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The Culture of AIDS in Africa
Hope and Healing Through Music and the Arts
Edited by Gregory Barz and Judah Cohen
528 pages
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23 illustrations
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177x254mm
978-0-19-974447-3
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Hardback
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03 November 2011
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- Diverse contributions from Africans and non-Africans, physicians and social scientists, journalists and documentarians, etc.
- Intimate portraits of the performers, artists, communities and organizations that hosted the researchers
- Deeply affective portrait of the relationship between HIV/AIDS and the arts in Africa
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 enable the arts to convey messages of hope and healing, and of knowledge and good counsel to 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 with them their insights and the sense they have made of their lives and actions from deep within this devastating epidemic.
Covering the wide expanse of the African continent, the 30 chapters include explorations of, for example, the use of music to cope with AIDS; the relationship between music, HIV/AIDS, and social change; visual approaches to HIV literacy; radio and television as tools for "edutainment;" several individual artists' confrontations with HIV/AIDS; various performance groups' response to the epidemic; combating HIV/AIDS with local cultural performance; and more. Source material, such as song lyrics and interviews, weaves throughout the collection, and contributions
by editors Gregory Baz and Judah Cohen bookend the whole, to bring together a vast array of perspectives and sources into a nuanced and profoundly affective portrayal of the intricate relationship between HIV/AIDS and the arts in Africa.Readership: The Culture of AIDS in Africa will find widespread interest across fields: ethnomusicology, African studies, human rights, medicine, and the general public concerned about the HIV/AIDS epidemic in Africa and globally. Adoptions will be seen into graduate and undergraduate seminars.
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Edited by Gregory Barz, Associate Professor of Ethnomusicology, Vanderbilt University, and Judah Cohen, Professor of Jewish Culture, Indiana University Gregory Barz is Associate Professor of Ethnomusicology, Graduate Dept. of Religion, and African American Studies at Vanderbilt University. His publications include Singing for Life: Music and HIV/AIDS in Uganda (Routledge, 2005); Performing Religion: Negotiating Past and Present in Kwaya Music of Tanzania (Rodopi, 2003), and Shadows in the Field: New Perspectives for Fieldwork in Ethnomusicology, Second Edition (co-editor with Timothy Cooley, OUP, 2008).
Judah Cohen is the Lou and Sybil Mervis Professor of Jewish Culture and Assistant Professor of Jewish Studies and Folklore and Ethnomusicology at Indiana University. He is the author of Through the Sands of Time: A History of the Jewish Community of St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands (Brandeis/University Press of New England, 2004). Contributors:
E. Jackson Allison, Jr.;
Jack Allison (SUNY Upstate Medical University);
Ric Alviso (California State University, Northridge);
Gregory Barz (Vanderbilt University);
Roland Bleiker (University of Queensland);
Eckhard Breitinger (University of Bayreuth);
Lawrence H. Brown III;
Jeffrey Callen;
Judah Cohen (Indiana University);
Abimbola Cole (UCLA);
Jonah Eller-Isaacs;
Rebekah Emanuel (Yale University);
Michael Godby (University of Cape Town);
Rebecca Hodes (Oxford);
Deborah James (London School of Economics);
Amy Kay (Centre for Development and Population Activities);
Jennifer W. Kyker (University of Pennsylvania);
Gerald C. Liu (Vanderbilt University);
John Chipembere Lwanda (University of Edinburgh);
Fraser McNeill (London School of Economics);
Leonard Mjomba (Kenya);
Aldin Mutembei (Princeton);
Leah Niederstadt (Wheaton College);
Austin Chinagorom Okigbo (Indiana University);
Joseph Basil Okong'o (Moi University, Kenya);
Daniel B. Reed (Indiana University);
Angela Scharfenberger (Indiana University);
Gavin Steingo;
Patricia Tang (Massachusetts Institute of Technology);
Kathleen Van Buren (University of Sheffield);
Mellitus Wanyama (Moi University, Kenya);
Annabelle Wienand (University of Cape Town);
Susan E. Wilson;
John Zaritsky
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Introduction
1. The Culture of AIDS: Hope and Healing Through the Arts in Africa
Gregory Barz and Judah Cohen
Interlude
2. Singing for Life: Songs of Hope, Healing, and HIV/AIDS in Uganda, CD liner notes
Gregory Barz
Part 1 - Reports from the Field
3. Born in Africa - Transcript
John Zaritsky
4. Tears Run Dry: Coping with AIDS through Music in Zimbabwe
Ric Alviso
5. Singing in the Shadow of Death: African Musicians Respond to a Pandemic with Songs of Sorrow, Resistance, Advocacy, and Hope
Jonah Eller-Isaacs
6. Music, HIV/AIDS, and Social Change in Nairobi, Kenya
Kathleen Van Buren
Interlude
7. Song Lyrics from Nyimbo za Edzi [Songs about AIDS]
Jack Allison
Part 2 - HIV/AIDS and the Arts: First Person
8. Using Music to Combat AIDS and Other Public Health Issues in Malawi
E. Jackson Allison, Jr., Lawrence H. Brown III, Susan E. Wilson
9. Visual Approaches to HIV Literacy in South Africa
Annabelle Wienand
10. Ngoma Dialogue Circles (Ngoma-DiCe): Combating HIV/AIDS Using Local African
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