Aids, Politics, and Music in South Africa

Klappentext This book offers an original anthropological approach to the AIDS epidemic in South Africa! demonstrating why AIDS interventions in the former homeland of Venda have failed. Through the songs of female initiation! AIDS education and wandering minstrels! the book argues that music is central to understanding how AIDS interventions operate. Zusammenfassung This book offers an original anthropological approach to the AIDS epidemic in South Africa! demonstrating why AIDS interventions in the former homeland of Venda have failed. Through the songs of female initiation! AIDS education and wandering minstrels! the book argues that music is central to understanding how AIDS interventions operate. 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.

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• Authors: Fraser G. McNeill, Fraser G. (University of Pretoria) Mcneill
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 11.09.2014
• EAN: 9781107417564
• ISBN: 978-1-107-41756-4
• No. of pages: 308
• Series: The International African Library; The International African Library
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Miscellaneous