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  ipedia.com: Music of East Timor Article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
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East Timor's music reflects its history under the control of both Portugal and Indonesia, who have imported music like gamelan and fado.
The most widespread form of native folk music was the likurai dance, performed to by women to welcome home men after war.
www.ipedia.com /music_of_east_timor.html   (135 words)

  
  East Timor - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
It consists of the eastern half of the island of Timor, the nearby islands of Atauro and Jaco, and Oecussi-Ambeno, an exclave of East Timor situated on the northwestern side of the island, surrounded by West Timor.
To the north of the mountainous island are the Ombai Strait and Wetar Strait, to the south the Timor Sea separates the island from Australia, while to the west lies the Indonesian Province of East Nusa Tenggara.
East Timor is a member of the Community of Portuguese Language Countries (CPLP), also known as the Lusophone Commonwealth, and a member of the Latin Union.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/East_Timor   (1903 words)

  
 Music of East Timor - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
East Timor's music reflects its history under the control of both Portugal and Indonesia, who have imported music like gamelan and fado.
The most widespread form of native folk music was the likurai dance, performed to by women to welcome home men after war.
The guitar has long been an important part of East Timorese musc, though it is an import brought by colonizers; there, however, native kinds of string instruments similar in some ways to the guitar.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Music_of_East_Timor   (231 words)

  
 East Timor   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
The Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste or East Timor is a nation in Southeast Asia, consisting of the eastern half of the island of Timor, the nearby islands of Atauro and Jaco, and Oecussi-Ambeno, a political exclave of East Timor situated on the western side of the island, surrounded by West Timor.
Timor inherited no permanent maritime boundaries when it attained independence, and the Government of East Timor is seeking to negotiate a boundary with Australia to a point halfway between it and Australia.
East Timor is a member of the CPLP, Community of Portuguese Language Countries, also known as the Lusophone Commonwealth, and also a member of the Latin Union.
www.worldhistory.com /wiki/E/East-Timor.htm   (1693 words)

  
 News Archive - East Timor
The program is the fruition of an agreement and Memorandum of Understanding signed between World Vision East Timor, UNICEF and the East Timorese Ministry of Justice and Department of Social Services to provide rehabilitation and diversion programmes for children at risk and children in conflict with the law.
The people of East Timor go to polls April 14 to elect a president, the first election of its kind since the country became free from 25 years of oppressive Indonesian rule, during which an estimated 200,000 East Timorese died of starvation or disease.
When East Timor's independence hero Xanana Gusmao and wife Kirsty moved into their new home near the capital Dili they were confronted with the stark reality of the island state's chronic health service.
www.wvi.org /wvi/archives/asia/east_timor.htm   (1248 words)

  
 EAST TIMOR: Hip-Hop and Rock for Condoms Challenge Church
DARWIN, Australia, Jul 5 (IPS) - Musicians in the predominately Catholic East Timor are taking their HIV/AIDS message directly to the people by circumventing official Church policy that bans the use of condoms.
For 25 years, East Timor was occupied by Indonesia.
In East Timor, only a handful of people have tested positive for HIV, but healthcare workers say poor monitoring and the widespread stigma is probably masking the true picture.
www.aegis.com /news/ips/2004/IP040709.html   (1207 words)

  
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East Timor is emerging from the shadow of about 425 years of colonial rule and more than 2 decades of occupation by the Indonesian government.
The Catholic Church is a powerful religious and social agent in East Timor, and its leadership and recognition of the potential risk of an HIV-1 epidemic is vital for the success of prevention programmes.
East Timor`s minister of health has said that his country has all the conditions necessary for the outbreak of an Aids epidemic and urgent measure are needed to prevent this.
bairopiteclinic.tripod.com /hiv.htm   (7212 words)

  
 Go Asia Pacific - East Timor: Emerging Nation   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
One of the first treaties to be signed by East Timor's new government was the Timor Gap treaty with Australia.
East Timor's celebrations on May 20 marked the end of centuries of struggle - most recently against Indonesian occupation, which begain in 1975.
Music Deli's special feature looks at the role of music in East Timorese society, in particular its part in the struggle for independence.
www.goasiapacific.com /specials/etimor/coverage.htm   (369 words)

  
 BBC News | East Timor | Music to the ears of Timor's voters
The United Nations team organising the referendum in East Timor has turned to the power of music to ensure as many Timorese as possible get their chance to vote.
But besides adding a light-hearted note to a serious issue, the song is seen as a way of spreading information amongst a population in which a large proportion are illiterate and where posters and leaflets would be ineffective.
The song was recorded earlier this month at the government studios where the radio station set up by the UN mission in East Timor (Unamet) has been set up.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/special_report/1999/05/99/east_timor/406600.stm   (460 words)

  
 Nexus: Talking Point - Music in East Timor   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Music in East Timor has played a role in the struggle for independence spiritually and culturall...
Timorese music has evolved from a Portugese, Indonesian background and while there's been much debate about what language would be the official one in this emerging nation's history there's one language that is universal - music.
The traditional role of music in East Timor has enabled politicians and independence fighters to spread the message specifically - especially to people who couldn't read and write but could learn through songs.
abcasiapacific.com /nexus/stories/s530196.htm   (134 words)

  
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 East Timor-related Audiotapes and CDs   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
East Timor, Indonesia, and the U.S. Radio program; talk by Jose Ramos Horta in NYC, February 1997.
Music for East Timor by Bono and others from around the world.
Quito was shot by police in 1987 and committed suicide in 1990; his story is a dramatic metaphor for the struggles of his people.
www.etan.org /resource/xaudiovid.htm   (363 words)

  
 Lyric Music   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
The music that composers make can be heard through several media; the most traditional way is to lyric music hear it live, in the presence, or as one of, the musicians.
After 1960, listening to lyric music music through a recorded form, such as sound recording or watching a music video became more common than experiencing live performance.
Music videos (and MTV) begin to have an effect on record industry in the United States.
music.funhosts.com /lyric/music.html   (849 words)

  
 East Timor News
East Timor's President Xanana Gusmao is due to travel to Beijing to take part in a trade forum.
AN agreement to share revenue from Timor Sea oil-gas developments is back on the agenda after East Timor finally delinked the location of the Greater Sunrise gas development from a formal revenue sharing treaty...
East Timor has little to celebrate as it marks its second year of independence on Thursday still scarred by its violent birth, facing financial...
www.topix.net /world/east-timor   (1140 words)

  
 KITLV - 1999 Daily Reports   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Timor was invaded and occupied by > Indonesia.
The bishop, who is widely seen as East Timor's spiritual leader, urged his occupied homeland's pro-Indonesian militias to disarm and the Indonesian Armed Forces to leave the former = Portuguese overseas province.
East Timor's Nobel Peace Prize co-laureate, Roman Catholic Bishop Dom Ximenes Belo, said last week that only the deployment of = a UN mission could push the occupied territory's peace process = forward.
www.kitlv.nl /daily/990316.html   (7419 words)

  
 Links to East Timorese Resources on the Internet
A meeting between East Timorese guerilla leader David Alex and a delegation of Melbourne students in February was filmed by University Students for East Timor (USET).
The largest ever public education conference on East Timor will be held June 21-24, sponsored by the University of Sydney (School of Asian Studies), University of New South Wales (Centre for Human Rights) and University of Technology, Sydney (Institute for International Studies), together with Oporto University in Portugal.
The strength of East Timorese support for Bishop Belo against his Indonesian attackers was clearly manifested between November 12 and 15 during several days of peaceful demonstrations in Dili.
www.freedom.tp /etlinks.htm   (1465 words)

  
 Progam Schedule & Content - Full Spectrum Indonesian Music Hour
Experiences of Sunshine Coast agriculturalist in East Timor also view his pictures of the people and places he visited there at this url.
Get to know his music and hear him describe the stories within his compostions in a series of exclusive recorded interviews from his Purwokerto studio in Java.
The Politics of Indonesian Music from the Revolution to Reformasi.
www.angelfire.com /jazz/indomusichour/programs.html   (1014 words)

  
 The Irrawaddy News Magazine Online Edition   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
July 09, 2004—Musicians in the predominately Catholic East Timor are taking their HIV/AIDS message directly to the people by circumventing official Church policy that bans the use of condoms.
A World Health Organization, or WHO, assessment team that visited post-conflict East Timor in November 2000 concludes in a report that condom use is still a sensitive issue and does not get the support from the Catholic Church.
York says new forms of emerging music in East Timor like hip-hop, reggae, ska and rock are important mediums for social messages.
www.irrawaddy.org /aviewer.asp?a=3658&z=11   (948 words)

  
 Music Binds Australia and East Timor
Now the guitar is important to East Timorese I presume because of the Portuguese influence - Can you talk a little bit about the particular identity of East Timorese music.
That's because Portuguese when they came from Portugal to Timor, they always bring - you know they left their wives and their kids, and the only things they can play to remind (themselves of) their relatives in Portugual is by the songs.
ARAUJO: I left Timor when I was probably six, five years old, and I went to Portugal.
www.etan.org /et2001c/december/16-22/21music.htm   (957 words)

  
 Music of Indonesia, Vol 16
The gong ensembles of Sumba and East Timor are non-melodic; those in Timor play for dances, but in Sumba the recording team were fortunate to meet two groups who were willing to play funeral music when there was no funeral taking place.
but followed the funeral music with a loud dance tune, to make clear that it was just a demonstration!) This clip (sound clip) is from the latter recording session, and works within a scale (C D E F# G A B) confined to a major seventh, and including a semitone and a tritone.
The most remarkable music on this CD, though, is surely the string band music of the Meto and Tetun peoples of Timor, played on home made guitars and fiddles, usually with singers, and sometimes a flute or ocarina.
www.mustrad.org.uk /reviews/indonesi.htm   (1139 words)

  
 People's Weekly World Newspaper Online - International notes   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
East Timor formally declared its independence this week with a joyous ceremony attended by some 200,000 people in the capital city of Dili.
A gala of traditional East Timor music, songs, dances and drum-beating performances was preceded by an open air mass hosted by East Timor Bishop Carlos Felipe Ximenes Belo, a 1995 Nobel Peace Prize winner.
In his remarks, Annan praised the courage and steadfastness of the East Timorese in their independence struggle, and urged them to remain unified in their full independence.
www.pww.org /article/articleprint/1267   (703 words)

  
 FDL - AP Links: "Internet Resources on East Timor"
The transcript of a 12/96 public meeting on East Timor in NYC with Noam Chomsky, Constancio Pinto, Allan Nairn and others is at:
The Usenet newsgroup soc.culture.portuguese includes information on East Timor in both Portuguese and English.
The soc.culture.indonesia discussion of East Timor is mostly flaming debates, with little substantive English-language material not available elsewhere.
www.nancho.net /fdlap/timornet.html   (1077 words)

  
 East Timor - Time - Weather - Coins - Hotels - Music
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www.exxun.com /EastTimor/k_lk.html   (267 words)

  
 Green Left - Music for East Timor
The event was disrupted by a City Council officer, who attempted to revoke the permit on the grounds that the music had political content, which was not allowed in the park.
Support from the crowd prevented the officer from unplugging the musical equipment, and meanwhile the crowd heard from Jose Gusmao on the struggle of the East Timorese people.
The DIEA office had been occupied for nine hours one week earlier by 30 activists demanding a response from Evans on the situation in East Timor.
www.greenleft.org.au /1994/169/8354   (249 words)

  
 BBC News | Asia-Pacific | East Timor campaign rules agreed   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Pro-Indonesia leader Domingus Soares and pro-independence leader Leandro Isaac conducted a signing ceremony at the United Nations headquarters in the regional capital Dili in the presence of Ian Martin who heads Unamet, the UN mission for East Timor.
Megawati has said she would like to see East Timor remain part of Indonesia, but has promised to respect the outcome of the referendum.
Ms Megawati said her reason for visiting East Timor was to thank members of her party for their efforts during last month's elections.
news.bbc.co.uk /hi/english/world/asia-pacific/newsid_415000/415711.stm   (446 words)

  
 East Timor Websites & Links
East Timor, special issue of the New Internationalist (March 1994).
Timor Gap Treaty with Indonesia and maps of the area can be found at the Australian Department of Industry, Science and Resources site.
Retratu Timor Lorosae, Timor Aid presents a series of fl and white portraits of East Timorese by noted photographer Jon Lewis.
www.etan.org /resource/websites.htm   (3487 words)

  
 East Timor Travel Guides: East Timor Travel Site: ThingsAsian
East Timor has a population of approximately 800,000 people.
In May 2002, after 450 years of continuous foreign occupation, East Timor became the world's newest independent...
The music of the Portuguese fado blends with the techno-beat of Indonesian rock; guitarists practice by the roadside; an office building in a suburb of the capital...
www.thingsasian.com /east-timor   (190 words)

  
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