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Efforts within the past decade to address the HIV/AIDS pandemic in
sub-Saharan Africa have dealt with HIV/AIDS principally as a
medical concern-despite the fact that doctors continue to be
confronted with the complex relationship of the disease to broader
social issues. When medical and governmental institutions fail,
artists step in. Contemporary performances in Uganda often focus on
gender and health-related issues specific to women and youths, in
which song texts warn against risky sexual environments or
unprotected sexual behavior. Music, dance, and drama are principal
tools of local initiatives that disseminate information, mobilize
resources, and raise societal consciousness regarding issues
related to HIV/AIDS. Through case studies, song texts, interviews,
and testimonies, Singing for Life: HIV/AIDS and Music in Uganda
examines the links between the decline in Uganda's infection rate
and grassroots efforts that make use of music, dance, and drama.
Only when supported and encouraged by such performances drawing on
localized musical traditions have medical initiatives taken root
and flourished in local healthcare systems. Gregory Barz shows how
music can be both a mode of promoting health and a force for
personal therapy, presenting a cultural analysis of hope and
healing.
Efforts within the past decade to address the HIV/AIDS pandemic in
sub-Saharan Africa have dealt with HIV/AIDS principally as a
medical concern-despite the fact that doctors continue to be
confronted with the complex relationship of the disease to broader
social issues. When medical and governmental institutions fail,
artists step in. Contemporary performances in Uganda often focus on
gender and health-related issues specific to women and youths, in
which song texts warn against risky sexual environments or
unprotected sexual behavior. Music, dance, and drama are principal
tools of local initiatives that disseminate information, mobilize
resources, and raise societal consciousness regarding issues
related to HIV/AIDS. Through case studies, song texts, interviews,
and testimonies, Singing for Life: HIV/AIDS and Music in Uganda
examines the links between the decline in Uganda's infection rate
and grassroots efforts that make use of music, dance, and drama.
Only when supported and encouraged by such performances drawing on
localized musical traditions have medical initiatives taken root
and flourished in local healthcare systems. Gregory Barz shows how
music can be both a mode of promoting health and a force for
personal therapy, presenting a cultural analysis of hope and
healing.
Now Edited, In The Original Syriac, From Manuscripts In The British
Museum, With An English Translation And Notes.
Now Edited, In The Original Syriac, From Manuscripts In The British
Museum, With An English Translation And Notes.
Now Edited, In The Original Syriac, From Manuscripts In The British
Museum, With An English Translation And Notes.
Now Edited, In The Original Syriac, From Manuscripts In The British
Museum, With An English Translation And Notes.
Drawing on ethnographic research and often deeply personal
experiences with musical cultures, Queering the Field: Sounding out
Ethnomusicology unpacks a history of sentiment that veils the
treatment of queer music and identity within the field of
ethnomusicology. The thematic structure of the volume reflects a
deliberate cartography of queer spaces in the discipline-spaces
that are strongly present due to their absence, are marked by
direct sonic parameters, or are called into question by virtue of
their otherness. As the first large-scale study of
ethnomusicology's queer silences and queer identity politics,
Queering the Field directly addresses the normativities currently
at play in musical ethnography (fieldwork, analysis, performance,
transcription) as well as in the practice of musical ethnographers
(identification, participation, disclosure, observation,
authority). While rooted in strong narrative convictions, the
authors frequently adopt radicalized voices with the goal of
queering a hierarchical sexual binary. The essays in the volume
present rhetorical and syntactical scenarios that challenge us to
read in prescient singular ways for future queer writing and queer
thought in ethnomusicology.
Medical Ethnomusicology is a new field of integrative and holistic
research and applied practice that approaches music, health, and
healing anew, engaging the biological, psychological, emotional,
social, and spiritual domains of human life that frame and inform
our experiences of health and healing, illness and disease, life
and death. The power of music to create health and healing at the
individual, community, and societal levels is not only linked to
these domains of human life, but is intimately interwoven with the
ever present and multifaceted frame of culture, which is often
where meaning lies, and is a key factor that creates or inhibits
efficacy.
l The Oxford Handbook of Medical Ethnomusicology appeals to all
those interested in music, medicine, and culture, and represents a
new stage of collaborative discourse among researchers and
practitioners who embrace and incorporate knowledge from a
diversity of fields. Importantly, such knowledge, by definition,
spans the globe of traditional cultural practices of music,
spirituality, and medicine, including biomedical, integrative,
complementary, and alternative models; is rooted in new physics,
philosophy, psychology, sociology, cognitive science, linguistics,
medical anthropology, and of course, music, dance, and all the
healing arts.
The book is more than the first collected volume to establish the
discipline of medical ethnomusicology and express its broad
potential; it is also an expression of a wider paradigm shift of
innovative thinking and collaboration that fully embraces both the
health sciences and the healing arts. The authors encourage the
development of this new paradigm through an openness to and
engagement ofknowledge from diverse research areas and domains of
human life conventionally viewed as disparate, yet laden with
potential benefits for an improved or vibrant quality of life,
prevention of illness and disease, even cure and healing.
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.
Medical Ethnomusicology is a new field of integrative and holistic
research and applied practice that approaches music, health, and
healing anew, engaging the biological, psychological, emotional,
social, and spiritual domains of human life that frame and inform
our experiences of health and healing, illness and disease, life
and death. The power of music to create health and healing at the
individual, community, and societal levels is not only linked to
these domains of human life, but is intimately interwoven with the
ever present and multifaceted frame of culture, which is often
where meaning lies, and is a key factor that creates or inhibits
efficacy.
The Oxford Handbook of Medical Ethnomusicology appeals to all those
interested in music, medicine, and culture, and represents a new
stage of collaborative discourse among researchers and
practitioners who embrace and incorporate knowledge from a
diversity of fields. Importantly, such knowledge, by definition,
spans the globe of traditional cultural practices of music,
spirituality, and medicine, including biomedical, integrative,
complementary, and alternative models; is rooted in new physics,
philosophy, psychology, sociology, cognitive science, linguistics,
medical anthropology, and of course, music, dance, and all the
healing arts.
The book is more than the first collected volume to establish the
discipline of medical ethnomusicology and express its broad
potential; it is also an expression of a wider paradigm shift of
innovative thinking and collaboration that fully embraces both the
health sciences and the healing arts. The authors encourage the
development of this new paradigm through an openness to and
engagement of knowledge from diverse research areas and domains of
human life conventionally viewed as disparate, yet laden with
potential benefits for an improved or vibrant quality of life,
prevention of illness and disease, even cure and healing.
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