AIDS, Politics, and Music in South Africa

Contents

• 1. Introduction: AIDS, politics and music;
• 2. The battle for Venda kingship;
• 3. A rite to AIDS education? Venda girls' initiation and HIV prevention;
• 4. 'We want a job in the government': motivation and mobility in AIDS peer education;
• 5. 'We sing about what we cannot talk about': biomedical AIDS knowledge in stanza;
• 6. Guitar songs and 'sexy women': a folk cosmology of AIDS;
• 7. 'Condoms cause AIDS': poison, prevention, and degrees of separation;
• 8. Conclusion.