Mbas Mi

Fighting Covid-19 Through Music in Senegal

Datos Bibliográficos

ID2098532
AutoresBabacar Ndiaye (0000-0002-7616-2538), Margaret Rowley
Año2022
Volumen65
Número1
Páginas234-259
Fecha de publicación2022-03-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaAfrican Studies Review (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0002-0206 • E-ISSN: 1555-2462
EditorialCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/asr.2021.115
OpenAlexW4200344056
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas5
Referencias citadas25

In the first two months of the COVID-19 pandemic, Senegalese musicians produced a large body of songs addressing the coronavirus. These songs engage with prophylaxes, symptoms, instructions in case of infection, and metaphysical conceptions about the origin and meaning of the pandemic. These songs are part of a national strategy aimed at containing and eradicating the coronavirus by developing "COVID-literacy": knowledge about the pandemic which is spread through music. In this article, we examine a socio-local history of music's use during health crises, its place in local religious communities, and how its use interlaces linguistic, traditional, and metaphysical tenets

2019-20 coronavirus outbreak · Art · Coronavirus · Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19 · Epistemology · Infectious disease (medical specialty · Literacy · Literature · Meaning (existential · Metaphysics · Pandemic · Pathology · Pedagogy · Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2 · Sociology · Diverse Musicological Studies · History · Medicine · Philosophy · Virology