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Author McNeill, Fraser G., 1977-

Title AIDS, politics, and music in South Africa / Fraser G. McNeill
Published New York : Cambridge University Press, ©2011
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Description 1 online resource (278 pages) : illustrations, maps
Series The International African Library ; no. 42
International African library ; no. 42.
Contents 1. Introduction: AIDS, politics and music -- 2. The battle for Venda kingship -- 3. A rite to AIDS education? Venda girls' initiation and HIV prevention -- 4. 'We want a job in the government': motivation and mobility in AIDS peer education -- 5. 'We sing about what we cannot talk about': biomedical AIDS knowledge in stanza -- 6. Guitar songs and 'sexy women': a folk cosmology of AIDS -- 7. 'Condoms cause AIDS': poison, prevention, and degrees of separation -- 8. Conclusion
Summary "This book offers an original anthropological approach to the AIDS epidemic in South Africa by arguing that music is central to understanding how AIDS interventions operate"--Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject HIV infections -- South Africa -- Prevention
HIV infections -- Social aspects -- South Africa
Music -- South Africa
Ethnology.
Music.
HIV Infections -- prevention & control
Anthropology, Cultural
Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice
Music
music (discipline)
HEALTH & FITNESS -- Diseases -- AIDS & HIV.
MEDICAL -- AIDS & HIV.
Ethnology
HIV infections -- Prevention
HIV infections -- Social aspects
Music
Aids
Prävention
Gesundheitserziehung
Musik
SUBJECT South Africa
Subject South Africa
Südafrika
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2011001950
ISBN 9781139115735
1139115731
9781139117906
1139117904
9780511842580
0511842589
9781139128568
1139128566
1107616514
9781107616516