Music, Culture, and the Politics of Health : Ethnography of a South African AIDS Choir 9781498510110, 9781498510103

This book is an ethnographic study of a HIV/AIDS choir who use music to articulate their individual and collective exper

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Music, Culture, and the Politics of Health : Ethnography of a South African AIDS Choir
9781498510110, 9781498510103

This is a book about the men and women who police contemporary South Africa. Drawing on rich, original ethnographical da

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From the storied ache of mbube harmonies of the '40s to the electronic boom of kwaito and the amapiano and house ex

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The present Reader is a selection of texts on South African music which are chosen not only for their importance or the

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Why do some African states commit more effectively than others to the fight against AIDS? How do power inequalities and

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With more than 40 million people living with HIV/AIDS—and more than 25 million dead from related diseases since the earl

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Before AIDS chronicles the development of gay health services in the 1970s as gay men faced public health challenges ste

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Manthia Diawara provides an insider's account of the history and current status of African cinema. African Cinema:

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In this book, France's leading medical anthropologist takes on one of the most tragic stories of the global AIDS cr

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This book explores the impacts of HIV/AIDS and neoliberal globalization on the occupational health of public sector hosp

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Through their production and consumption of bhangra and Asian Underground music in the late 1990s, British Asian youth c

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