The culture of AIDS in Africa
Subtitle: hope and healing in music and the arts
By: edited by Gregory Barz and Judah M. Cohen
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 500
ISBN-13: 9780199744473; 9780199744480
Subjects: AIDS (Disease); History and criticism; Music; AIDS (Disease) and the arts; Songs and music
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 437-468) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : The culture of AIDS : hope and healing through the arts in Africa / Gregory Barz and Judah M. Cohen; title: Interlude : Singing for life : songs of hope, healing, and HIV/AIDS in Uganda / Gregory Barz; title: Born in Africa (1990) : documentary transcript / John Zaritsky; title: Tears run dry : coping with AIDS through music in Zimbabwe / Ric Alviso; title: Singing in the shadow of death : African musicians respond to a pandemic with songs of sorrow, resistance, advocacy, and hope / Jonah Eller-Isaacs; title: Music, HIV/AIDS, and social change in Nairobi, Kenya / Kathleen J. Van Buren; title: Interlude : Nyimbo za EDZI = Songs about AIDS / E. Jackson Allison, Jr.; title: Using music to combat AIDS and other public health issues in Malawi / E. Jackson Allison, Jr., Lawrence H. Brown III, Susan E. Wilson; title: Visual approaches to HIV literacy in South Africa / Annabelle Wienand; title: Ngoma dialogue circles (Ngoma-DiCe) : combating HIV/AIDS using local cultural performance in Kenya / Mjomba Majalia; title: Interlude : To sing of AIDS in Uganda / Judah M. Cohen; title: HIV/AIDS poster campaigns in Malawi / Eckhard Breitinger; title: Contemporary uses of the musical arts in Botswana's HIV/AIDS health education initiatives : the case of the radio serial drama Makgabaneng / Abimbola Cole; title: "We are the loudmouthed HIV-positive people" : "Siyayinqoba/Beat it!"  on South African television / Rebecca Hodes; title: "C'est le wake up! Africa" : two case studies of HIV/AIDS edutainment campaigns in Francophone Africa / Daniel B. Reed; title: Singing songs of AIDS in Venda, South Africa : performance, pollution, and ethnomusicology in a neo-liberal setting / Fraser G. McNeill and Deborah James; title: Interlude : "Let's get together" / Namirembe Post-Test Club/TASO Mbarara Drama Group; title: Aesthetics and activism : Gideon Mendel and the politics of photographing the HIV/AIDS pandemic in South Africa / Michael Godby; title: A lady who is an akadongo player : singing traditionally to overturn traditional authority / Rebekah Emanuel; title: "What shall we do?" : Oliver Mtukudzi's songs about HIV/AIDS / Jennifer W. Kyker; title: Swahili AIDS plays : a challenge to the Aristotelian theory on tragedy / Aldin K. Mutembei; title: Confronting AIDS through popular music cultures in Kenya : a study of Princess Jully's "Dunia mbaya," Jack Nyadundo's "Ukimwi," and Oduor Odhialo's "Nyakomollo" / Mellitus N. Wanyama and Joseph B. Okong'o; title: Interlude : Grassroots organizing and celebrity campaigns : the arts and AIDS activism in Morocco / Jeffrey Callen; title: Siphithemba = We give hope : song and resilience in a South African Zulu HIV/AIDS struggle / Austin Chinagorom Okigbo; title: Young and wise in Accra, Ghana : a musical response to AIDS / Angela Scharfenberger; title: Singing as social order : the expressive economy of HIV/AIDS in Mbarara, Uganda / Judah M. Cohen; title: "I'm a rich man, how can I die?" : circus performance as a means of HIV/AIDS education in Ethiopia / Leah Niederstadt; title: Interlude : interview with VOLSET Youth Drama Group; title: Kwaito and the culture of AIDS in South Africa / Gavin Steingo; title: Positive disturbance : Tafash, Twig, HIV/AIDS, and hip hop in Uganda / Gregory Barz and Gerald C. Liu; title: "Edzi ndi dolo" = "AIDS is mighty" : singing HIV/AIDS in Malawi, 1980-2008 / John Chipembere Lwanda; title: Representing HIV/AIDS in Africa : pluralist photography and local empowerment / Roland Bleiker and Amy Kay; title: Postlude : A tam-tam for Africa : In memoriam : Mamadou Konté (1945-2007) / Patricia Tang.