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AIDS, politics, and music in South Africa / Fraser G. McNeill.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: International African library ; no. 42Publication details: New York : Cambridge University Press, 2011.Description: xxv, 278 p. : ill, maps ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9781107009912 (hardback)
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • RA643.86. MCN 2011
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.
Summary: "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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Books Books City Campus Library General Stacks City Campus Library Non-fiction RA643.86 MCN 2011 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) c. 1 Available 000282
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 251-271) and index.

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.

"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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