AIDS, politics, and music in South Africa
By: Fraser G. McNeill
Series: International African library -- no. 42; International African library -- no. 42.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781107009912
Subjects: HIV Infections; Music; Prevention & control; HIV infections; Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice; Prevention; Cultural Anthropology
Description: "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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: 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.