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