Music, Health, and Power: Singing the Unsayable in the Gambia

ISBN-13: 9781032239965 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 178 str.

Bonnie McConnell

Opis

Music, Health, and Power offers an original, on-the-ground analysis of the role that music plays in promoting healthy communities. The book brings the reader inside the world of kanyeleng fertility societies and HIV/AIDS support groups, where women use music to leverage stigma and marginality into new forms of power.

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CONTENTS

Acknowledgements List of Figures Recorded Selections on the Accompanying Website List of Abbreviations Orthography and Pronunciation 1. Introduction: Music, Health, and Power 2. Women’s Power: Gender, Islam, and Health Performance in The Gambia 3. Singing Teriyaa: Life, Death, and HIV-Stigma 4. "Let’s Insult the Soldier’s Mother": Performative License and Communication  5. When Money Dances: Songs of Health and Wealth 6. Stealing Power: Embodiment and Participation in Kanyeleng Performance 7. "Touch the Drum and They Will Come": Music, Tradition and Communication 8. Beginnings and Endings

 

O autorze

Bonnie B. McConnell is a lecturer in the School of Music at the Australian National University.