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Title The culture of AIDS in Africa : hope and healing in music and the arts / edited by Gregory Barz and Judah M. Cohen
Published New York : Oxford University Press, ©2011

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Description 1 online resource (xvii, 500 pages) : illustrations
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
Summary This title enters into the many worlds of expression brought forth across Africa 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. Chapters investigate and engage the social networks, power relationships, and cultural structures that enable the arts to convey messages of hope and healing, and of knowledge and good counsel to the wider community
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject AIDS (Disease) -- Africa -- Songs and music -- History and criticism
Music -- Social aspects -- Africa
AIDS (Disease) -- Social aspects -- Africa
AIDS (Disease) and the arts -- Africa
HEALTH & FITNESS -- Diseases -- AIDS & HIV.
MEDICAL -- AIDS & HIV.
AIDS (Disease) and the arts
AIDS (Disease) -- Social aspects
Music -- Social aspects
Africa
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
Author Barz, Gregory F., 1960-
Cohen, Judah M.
LC no. 2010053152
ISBN 9780199781362
0199781362