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A keen critic of culture in modern Indonesia, Andrew N. Weintraub shows how a genre of Indonesian music called dangdut evolved from a debased form of urban popular music to a prominent role in Indonesian cultural politics and the commercial music industry.  Dangdut Stories is a social and musical history of dangdut within a range of broader...

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The Language of Perjury Cases outlines the contributions that linguistics can make to both the gathering of evidence and the way that evidence is analyzed in perjury cases....

XII: Literary Strategies: Jewish Texts and ContextsThis volume of this important series deals with Jewish identity in literature. Particular attention is paid to changing national and popular myths, folk memory, and the historical consciousness of Jews in modern times....

Mrs. Dred Scott is an ambitious account of the life of an unlettered woman-Harriet Scott, wife of Dred Scott-who left virtually no historical record of herself. It chronicles Harriet's life from her adolescence on the 1830s Minnesota-Wisconsin frontier, to slavery-era St. Louis and finally to the infamous Supreme Court case, recovering the life of...