Boarding the longboat in Balikpapan, Borneo.

Borneo’s Smoking Skulls and the Sacrificial Swine: Dancing for the Dead in a Longhouse

By S. Bedford I expected certain quintessential experiences while backpacking in Indonesia. Publicly embarrassing myself while surfing in Kuta Beach, for instance, or losing my sunglasses to a furry fiend at the Monkey Temple in Ubud. What I did not foresee was winding up dancing in a death ceremony in a longhouse on the island…

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Rams head on stage: An excellent live music venue 7 nights a week.

GoNOMAD – World Music

Just as Dizzy Gillespie used to get asked “What IS jazz?” I am often asked about this rather new musical genre called World Music. The term “World Music” is an invented label. It was created in 1987 by some sales executives in London in order to help in the marketing of recordings that didn’t fit…

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