Songs of the South African AIDS Crisis
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Product details:
- Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing (UK)
- Date of Publication 13 November 2025
- Number of Volumes Hardback
- ISBN 9781666928525
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages264 pages
- Size 236x154x20 mm
- Weight 520 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 1 bw illus 678
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Short description:
Explores how and why songs have become such a ubiquitous and formidable force within the AIDS epidemic in Africa
MoreLong description:
Using the concept of musical effervescence, a collective state of synchronized and focused intersubjectivity through music, Gavin Robert Walker reveals how and why songs have become such a ubiquitous and formidable force within the AIDS epidemic in Africa.
Drawn from a rich and powerful cultural history, music has been used to inspire HIV/AIDS activism and advocacy, facilitate local psychosocial healing, communicate life-saving health information, motivate communities towards healthy behaviors, and promote acceptance of individuals living with HIV. In this book, Walker introduces musical effervescence, a collective state of synchronized and focused intersubjectivity through music, to reveal how and why songs have become such a ubiquitous and formidable force within the AIDS epidemic in South Africa. He situates music at the core of human experience, unpacking how collective singing embodies a shared sense of humanity. This compelling analysis engages deeply with interpersonal musical encounters, asking: what makes these experiences both deeply personal and fundamentally social?, how can music be relevant to such a diverse range of outcomes?, and what can musical effervescence contribute to our understanding of the arts and social, emotional, or physical wellness? Challenging conventional assumptions about the universality of music, Walker explores the relational bonds it cultivates through movement, perception, experience, and perspective to reveal music's role in shaping the South African AIDS crisis.
Table of Contents:
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A Note on Style and Terminology
Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
1. Antecedent
2. The Poisoning of the Poor: A Historical Political Economy of AIDS in South Africa
3. Developing Durkheim: Musical Effervescence
4. Song as Social Life and Cultural Armament
5. Edutainment, Celebrity Advocacy, and the Legacy of Live Aid
6. ""Wake up! Demand it! Sing!"": Song and Struggle in the Treatment Action Campaign
7. 'Songs that Speak to the Shock of the Loss': The Generics HIV-Positive Choir and Psychosocial Healing
8. Ethnographic Encounters with Musical Effervescence in the Lucky, The Hero! Applied Theatre Mini-Musical
9. Music Videos as Mass-Media HIV/AIDS Awareness and Prevention
10. Consequent: The Songs of the South African AIDS Crisis
References
Index
About the Author
