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

Gregory Barz, Judah M. Cohen, "The Culture of AIDS in Africa: Hope and Healing Through Music and the Arts"
English | 2011 | pages: 519 | ISBN: 0199744475 | PDF | 3,7 mb
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.