Music, Health, and Power - Singing the Unsayable in the Gambia

Music, Health, and Power offers an original, on-the-ground analysis of the role that music plays in promoting healthy communities. The book brings the reader inside the world of kanyeleng fertility societies and HIV/AIDS support groups, where women use music to leverage stigma and marginality into new forms of power.

List of contents

CONTENTS
Acknowledgements List of Figures Recorded Selections on the Accompanying Website List of Abbreviations Orthography and Pronunciation 1. Introduction: Music, Health, and Power 2. Women's Power: Gender, Islam, and Health Performance in The Gambia 3. Singing Teriyaa: Life, Death, and HIV-Stigma 4. "Let's Insult the Soldier's Mother": Performative License and Communication 5. When Money Dances: Songs of Health and Wealth 6. Stealing Power: Embodiment and Participation in Kanyeleng Performance 7. "Touch the Drum and They Will Come": Music, Tradition and Communication 8. Beginnings and Endings

About the author

Bonnie B. McConnell is a lecturer in the School of Music at the Australian National University.

Summary

Music, Health, and Power offers an original, on-the-ground analysis of the role that music plays in promoting healthy communities. The book brings the reader inside the world of kanyeleng fertility societies and HIV/AIDS support groups, where women use music to leverage stigma and marginality into new forms of power.

Product details

• Authors: Bonnie Mcconnell, Bonnie B. Mcconnell
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.11.2019
• EAN: 9780367312725
• ISBN: 978-0-367-31272-5
• No. of pages: 178
• Series: SOAS Studies in Music Series; SOAS Studies in Music
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Music > General, dictionaries; MUSIC / General, MUSIC / Religious / General, MUSIC / Ethnomusicology, Gambia, Music: styles and genres, Music: styles & genres, The Gambia