The Culture of AIDS in Africa: Hope and Healing Through Music and the Arts

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INTRODUCTION ; 1. THE CULTURE OF AIDS: HOPE AND HEALING THROUGH THE ARTS IN AFRICA ; GREGORY BARZ AND JUDAH COHEN ; INTERLUDE ; 2. SINGING FOR LIFE: SONGS OF HOPE, HEALING, AND HIV/AIDS IN UGANDA, CD LINER NOTES ; GREGORY BARZ ; PART 1 - REPORTS FROM THE FIELD ; 3. BORN IN AFRICA - TRANSCRIPT ; JOHN ZARITSKY ; 4. TEARS RUN DRY: COPING WITH AIDS THROUGH MUSIC IN ZIMBABWE ; RIC ALVISO ; 5. SINGING IN THE SHADOW OF DEATH: AFRICAN MUSICIANS RESPOND TO A PANDEMIC WITH SONGS OF SORROW, RESISTANCE, ADVOCACY, AND HOPE ; JONAH ELLER-ISAACS ; 6. MUSIC, HIV/AIDS, AND SOCIAL CHANGE IN NAIROBI, KENYA ; KATHLEEN VAN BUREN ; INTERLUDE ; 7. SONG LYRICS FROM NYIMBO ZA EDZI [SONGS ABOUT AIDS] ; JACK ALLISON ; PART 2 - HIV/AIDS AND THE ARTS: FIRST PERSON ; 8. USING MUSIC TO COMBAT AIDS AND OTHER PUBLIC HEALTH ISSUES IN MALAWI ; E. JACKSON ALLISON, JR., LAWRENCE H. BROWN III, SUSAN E. WILSON ; 9. VISUAL APPROACHES TO HIV LITERACY IN SOUTH AFRICA ; ANNABELLE WIENAND ; 10. NGOMA DIALOGUE CIRCLES (NGOMA-DICE): COMBATING HIV/AIDS USING LOCAL AFRICAN

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Gregory Barz is Associate Professor of Ethnomusicology, Graduate Dept. of Religion, and African American Studies at Vanderbilt University. His publications include Singing for Life: Music and HIV/AIDS in Uganda (Routledge, 2005); Performing Religion: Negotiating Past and Present in Kwaya Music of Tanzania (Rodopi, 2003), and Shadows in the Field: New Perspectives for Fieldwork in Ethnomusicology, Second Edition (co-editor with Timothy Cooley, OUP, 2008). Judah Cohen is the Lou and Sybil Mervis Professor of Jewish Culture and Assistant Professor of Jewish Studies and Folklore and Ethnomusicology at Indiana University. He is the author of Through the Sands of Time: A History of the Jewish Community of St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands (Brandeis/University Press of New England, 2004).

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."..must reading for anyone involved in the global fight against HIV/AIDS, a book destined to become both popular and a classic text... Within its pages are precious stories of resilience, courage, and human-dignity-preserved during a crisis unimaginable to the average citizen of the industrialized world, or even to health providers and to artists." - Dr. Clyde Lanford Smith, MD, MPH, DTM&H, FACP, President, Doctors for Global Health
"The central strength of the book is that the subject is meaningful and important to human life, in a word - it matters, which is unfortunately too often not the case." - Benjamin Koen, editor, The Oxford Handbook of Medical Ethnomusicology
"Whether explicitly or by example of their work, the authors of this volume all make impassioned calls for further work. By amplifying the diverse perspectives and
media that shape The Culture of AIDS in Africa, this collection constitutes an outstanding contribution to understanding the impact of music and visual arts on illness and wellness. It will surely impact future directions of medical ethnomusicology, and it should become a useful resource in the arts, humanities, international studies, and allied social sciences." --Journal of Musicological Research