Bonnie McConnell

Music, Health, and Power

Singing the Unsayable in The Gambia

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 178
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Dezember 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 259g
• ISBN-13: 9781032239965
• ISBN-10: 1032239964
• Artikelnr.: 62951517

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

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