A performance culture of illness and wellness In southern Uganda,
ritual healing traditions called kusamira and nswezi rely on music
to treat sickness and maintain well-being. Peter J. Hoesing blends
ethnomusicological fieldwork with analysis to examine how kusamira
and nswezi performance socializes dynamic processes of illness,
wellness, and health. People participate in these traditions for
reasons that range from preserving ideas to generating strategies
that allow them to navigate changing circumstances. Indeed, the
performance of kusamira and nswezi reproduces ideas that remain
relevant for succeeding generations. Hoesing shows the potential of
this social reproduction of well-being to shape development in a
region where over 80 percent of the population relies on
traditional healers for primary health care.Comprehensive and vivid
with eyewitness detail, Kusamira Music in Uganda offers insight
into important healing traditions and the overlaps between
expressive culture and healing practices, the human and
other-than-human, and Uganda's past and future.
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