AIDS, politics, and music in South Africa / Fraser G. McNeill.
"This book offers an original anthropological approach to the AIDS epidemic in South Africa by arguing that music is central to understanding how AIDS interventions operate"--Provided by publisher.
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| Superior document: | The international African library ; no. 42 |
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| Year of Publication: | 2011 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | International African library ;
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| Physical Description: | xxv, 278 p. :; ill., maps. |
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Table of Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction: AIDS, politics and music; 2. The battle for Venda kingship; 3. A rite to AIDS education? Venda girls' initiation and HIV prevention; 4. 'We want a job in the government': motivation and mobility in AIDS peer education; 5. 'We sing about what we cannot talk about': biomedical AIDS knowledge in stanza; 6. Guitar songs and 'sexy women': a folk cosmology of AIDS; 7. 'Condoms cause AIDS': poison, prevention, and degrees of separation; 8. Conclusion.