1. Pulsing bodies and embodying pulse: musical effervescence in a South African HIV/AIDS community outreach program.
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Robert Walker, Gavin
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AIDS treatment ,HIV infections ,BUSINESS management of health facilities ,MATHEMATICAL models ,MUSIC therapy ,ETHNOLOGY research ,COMMUNITY-based social services ,THEORY - Abstract
Early in South Africa's HIV/AIDS crisis, entertainment education emerged as a powerful vehicle for communicating health and social messaging to combat the epidemic. Applied theatre now accounts for the majority of arts-based HIV interventions in sub-Saharan Africa, and continues a history of theatre for social change in South Africa in particular. While much has been written about the dramaturgical and communication theories that support such interventions, the role of music, a formidable tool in the applied theatre intervention arsenal, has received considerably less attention within applied arts intervention scholarship. This paper draws from Durkheim's collective effervescence to propose a theoretical approach to music within the creation and maintenance of effervescent assemblies that is being employed by HIV/AIDS interventions to encourage participation in HIV testing. The theoretical model of musical effervescence is situated within ethnographic fieldwork conducted while accompanying an applied HIV/AIDS theatre company on a national tour of South Africa. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2022
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