AIDS, politics, and music in South Africa Fraser G. McNeill.

By: McNeill, Fraser GSeries: International African Library | ; no. 42Publication details: New York Cambridge University Press 2011Description: xxv, 278 p. : illISBN: 9781107009912 Subject(s): HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE--SOUTH AFRICA | MUSIC--SOUTH AFRICA | HIV INFECTIONS -- PREVENTION -- SOUTH AFRICA | HIV INFECTIONS--SOCIAL ASPECTS--SOUTH AFRICA | HIV INFECTIONS--PREVENTION & CONTROL--SOUTH AFRICA | ANTHROPOLOGY, CULTURAL--SOUTH AFRICA | MUSIC-- SOUTH AFRICALOC classification: RA 643.86. S6 Mac
Contents:
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.
Summary: "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.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 251-271) and index.

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.

"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.

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