Shows how music, dance, drama, and the visual arts have been enlisted in the fight against AIDS in East Africa - from education to prevention and treatment. This book shows how musical traditions have the power to both spread needed information and influence social behaviour and presents a cultural analysis of hope and healing.

Foreword by Jim Wooten, Acknowledgments, Acronyms Used in the Text, Recorded Selections on the Compact Disc, List of Figures, Orthography, Prelude: “Those Who Do Not Listen to Our Songs and Change Their Behavior Will Land in Problems”, Introduction: “Music Is Taken as a Medicine”: Singing for Life in a Time of AIDS, Chapter 1: HIV/AIDS, Jackfruit, and Banana Weevils: Music and Medical Interventions in Uganda, Interlude 1: Florence Kumunhyu’s Testimony, Chapter 2: “What You Sing Nourishes Your Body Like Food”, Interlude 2: “Our Problems Are Bigger than AIDS”: A Conversation with Dr. Alex Muganzi Muganga, Chapter 3: “No One Will Listen to Us Unless We Bring Our Drums!”: AIDS and Women’s Music Performance in Uganda, Interlude 3: “Stick to One Person”: Nawaikoke Village Women’s Ensemble, Chapter 4: “Today We Have Naming of Parts”: Languaging AIDS Through Music, Interlude 4: Excerpts from an Interview with the Bukato Youth Fellowship, Chapter 5: “Singing in a Language AIDS Can Hear”: Music, AIDS, and Religion, Interlude 5: Conversation with Faustus Baziri, Chapter 6: Re-Memorying Memory: HIV/AIDS and the Performance of Cultural Memory, Interlude 6: TASO Drama Group Testimonies, Conclusion: “Getting the Message Across Without Music Is Sometimes Shaky”, Afterword, Appendix, Notes, Works Cited, Index

'...he investigates how song texts refer to HIV/AIDS, and how women suffering from HIV/AIDS have become empowered through their music, dance and drama presentations...an excellent book that should be read by medical professionals, social workers and musicologists.'Lois Ann Anderson, University of Wisconsin-Madison