The Culture of AIDS in Africa: Hope and Healing Through Music and the ArtsGregory Barz, Judah Cohen 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, inspiring 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. |
Contents
The Culture of AIDS Hope and Healing Through the Arts in Africa | 3 |
Singing for Life Songs of Hope Healing and HIVAIDS in Uganda | 20 |
Documentary Transcript | 35 |
Coping with AIDS through Music in Zimbabwe | 56 |
African Musicians Respond to a Pandemic with Songs of Sorrow Resistance Advocacy and Hope | 63 |
6 Music HIVAIDS and Social Change in Nairobi Kenya | 70 |
Nyimbo za EDZI Songs about AIDS | 85 |
8 Using Music to Combat AIDS and Other Public Health Issues in Malawi | 88 |
Oliver Mtukudzis Songs about HIVAIDS | 241 |
A Challenge to the Aristotelian Theory on Tragedy | 256 |
A Study of Princess Jullys Dunia Mbaya Jack Nyadundos Ukimwi and Oduor Odhialos Nyakomollo | 268 |
Grassroots Organizing and Celebrity Campaigns The Arts and AIDS Activism in Morocco | 283 |
Song and Resilience in a South African Zulu HIVAIDS Struggle | 285 |
A Musical Response to AIDS | 299 |
The Expressive Economy of HIVAIDS in Mbarara Uganda | 309 |
Circus Performance as a Means of HIVAIDS Education in Ethiopia | 322 |
9 Visual Approaches to HIV Literacy in South Africa | 94 |
Combating HIVAIDS Using Local Cultural Performance in Kenya | 111 |
To Sing of AIDS in Uganda | 129 |
12 HIVAIDS Poster Campaigns in Malawi | 131 |
The Case of the Radio Serial Drama Makgabaneng | 144 |
SiyayinqobaBeat It on South African Television | 158 |
Two Case Studies of HIVAIDS Edutainment Campaigns in Francophone Africa | 180 |
Performance Pollution and Ethnomusicology in a NeoLiberal Setting | 193 |
Lets Get Together | 213 |
Gideon Mendel and the Politics of Photographing the HIVAIDS Pandemic in South Africa | 215 |
Singing Traditionally to Overturn Traditional Authority | 222 |
Interview with VOLSET Youth Drama Group | 341 |
29 Kwaito and the Culture of AIDS in South Africa | 343 |
Tafash Twig HIVAIDS and Hip Hop in Uganda | 362 |
Singing HIVAIDS in Malawi 19802008 | 384 |
Pluralist Photography and Local Empowerment | 404 |
A TamTam for Africa In Memoriam Mamadou Konté 19452007 | 427 |
About the Authors | 429 |
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Notes | 469 |
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