The Culture of AIDS in Africa
Hope and Healing Through Music and the Arts
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 3 November 2011
- ISBN 9780199744480
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages520 pages
- Size 251x175x33 mm
- Weight 953 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 23 illustrations 0
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Short description:
The Culture of AIDS in Africa presents 30 chapters offering a multifaceted, nuanced, and deeply affective portrait of the relationship between HIV/AIDS and the arts in Africa, including source material such as song lyrics and interviews.
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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, freeiring 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.
...must reading for anyone involved in the global fight against HIV/AIDS, a book destined to become both popular and a classic text... Within its pages are precious stories of resilience, courage, and human-dignity-preserved during a crisis unimaginable to the average citizen of the industrialized world, or even to health providers and to artists.
Table of Contents:
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
