The culture of AIDS in Africa : hope and healing in music and the arts / edited by Gregory Barz and Judah M. Cohen.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Barz, Gregory F., 1960- editor.

Cohen, Judah M., editor.

George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

AIDS (Disease)--Africa--Songs and music--History and criticism.

AIDS (Disease).

Music--Social aspects--Africa.

Music.

AIDS (Disease)--Social aspects--Africa.

AIDS (Disease)--Social aspects.

AIDS (Disease) and the arts.

Music--Social aspects.

Africa.

AIDS (Disease) and the arts--Africa.

Physical Description:

xvii, 500 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, [2011]

Summary:

The Culture of AIDS in Africa enters into the many worlds of expression brought forth across this vast continent by the ravaging presence of hiv/aids. Africans and non-Africans, physicians and social scientists, journalists and documentarians share here a common and essential interest in understanding creative expression in crushing and uncertain times. They investigate and engage the social networks, power relationships, and cultural structures that empower the arts to convey messages of hope and healing, and shape the ways that knowledge and counsel reach the wider community. And from Africa to the wider world, they bring intimate, inspiring portraits of the performers, artists, communities, and organizations that have shared insights from their lives and actions deep within this devastating epidemic. Covering the wide expanse of the African continent, the 32 chapters include explorations of, for example, the use of music to cope with aids; the relationship between music, hiv/aids, and social change; and several individual artists' confrontations with hiv/ aids. Source material, such as song lyrics and interviews, weaves throughout the collection, bringing together a vast array of perspectives and sources into a nuanced and profoundly affective portrayal of die intricate relationship between hiv/aids and the arts in Africa. Book jacket.

Contents:

Introduction : The culture of AIDS : hope and healing through the arts in Africa / Gregory Barz and Judah M. Cohen

Interlude : Singing for life : songs of hope, healing, and HIV/AIDS in Uganda / Gregory Barz

Born in Africa (1990) : documentary transcript / John Zaritsky

Tears run dry : coping with AIDS through music in Zimbabwe / Ric Alviso

Singing in the shadow of death : African musicians respond to a pandemic with songs of sorrow, resistance, advocacy, and hope / Jonah Eller-Isaacs

Music, HIV/AIDS, and social change in Nairobi, Kenya / Kathleen J. Van Buren

Interlude : Nyimbo za EDZI = Songs about AIDS / E. Jackson Allison, Jr.

Using music to combat AIDS and other public health issues in Malawi / E. Jackson Allison, Jr., Lawrence H. Brown III, Susan E. Wilson

Visual approaches to HIV literacy in South Africa / Annabelle Wienand

Ngoma dialogue circles (Ngoma-DiCe) : combating HIV/AIDS using local cultural performance in Kenya / Mjomba Majalia

Interlude : To sing of AIDS in Uganda / Judah M. Cohen

HIV/AIDS poster campaigns in Malawi / Eckhard Breitinger

Contemporary uses of the musical arts in Botswana's HIV/AIDS health education initiatives : the case of the radio serial drama Makgabaneng / Abimbola Cole

"We are the loudmouthed HIV-positive people" : "Siyayinqoba/Beat it!" on South African television / Rebecca Hodes

"C'est le wake up! Africa" : two case studies of HIV/AIDS edutainment campaigns in Francophone Africa / Daniel B. Reed

Singing songs of AIDS in Venda, South Africa : performance, pollution, and ethnomusicology in a neo-liberal setting / Fraser G. McNeill and Deborah James

Interlude : "Let's get together" / Namirembe Post-Test Club/TASO Mbarara Drama Group

Aesthetics and activism : Gideon Mendel and the politics of photographing the HIV/AIDS pandemic in South Africa / Michael Godby

A lady who is an akadongo player : singing traditionally to overturn traditional authority / Rebekah Emanuel

"What shall we do?" : Oliver Mtukudzi's songs about HIV/AIDS / Jennifer W. Kyker

Swahili AIDS plays : a challenge to the Aristotelian theory on tragedy / Aldin K. Mutembei

Confronting AIDS through popular music cultures in Kenya : a study of Princess Jully's "Dunia mbaya," Jack Nyadundo's "Ukimwi," and Oduor Odhialo's "Nyakomollo" / Mellitus N. Wanyama and Joseph B. Okong'o

Interlude : Grassroots organizing and celebrity campaigns : the arts and AIDS activism in Morocco / Jeffrey Callen

Siphithemba = We give hope : song and resilience in a South African Zulu HIV/AIDS struggle / Austin Chinagorom Okigbo

Young and wise in Accra, Ghana : a musical response to AIDS / Angela Scharfenberger

Singing as social order : the expressive economy of HIV/AIDS in Mbarara, Uganda / Judah M. Cohen

"I'm a rich man, how can I die?" : circus performance as a means of HIV/AIDS education in Ethiopia / Leah Niederstadt

Interlude : interview with VOLSET Youth Drama Group

Kwaito and the culture of AIDS in South Africa / Gavin Steingo

Positive disturbance : Tafash, Twig, HIV/AIDS, and hip hop in Uganda / Gregory Barz and Gerald C. Liu

"Edzi ndi dolo" = "AIDS is mighty" : singing HIV/AIDS in Malawi, 1980-2008 / John Chipembere Lwanda

Representing HIV/AIDS in Africa : pluralist photography and local empowerment / Roland Bleiker and Amy Kay

Postlude : A tam-tam for Africa : In memoriam : Mamadou Konté (1945-2007) / Patricia Tang.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 437-468) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

ISBN:

0199744483

9780199744473

0199744475

9780199744480

OCLC:

694509777

Publisher Number:

99946502954