Music, Culture, and the Politics of Health

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Music, Culture, and the Politics of Health is written by Austin C. Okigbo and published by Bloomsbury Publishing PLC. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1498510116 (ISBN 10) and 9781498510110 (ISBN 13).

This book is an ethnographic study of a HIV/AIDS choir who use music to articulate their individual and collective experiences of the disease. The study interrogates as to understand the bigger picture of HIV/AIDS using the approach of microanalysis of music event. It places the choir, and the cultural and political issues addressed in their music in the broader context of South Africa’s public health and political history, and the global culture and politics of AIDS.