the score for a ?Lord of the Rings? musical due in London next year. But why wait to be mesmerized? Click onto Music Central right now and play, for starters...
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