Singing for life
Subtitle: HIV/AIDS and music in Uganda
By: Gregory Barz ; foreword by Jim Wooten.
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2005
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Subjects: Music therapy -- Uganda; AIDS (Disease) -- Prevention -- Uganda; AIDS (Disease) -- Songs and music; AIDS (Disease) -- Drama; AIDS (Disease) -- Religious aspects
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Prelude : "Those who do not listen to our songs and change their behavior will land in problems"; title: Introduction : "Music is taken as a medicine" : singing for life in a time of AIDS; title: HIV/AIDS, jackfruit, and banana weevils : music and medical interventions in Uganda; title: Interlude 1 : Florence Kumunhyu's testimony; title: What you sing nourishes your body like food; title: Interlude 2 : Our problems are bigger than AIDS; title: A conversation with Dr. Alex Muganzi Muganga; title: No one will listen to us unless we bring our drums! : AIDS and women's music performance in Uganda; title: Interlude 3 : Stick to one person : Nawaikoke village women's ensemble; title: Today we have naming of parts : Languaging AIDS through music; title: Interlude 4 : Excerpts from an interview with the Bukato Youth Fellowship; title: Singing in a language AIDS can hear : Music, AIDS, and religion; title: Interlude 5 : Conversation with Faustus Baziri, director of Volset; title: Re-memorying memory : HIV/AIDS and the performance of cultural memory; title: Interlude 6 : Taso drama group testimonies; title: Conclusion : Getting the message across without music is sometimes shaky.