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The Culture of AIDS in Africa - Hope and Healing Through Music and the Arts (Hardcover)
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The Culture of AIDS in Africa - Hope and Healing Through Music and the Arts (Hardcover)
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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 M. 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.
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