CENTRE 42 LIMITED Page | 1 with support from Resource Partner SELECT BOOKS 1915 Elangovan ISBN: 9810535082 Publication Date: 2005 Retail Price: SGD15.00 Extent: 95 pp Product Code: 037191 Binding: Paperback The controversial and provocative work of the Singapore playwright Elangovan has been widely discussed. This play, "1915" was first performed in Singapore in August 2004 and features several brutal abuses of Indian slave laborers including in Vancouver, in urban Singapore and on estates and in the Singapore mutiny of 1915. The second playlet, 'Romusha' features tragedy and horror imposed during the Japanese Occupation 1942-5 and was first produced in January 2005. (Re)Producing Southeast Asian Performing Arts & Southeast Asian Bodies, Music, Dance And Other Movement Arts Mohd Anis Md Nor ISBN: 9789718517468 Publication Date: 2013 Retail Price: SGD45.40 Extent: 274 pp Product Code: 055982 Binding: Paperback These 43 papers and 10 abstracts are from the Manila 2012 2nd Symposium of the International Council for Traditional Music Study Group on Performing Arts of Southeast Asia. Eighteen papers explore aspects of producing in relation to Tourism and Commodification, to Local Identity and to Institutionalizing Trends. Twenty papers then discuss performing arts in relation to the Southeast Asian Body, and to Movement, Music, Ritual and Theatre. The last five papers make note of ongoing research projects. With black-and-white photos and graphics, insets and conference photographs. - All Rights Reserved - CENTRE 42 LIMITED Page | 2 with support from Resource Partner SELECT BOOKS 9 Classroom Plays Kon, Stella ISBN: 981055785X Publication Date: 2006 Retail Price: SGD14.00 Extent: 150 pp Product Code: 039226 Binding: Paperback Stella Kon, one of Singapore's most respected writers, has compiled some of her earliest plays in one volume for the benefit of secondary school students. The nine plays are: The Immigrant, Runner of Marathon, Kumba Kumba, The Naga in the Swamp, Hideout in Changi, Emporium, In the Repair Shop, The Eldest Brother, and Birds of a Feather. These were selected because they can easily be mounted in a classroom and because Stella Kon believes that they challenge the students to think about some difficult issues like conflict in the family, materialism, social reform and non-conformism. Production notes are provided for each play. Ai Weiwei: According To What? ISBN: 9783791352404 Publication Date: 2012 Retail Price: SGD59.98 Extent: 144 pp Product Code: 054162 Binding: Hardcover A leading figure among Chinese artists of his generation, Ai Weiwei creates art that poses fundamental questions about the ways in which art and culture interrelate with society and how society interrelates with individual existence. Featuring his most significant works since 2000, this catalog offers insight into the artist's use of simple forms and artistic methods reminiscent of Conceptual and Minimal art, his preoccupation with the traditional design of furniture and other daily objects, and his iconoclastic attitudes toward traditional values and political authority. The book includes works in sculpture, photography, video, and site-specific architectural installations, making it an invaluable resource on Ai's enormously diverse oeuvre. - All Rights Reserved - CENTRE 42 LIMITED Page | 3 with support from Resource Partner SELECT BOOKS Alfian Sa'at: Collected Plays One - The Optic Trilogy; Fugitives; Homesick; SeX.Violence.Blood.Gore Alfian Sa’at ISBN: 9789810860653 Publication Date: 2010 Retail Price: SGD25.00 Extent: 329 pp Product Code: 049570 Binding: Paperback These four plays, which have been produced by W!ld Rice, are by Singaporean playwright Alfian Sa'at. Innovative, insightful and often controversial, they raise matters relevant to today's arts and social issues. CJW-L Wee's introduction set the plays into the local and international cultural context. Glossary. Alfian Sa'at: Collected Plays Two - The Asian Boys Trilogy: Dreamplay, Landmarks, Happy Endings Alfian Sa’at ISBN: 9789810870416 Publication Date: 2010 Retail Price: SGD25.00 Extent: 289 pp Product Code: 05046 Binding: Paperback Alfian Sa'at's The Asian Boys Trilogy is a fascinating, insightful tour through the lives and loves of the gay community in Singapore. In the campy and carnivalesque Dreamplay, history is turned upside-down as a goddess travels through time to 'save gay men from themselves'. In Landmarks, geography takes centre stage, as eight short plays explore the spaces that have been claimed, colonised, and trespassed by those at the margins of the mainstream. In Happy Endings, the playwright's adaptation of the novel Peculiar Chris evolves into a meditation on the relationship between life and literature. With clear-eyed compassion and eloquent outrage, this collection of plays charts the coming-of-age of a community finding its voice. - All Rights Reserved - CENTRE 42 LIMITED Page | 4 with support from Resource Partner SELECT BOOKS Apache Over Singapore: The Story Of Singapore SiXties Music - Vol. 1 Pereira, Joseph C. ISBN: 9789814022842 Publication Date: 2011 Retail Price: SGD28.00 Extent: 146 pp Product Code: 052386 Binding: Paperback The Cliff Richard and the Shadows concert in November 1961 opened the floodgates for Singapore pop music. It and subsequent pop music developments made for a very exciting pop scene in Singapore as there were releases to look forward to every week from EMI, Philips, Decca and other record companies, including local labels. With shows almost nightly and tea dances to welcome the week it was pop heaven. This book examines why it was so. Individual profiles of the bigger acts study their careers in details and trends like rhythm and blues, the blues movement and pyschedelia are examined. The attitudes of officialdom to this phenomenon in Singapore as well as other factors like the infrastructure that helped the sixties pop music movement are also discussed. Apsaras Of Angkor, The Loviny, Christophe ISBN: 2020531488 Publication Date: 2003 Retail Price: SGD50.00 Extent: 191 pp Product Code: 046153 Binding: Hardcover The temples and sculptures at Angkor include well-known representations of apsaras, the celestial dancers of Cambodia's mythology who are intermediaries between the gods, the King and the people. In this volume colour photographs of Angkor's ancient statues and temples include dancing ballerinas from the Cambodian Royal Ballet. Twentieth-century sketches by Auguste Rodin and George Groslier and informal photographs of dancers and musicians at leisure and in performance show Angkor has a present as well as past. Bibliography. Bilingual in Khmer. - All Rights Reserved - CENTRE 42 LIMITED Page | 5 with support from Resource Partner SELECT BOOKS Asian Art And Culture Canta, Marilyn; Cecilia Dela Paz Et Al ISBN: 9789712719110 Publication Date: 2012 Retail Price: SGD40.31 Extent: 181 pp Product Code: 053451 Binding: Paperback This is a general introduction to the art and crafts of Asia. Black-and-white photo insets illustrate the discussion of traditional art forms and ongoing craft activities in India, China, Japan and Korea. An overview on the nature and trends in Southeast Asia's monumental art and in People's Arts in textiles, wood, metal, and terracotta as well as drama and dance, is followed by comments on contemporary trends. Asian Dance: Voice Of The Millennium Mohd Anis Md Nor (Ed) ISBN: 9834042035 Publication Date: 2000 Retail Price: SGD12.52 Extent: 131 pp Product Code: 030833 Binding: Paperback This monograph grew out of the papers presented by members of the Asia Pacific Dance Research Society at the 2000 FEET: A Celebration of World Dance conference in Philadelphia, June 1999. Papers discuss dance in the Philippines, Indonesia, Malaysia, India, Bali, Southeast Asia in general, the popularity of Indian dance in Japan, and "covert" dance in Afghanistan. With bibliography. - All Rights Reserved - CENTRE 42 LIMITED Page | 6 with support from Resource Partner SELECT BOOKS At A Plank Bridge: A Play In One Act Kannan Menon ISBN: 9789833221356 Publication Date: 2012 Retail Price: SGD11.70 Extent: 60 pp Product Code: 054069 Binding: Paperback This thriller set in World War II sees two men who accidentally meet on a Malayan country road in 1945, just after the surrender of the Japanese occupation army. Fook Leong, an ex-school teacher, comes across a handcart by the road. Thinking Fook Leong is a bandit, the cart owner, Chandran, attacks him. The two men resolve the situation but discover far deeper conflicts between them as their destinies collide. Austronesian Soundscapes: Performing Arts In Oceania And Southeast Asia Abels, Birgit ISBN: 9789089640857 Publication Date: 2011 Retail Price: SGD76.25 Extent: 336 pp Product Code: 050162 Binding: Paperback Austronesian Soundscapes is a collection of essays on Austronesian musics that transcends disciplinary frontiers in the humanities and social sciences. In all of Austronesia, music plays a crucial role in the negotiation of cultural identities; yet research on the diversity of the Austronesian cultural belt's music has hitherto been rather sparse. Responding to this gap, Austronesian Soundscapes offers comprehensive analyses of traditional and contemporary Austronesian musics, investigating how music in the region reflects the 21st century's challenges. With references and index. - All Rights Reserved - CENTRE 42 LIMITED Page | 7 with support from Resource Partner SELECT BOOKS Bao Zhang Shang Kan Bu Dao De Wen Zhang Pan Yao Tian ISBN: 9789810888886 Publication Date: